{"product_id":"9781566891141","title":"Earliest Worlds: Two Books by Eleni Sikelianos","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis impressive debut of a major new voice in poetry begins with \u003ci\u003eBlue Guide\u003c\/i\u003e, a poem cycle of meditations on light and dark, probing the opposing\/complementary nature of these universal principles and their manifestation through words. In \u003ci\u003eOf Sun, Of History, Of Seeing\u003c\/i\u003e, the oracular power of language fuels the journey between constellations shimmering above and the mind shimmering in response below, between phenomenology and phenomena.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe author of five chapbooks, \u003cb\u003eEleni Sikelianos\u003c\/b\u003e has won a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and the Gertrude Stein Award for Innovative American Writing. Her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eGrand Street, Chicago Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSulfur.\u003c\/i\u003e She lives in New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlue Guide\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eContents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e[It is not enough that], 15\u003cbr\u003e Matter has been Blown off the Surface, 16\u003cbr\u003e The Stone I was Bothering, 17\u003cbr\u003e [Dear Flaubert], 19\u003cbr\u003e The Most Beautiful Theorems, 20\u003cbr\u003e Everyone in the Country's got a Clubfoot, 22\u003cbr\u003e [As a child], 23\u003cbr\u003e Chapters: of I Define the Darkness Correct, 24\u003cbr\u003e [Again, several years passed], 36\u003cbr\u003e Book of Tributes: Cosmorama, 37\u003cbr\u003e Lights, 38\u003cbr\u003e [Fresh from the latitudes], 39\u003cbr\u003e The Typical Hand, 40\u003cbr\u003e [This, (my) brain-truck], 42\u003cbr\u003e [Most of my life], 43\u003cbr\u003e Thus, Speak the Chromograph, 44\u003cbr\u003e [Polar citadel], 47\u003cbr\u003e City between cycles of light, 48\u003cbr\u003e [Now the bells have begun], 50\u003cbr\u003e [I always took shadow for shelter], 51\u003cbr\u003e [The devil was known for], 52\u003cbr\u003e Worn like a corsage, 53\u003cbr\u003e O quanta qualia suntilla sabbatta, 55\u003cbr\u003e [Here is a story], 56\u003cbr\u003e [You can be King of the Corners], 57\u003cbr\u003e The brambles of cavalry (Quamash), 58\u003cbr\u003e The Secret Life of J.K. Huysmans \/ parataxis, 62\u003cbr\u003e [I will soon make my animal tears], 63\u003cbr\u003e Chapters: Touching the Original Matter, 64\u003cbr\u003e Campo santo, , 73\u003cbr\u003e [Someone is sewing next to me], 74\u003cbr\u003e The decameron, 75\u003cbr\u003e Of the True Human Fold, 77\u003cbr\u003e [They are chasing me home again], 78\u003cbr\u003e \"The birds are at their highest thoughts of leaving\", 79\u003cbr\u003e [Here we are on the place St. Sulpice], 80\u003cbr\u003e The well-tempered clavicle, 81\u003cbr\u003e [When the things was a?re], 82\u003cbr\u003e The river's which river's why, 83\u003cbr\u003e [As a result, some astronomers], 85\u003cbr\u003e Under\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Coffee House Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47017861480688,"sku":"9781566891141","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781566891141_p0.jpg?v=1763773125","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781566891141","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}