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    Incantations: poems
    Incantations: poems
    Incantations: poems
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    Incantations: poems

    By Darnell Arnoult

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    Out of grief, upheaval, derision, disappointment, and change of all kinds—from the intimate to the mythic—Incantations both admonishes and rails. Darnell Arnoult's evocative collection unleashes frustration and longing in tongues of fire. And while her poems walk heaven’s blues home in a rush of images, real and imagined, they point to an undergirding optimism and path toward healing and hope where joy lies “dazed and waiting.” The spells cast here are beyond magic, beyond human—no less than urgent, no more than what’s necessary to begin again.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMadville Publishing
    Release dateMar 19, 2024
    ISBN9781956440782
    Incantations: poems
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    Darnell Arnoult

    Darnell Arnoult is the author of the novel Sufficient Grace (Simon & Schuster) and two poetry collections, What Travels With Us and Galaxie Wagon (LSU Press), with shorter works in journals and anthologies. She has received the SIBA Poetry Book of the Year Prize, the Weatherford Award, the Thomas and Lillie D. Chaffin Award, and the Mary Frances Hobson Award in Arts and Letters and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She lives with her family in Mebane, NC. For more about Darnell and her workshops, visit darnellarnoult.net.

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      Incantations - Darnell Arnoult

      Also by Darnell Arnoult:

      Galaxie Wagon: Poems (LSU Press 2016)

      What Travels With Us: Poems (LSU Press 2005)

      Sufficient Grace: A Novel (Atria 2007)

      Copyright © 2024 by Darnell Arnoult

      All rights reserved

      Printed in the United States of America

      FIRST EDITION

      Requests for permission to reprint or reuse material from this work should be sent to:

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      Madville Publishing

      PO Box 358

      Lake Dallas, TX 75065

      Cover Design: Kim Davis

      Author Photo: Danny Vaughn

      ISBN: 978-1-956440-77-5 paperback

      978-1-956440-78-2 ebook

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2023947056

      For Bryson Joseph Brock

      and for Denton Loving

      Contents

      I.

      Knowing

      Sight

      Beneath Love

      Embodiment

      Morning

      Memory

      Gazing Out

      II.

      Runners

      High Office

      Legend

      View from Space

      Struggle

      Land Futures

      Reincarnation

      Upheaval

      Intone

      Profit

      Exodus Creek

      Mothy Night

      Hammering Gently

      Liturgy

      Invention

      III.

      Barn Star

      No One Owns Him

      Hero (Or Out in the Weeds)

      Salvage

      Reclamation

      This Too Is Creation

      Highline

      Love Fever

      Like Angels

      IV.

      Hunt

      What We Know

      Passing

      Misdirection

      Malady

      Prayer

      Motion

      Night Wars

      Evolution Sonnet

      V.

      To Remain Open

      Pickup

      Widowhood

      Sorrow

      Storm

      Rebirth

      Engine

      Rebirth II

      New Life

      Flood

      VI.

      Exist

      Architecture

      Immortality

      Look Up

      Voice Lessons

      Assault

      Invention II

      Purpose of Art

      Daylight

      Rapture

      Work

      Acknowledgments

      About the Author

      Imagination, then, must be the flip

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