False Horizon [Paperback]

The lyrics in Sue Standings False Horizon quietly celebrate the lust that is living, the lust that is memory. These poems, some of which are set in the far reaches of Africa and India, argue for the primacy of the present tense, a present tense that shines erotically out from under the beautiful drapery of a manifold rich and cultural world history. Therefore, False Horizons is a book full of sensations. Standing writes a wonderfully understated poetry about the intimacies of experience. She says, I need a life that wont diminish.

SUE STANDING's previous books of poetry include Amphibious Weather, Deception Pass, and Gravida. She is the recipient of several grants, including residencies from Hawthornden Castle, the MacDowell Colony, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Corporation of Yaddo, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College. She is Professor of English at Wheaton College (Norton, Massachusetts), where she directs the Creative Writing program.

I. Palimpsest 5 Mouvance 7 Island Horizon 8 The Map 9 Artificial Horizon 10 Sexual Horizon 11 Accidental 12 The Aviary 13 Life List 14 Tour d'Horizon 15 Surburban Horizon 16 Untranslated 17 Amor Fati 18 In the Forum 19 Sicilian Vespers 20 II. Event Horizon 23 The Art of Swimming 24 Solitaire 26 Five Riddles 28 Lapses 30 The Good Life 31 Shrine 32 Urban Horizon 33 Invisible Horizon 34 Urban Thrush 35 Hummingbird 36 View 37 Water Garden 38 Late Summer Elegy 39 Yashoda and Krishna 40 Solstice Blue Mountain Lake 41 Permissive Path 42 November Horizon 43 Flesh Dress 44 Water Level 45 Blazon 46 Flamboyan 47 III. Carpe Diem 51 Alba 53 Montpeyroux 54 Above Taull 56 Our Lady of the Assumption 57 Cloister 58 Bounded 60 False Horizon 62 The Village 63 The Horizon of Inexhaustible Ideality 70 Acknowledgements 72