They Are Sleeping: Poems

InThey Are Sleeping, Joanna Klink tests the limits of solitude, setting her poems in places where our grip on "self" is loosened and blurred--caves, coastlines, rooms in cities. As her poems lead us through these sometimes beautiful, sometimes appalling internal landscapes, characters like the Hanged Man and the Lady of Situations reappear, often locked in misunderstanding but compelling us toward a more fragile and expansive sense of self.

Joanna Klink teaches at the University of Montana at Missoula. Her poems have appeared in the Antioch Review, Boston Review, Colorado Review, Verse, and Prairie Schooner.

Acknowledgments

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Creatio Ex Nihilo

1

(4)

Terre a Terre

5

(1)

Adam Sleeping

6

(2)

The Lady of Situations

8

(2)

The Ocean Room

10

(1)

The Book of Black Hills

11

(4)

Scrutiny

15

(2)

Vegas

17

(1)

Orpheus. Eurydice. Hermes

18

(4)

Spare

22

(1)

Monde, Demimonde

23

(8)

Steps out from the metallic shadows

24

(1)

And O they are beautiful

25

(1)

He feels tiny bones

26

(1)

Le Pendu is delighted, prepared

27

(1)

Perhaps la Papesse. Terracotta

28

(1)

Pendu stirs, raises a voice

29

(1)

I could not accept

30

(1)

From the Wicked Tarot Pack

31

(4)

Generation

35

(4)

Aubade

39

(1)

Aubade

40

(1)

Aubade

41

(1)

Aubade

42

(1)

Aubade

43

(1)

Aubade

44

(2)

Aubade

46

(1)

This Particular Eden

47

(2)

Landscape Without Particulars

49

(5)

All terror to the ones who live alone

49

(1)

Whether I wait for the arrangement

50

(1)

Five bicycles toward the sea

51

(1)

Overcast, issuing into fluorescence

52

(1)

In the rooms a wind is easing

53

(1)

Plein-Air

54

(2)

Summer Elegy

56

(1)

Occam's Razor

57

(2)

Rue De Paris, Temps De Pluie

59

(4)

Darker City (Solea)

63

(5)

Sleep in your head because the thought

63

(1)

It appears as damask, shadow dragging sky

64

(1)

And what has come to take its place

65

(1)

Quarrel, I said

66

(1)

I saw you once, white

67

(1)

The High Rooms

68

(5)

Notes

73

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