Before Recollection

From Before Recollection:
TRANSCENDENTAL POSTCARD
Ann Lauterbach

The outlook such that time is told on waking,
Without aid of cock or clock's crow.
In fact all the birds are elsewhere,
Poised on glossy page or in some fall
Migration. Sun up over mountain is precision,
Then mist travels, exhaling day.
All else, all change, is air,
Dew relenting on the blades
And mirror rhymes
Where water bears resemblance:
A strut of hues to pale even Revlon's alchemy and,
In the center of its glaze, a cauldron of sky-cast blue.

About the author

Ann Lauterbach

Summary

Before Recollection.

Additional text

"Lauterbach's philosophical poems are concerned with the naming of things, with our perception of emotions, ideas, and objects. . . . [a] small, memorable collection. . ."

Product details

• Authors: Ann Lauterbach
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.02.1987
• EAN: 9780691014371
• ISBN: 978-0-691-01437-1
• No. of pages: 90
• Series: Princeton Series of Contempora; Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies; USA, POETRY / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, American English, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Poetry by individual poets, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: poetry and poets