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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Robert VivianPublisher: University of Nebraska Press Imprint: University of Nebraska Press ISBN: 9781496220332ISBN 10: 1496220331 Pages: 126 Publication Date: 01 March 2020 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments How Precious Still Even Then All the Rivers of My Days Yes Soul Ink Water Is My Name Other Darks O After O Bell To Beg Mercy of a Shadow I Who Wake Beside You Ordering a Book of Poems Dear Syllables Fish Me Let a Poem Plea Because of What My Brother Told Me Any Word Bright Windowsill the Wondering Another Kind of Waking Dovelike Essay Transparent Almost to Midnight The Woman in Me Even If Dithyramb Essay as the World’s Worst Jeweler Maybe Fall to My Knees I Write With the River How Shall I Owl the Sound Bring the River Pen The Waft-Away World Light Upon Lightly A Kind of Inner Russia Because There Are Ghosts Come Earthward Essay by the Black Sea Gobsmack Essay Ink of River Keeper Bees Letter to Neruda Mother Forever Play Read to You Somewhere a Siren Some Kind of Holiness When Water This Earth Tell Me Flower The Most Woke So Wild Beloved Gaze of a Child All I Feel Is Rivers God-Husks Becoming Less SoReviewsThe dervish dance spins us, via Vivian, into yes. Yes to the world. Yes to joy. Yeses as homages to what brings us peace: rain, rivers, vodka, Mandelstam. Yes to the letter O. Yes to sorrow too, and oh yes, to 'this book of flesh turned on its back . . . to gaze up . . . stars wheeling in the wake of so much dark silence.' -Nance Van Winckel, author of Our Foreigner -- Nance Van Winckel There is a wild innocence in Vivian's headlong rush to get the language right, but don't be fooled. These are words spoken by a man who has seen the whole spectrum and who chooses-is it even choice?-to be immersed and re-watered again and again, to make each sentence feel like class V rapids through which we readers, boatless but safe, feel transported, not just from one place to another but from one realm to another. These essays are an exhilarating achievement. -Barbara Hurd, author of Listening to the Savage: River Notes and Half-Heard Melodies -- Barbara Hurd This is the work of a Sufi master of rapturous prose, who dances until his feet do not touch the ground. -David Wojahn, author of From the Valley of Making: Essays on the Craft of Poetry -- David Wojahn Line by line, image by image, essay by spiraling essay, Vivian awakens us to the grace of the infinite moment: the shaft of morning light, the teaspoon of honey, the spider on the north-facing wall. All I Feel Is Rivers is a wondrous, transcendent book. Let its currents take you. -Harrison Candelaria Fletcher, author of Presentimiento: A Life in Dreams -- Harrison Candelaria Fletcher The dervish dance spins us, via Vivian, into yes. Yes to the world. Yes to joy. Yeses as homages to what brings us peace: rain, rivers, vodka, Mandelstam. Yes to the letter O. Yes to sorrow too, and oh yes, to 'this book of flesh turned on its back . . . to gaze up . . . stars wheeling in the wake of so much dark silence.' -Nance Van Winckel, author of Our Foreigner -- Nance Van Winckel There is a wild innocence in Vivian's headlong rush to get the language right, but don't be fooled. These are words spoken by a man who has seen the whole spectrum and who chooses-is it even choice?-to be immersed and re-watered again and again, to make each sentence feel like class V rapids through which we readers, boatless but safe, feel transported, not just from one place to another but from one realm to another. These essays are an exhilarating achievement. -Barbara Hurd, author of Listening to the Savage: River Notes and Half-Heard Melodies -- Barbara Hurd This is the work of a Sufi master of rapturous prose, who dances until his feet do not touch the ground. -David Wojahn, author of From the Valley of Making: Essays on the Craft of Poetry -- David Wojahn Line by line, image by image, essay by spiraling essay, Vivian awakens us to the grace of the infinite moment: the shaft of morning light, the teaspoon of honey, the spider on the north-facing wall. All I Feel Is Rivers is a wondrous, transcendent book. Let its currents take you. -Harrison Candelaria Fletcher, author of Presentimiento: A Life in Dreams -- Harrison Candelaria Fletcher Author InformationRobert Vivian is a professor of English and creative writing at Alma College in Michigan and teaches as a core faculty member in the low-residency MFA program at the Vermont College of Fine Arts. He is the author of four novels as well as two essay collections, Cold Snap as Yearning and The Least Cricket of Evening, all available from the University of Nebraska Press, as well as the collection of dervish essays, Immortal Soft-Spoken. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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