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Imago

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An exuberant collection of poems celebrating art, nature, and humanity. This various and vital poetry collection, in rich language and sharp detail, spans the rural and urban, country and town, and foreign and domestic. Tracing the vagaries of the self, these poems record and transmute biography from an English youth to the trials and challenges of aging in America. Memorable for its exuberant voice and exacting eye, Brian Swann's Imago is awake to the natural world as well as the world within. From the half-page title poem to the multi-section "Elegiac," this volume is striking in its largeness, its tone evolving from self-indicting to ecstatic and self-transcendent. This collection, the author's fourteenth, is moving both as art and as testament. Imago unfolds much like a piece of music. It is a continuum by which Swann sees nature and art interwoven in the ways they emerge and change. In "Grief and Magritte," Swann muses upon "all of us snagged in a net whose skeins tangle in night sky / where one star dreams another." The title poem focuses on an insect "on its way through the changes, the patterns / of what led up to it, the catches and releases . . . saying now, and now" till "splitting down the back" such changes "release what was always there." Brian Swann's poems, moving in their candor, read as though they have always been there, too.
Brian Swann teaches at Cooper Union. He is the author, editor, or translator of more than 50 books and 14 poetry collections, including In Late Light and Sunday Out of Nowhere: New and Selected Poems.
Proem Locus History Composed Pulses Them Telegraph Wires Three Mallards The Feather Tropical Fish I. The Garden Running Nationalism The Basil on the Sill Bach in the Garden Skunk Pastoral Sonnet of Intimacy Shopping for Snacks The Moon Bridge at Ch'ien A Bird The Garden II: Elegiac The Screen Door Making Sense Jokes The Code The Silence Elegiac Eternity Grief and Magritte The Dog Death The Same in All Directions William Blake and Space Travel Theater Light III: Turtle Moon Bats Serenade The Passion Churchyard Why As With a Child's Eye North Silence Butterfly Imago The Wind's A Sleeping Rock Turtle Moon Notes on the Poems Acknowledgments
An exuberant collection of poems celebrating art, nature, and humanity.
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