If in Time: Selected Poems 1975-2000 [Paperback]

Ann Lauterbach is one of America's most inventive and admired poets. Since the mid-1970s, she has explored the ways in which language simultaneously captures and forfeits our experience. By turns elegiac, fierce, and sensuous, her musically-charged poems subvert distinctions between narrative coherence and fragmentary elision, between outward attention and inward response. Throughout, Lauterbach questions the hope for personal agency within proliferating fields of cultural and historical event. If In Time brings together selections from each of her first five collections, as well as an exhilarating group of new poems.If in TimeThe Call (1997-2000)
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September Song
Typography
Diorama of the Uninhabited Yes
Walk
Legacy
New Brooms
Winter Strawberries
Narcolepsy
The Call
The Same Moon
Splendor
Snow
Interleavings (Paul Celan)
A Novelist Speaks (Don DeLillo)
Invoice
C Is Forgiving
Frayed Edges
Freesia Errata Slip

from On A Stair (1996)
Invocation
On (Word)
On (Thing)
On (Dream)
A Clown,Some Colors, A Doll, Her Stories, A Song, A Moonlit Cove
Nocturnal Real
A Valentine for Tomorrow
Staircase
Daylight Savings Time
Blake's Lagoon
Night Barrier
Poise on Row
Sequence with Dream Objects in Real Time
Free Fall
And the Question Of
Poem with Last Line from Epictetus

from And For Example (1994)
The Prior
Rancor of the Empirical
The Untelling
Eclipse with Object
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