by
David Woo
New
Poets of America Series
Winner
of the 3rd Anuual A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize
David
Woo's The Eclipses was selected by judge Michael S.
Harper from over 700 manuscripts as winner of the 2003 A. Poulin,
Jr. Poetry Prize contest. The artful remembrances of this
first collection weave together memory, woe, mourning and, ultimately,
transcendence in luminous detail. Ancestors, both literary
and blood, are called forth as Woo struggles beyond his mother's
death toward his own heart-intelligent truths. "David
Woo's first book of poems is eloquent, poignant, superbly wrought.
Like the major poet Henri Cole, Woo has achieved a fresh, highly
individual imaginative language in the American modes of Wallace
Stevens and Hart Crane. The title poem and the beautiful
transposition of Hofmannsthal in "Ballad of Infinite Forgetfulness"
have an aura of permanence about them."
--Harold
Bloom
The
Eye
Afterecho of sirens, a sliding-glass door, curtains
parting, the dark-green room with the white bed,
the tiny spot of blood on the useless tube
in her throat. Eyes closed; we never closed them
for her. “Sleep is sleep,” she’d scoff, which
meant
death was not a dozing lamb. And yet I opened
one lid to expose a dead eye, empty and glassen
as the sweet beast’s gaze. I wanted one last look in,
but it didn’t stay open. Something, not my touch,
closed it for her again, something, mere inertia,
reflex of the orbicular oculi, something that defied
the solace of metaphor, the succor of half-truths
she taught us to resist, like the words I uttered
to console my father: “She wants to stay asleep.”
Available editions:
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ISBN: 1-929918-61-5
Price: $14.95
Publishing Date: April 2005
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Ltd. would like to thank the following generous Publishing Partners
for their support of The Eclipses:
Jan
& Larry Alder
Alan
& Nancy Cameros
Bradley
P. & Debra Kang Dean
Michael
& Izuru Delgado
Suzanne
& Peter Durant
Dr.
Henry & Beverly French
Dane
& Judy Gordon
Kip
& Deb Hale
William
B. Hauser
Peter
& Rob in Hursh
Rob
ert & Willy Hursh
Archie
& Pat Kutz
Rosemary
& Lew Lloyd
Patti
& Barry MacNaughton
Dr. Glenn & Jennie Pang
Boo
Poulin
Deborah
Ronnen
Annette
& Aaron Satloff
Ben & Joyce Tom
Hugh & Trudy Tom
The Lilli Tom Family
Roy Tom & Kathy Ikeda
Paul
Tortorella
Salvatore
Troia
Thomas
R. Ward
Donald
H. Woo, Sr.
Mr. & Mrs. Donald H. Woo, Jr. & Family
Jack & Joyce Woo
Thomas & Sara Woo
Elaine
Yee & Jeff Emmack
Peggy
& Chimey Zarotsang
The Zarotsang Family ( U.S.A. and Nepal )
Pat
& Michael Wilder
