Taking Dante and other catalogers of failure and ruin (Baudelaire, Trakl, Rimbaud) as its guiding lights, Scarecrow charts situations of extremity and madness: ‘Are you / insistent? Are you dead? / Are you guilty? Has your / name been lifted, a vein / of earth from earth?’ It also charts the insistence of time’s passing and with it the awakening to both new and foreclosed possibilities. What will remain for us after the disaster? How will we rebuild? To whom will we address ourselves and with what voice? Also a love poem, one of desire and hope, Scarecrow aligns a tragic sensibility with a faith in the other and in the redemptive power of forgiveness. Within the beauty and strangeness of this work rests an imperative that captures the directive of poetry at its best: ‘Present yourself / in the full radiance of captivation.’ In its mystery and defiance, Robert Fernandez’s collection does precisely this. An online reader’s companion will be available at robertfernandezsite.wesleyan.edu.
Table des matières
Scarecrow
When for a Moment
It Would Be Better If You Tasted Rain
We Adorn
If I Offend You with My Leniency
The Dauphin
A Vein of Earth
After Antonioni’s La Notte
Pack
Lost Time
Sing Again
Rogue Estates
Your Loves Travel and Stand
Bantams
And
So Strange Arrangements
All the Deadly Ones
The Dog
The Ground Beneath
The Leaning
Flags
Full Day
Ad Absurdum
Bruckner Grew Up among Weevils
Dayrun
Those You Live Among
In Winter with Starred Standards
The Blood Desires Nakedness of Every Sort
Crowns
Then from the Bronze World
Vincent
Of Listening and Patient Work
How Could I Have Clipped So Near
They Remember My Name
What Tree Does Give
We Are Elsewhere
Who Makes a Chorus of You Here
Tasso
Fêtes
You Are Not Here
We Challenge
Where You Hunt, Your Blood Goes Cold
Softly the Day Stands
I Want to Die Better
Which Chatters Beauty
Every Horned Wayfarer
Thanatos
Again
Acknowledgments
A propos de l’auteur
Robert Fernandez is the author of We Are Pharaoh, Pink Reef, Scarecrow and the co-translator of Stéphane Mallarmé’s poetry for the collection Azure: Poems and Selections from the ‘Livre.’ Selected as a New American Poet by the Poetry Society of America, Fernandez has won a Gertrude Stein Award for Innovative Poetry and a grant from the Andrew W. mellon Foundation. In 2006, he founded, with Mary Hickman, the chapbook press Cosa Nostra Editions. He lives in Lincoln, Nebraska.
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