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Kathleen Graber teaches in the Creative Writing Program at Virginia Commonwealth University. Her poems have appeared in the New Yorker and the American Poetry Review, among other publications, and her first collection, Correspondence, was published in 2006.
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Correspondence - Kathleen Graber
Correspondence
Copyright 2005 © Kathleen Graber
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Acknowledgments from Kathleen Graber:
I would like to acknowledge the following journals in which several poems first appeared: Ploughshares, Green Mountains Review, The Hudson Review, Washington Square, Bucks County Review, Tiferet, Arts & Letters, and Dragonfire.
I am grateful to the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and the Rona Jaffe Foundation for their generous support.
I have many people to thank, beginning with Bob Hicok, and Henry Israeli and Joanna Goodman at Saturnalia Books, and Rosamond Purcell, who so generously provided the photograph that appears on the cover. I owe an enormous debt to the writing communities at New York University. The poets who were my classmates in the Creative Writing Program—Kazim Ali, Adam Day, K. Dimma, Brian McDonald, Jason Schniederman, and Adam Williams—have been unwavering in their support and exceptionally generous with their feedback. I want to thank our director and tireless advocate, Melissa Hammerle, for her deep kindness and encouragement. My teachers, at NYU and elsewhere, have been amazing poets and exemplary human beings: Renee Ashley, Stephen Dunn, Galway Kinnell, Peter Murphy, and Tom Sleigh. I feel profoundly fortunate to teach in NYU’s Expository Writing Program, and I want to thank Pat Hoy, a writer and thinker from whom I have learned so much. I want especially to thank Mark Doty for not only his consistently intelligent insights but also for his abiding optimism and unshakable belief in me. My deep thanks also to Paul Lisicky for his warm and truly delightful friendship. My thanks to Aaron Balkan, Ciaran Berry and Anthony Carelli, Barbara Daniels, and Elinor Mattern for the careful attention that they have brought to every poem I’ve ever shown them. Every writer imagines an ideal reader. My deepest thanks to Matt Donovan for having been all that that implies, incredibly patient, smart, honest, and inspiring.
Finally, to my family—Joan and Len, Francis and, Elizabeth, Erin and Colleen—and my dear friend Frank Smigiel—for their ongoing support. And beneath even this, to my husband Larry, whose steadiness and love have made this book possible.
For the dead—
Bud and Eileen Kalafski
Edward Kalafski
Len and Angelina Klaus
Margaret Henderson
Perhaps the most deeply hidden motive of the person who collects can be described this way: he takes up the struggle against dispersion. Right from the start, the great collector is struck by the confusion, by the scatter, in which the things of the world are found.
Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector’s passion borders on the chaos of memories.
-Walter Benjamin
Contents
I.
Between Laurelton and Locust Manor
Terra Incognita
Romantic Museum
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
After a Student, 15, Declares He Will Renounce the World for God
The Letters: A Mnemonic for Forgetting
L is for Laburnum
II.
The Off Season
Equivalent Difference
The Language of Bees
Oracle, With Lines from Montale’s "La Farandola
Dei Fanciulli"
The Letters: A Mnemonic for Forgetting
E is for Elegies, or Enough to be Counted
III.
Anniversary
Mysterium Cosmographicum
Physics
Das Passagen-Werk
The Letters: A Mnemonic for