Not even then poems - Blanchfield, Brian (University of California Press, 2004)
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; One First Try and Then Another; WEREMEN; Thirteen Point Three Three; Letter to a Silvery Mime in Yellow; Ferdinand, the Prize; Red Habits; The Weremen; Two Moons; Borrowing a Page from Nature; Refinery; If the Blank Outcome in Dominoes Adds a Seventh Side to Dice; The Next Landing; Chercher; From the Selected Burned Letters; ISLAND EQUIDISTANT; The Same Question; Propeller or Chime; Code Orange under Love, Part I; 24-Hour Window; Infraction; The Endowment Becoming Less an Institution; Not of the Heritage Softtail Series; Blanch Whiteface to Face
Comeuppance Has HatchesPipe Dream of a Deputy Best Friend; Newfoundland and Labrador; To Come True a Thing Must Come Second; Answer Day; Comfort Proviso with Shadow; Chances at Kill Devil Hills; KILL DEVIL HILLS; The Earliest Work of Literary Criticism; There Are Five Deacons; String Theory Readymade; Receipt; A Whole Host; Littleness of Being; Even Funnier than Pretending to Do It Is Actually Doing It; Velma; The Matter, with Abjection; Less and Less That Is Not a Hotel Anymore; Aerozona Water Letter; Photograph of without Reference To; The Discoverer of Pluto; The Living Many Go Down One
Not Even Then, the debut collection by Brian Blanchfield, introduces a poetry both compressed and musically fluid, beseechingly intimate and oddly authoritative. Blanchfield conducts readers through a unique, theatrical realm where concepts and personages are enlivened into action: Continuity, Coincidence, Symmetry, and Shame keep uneasy company there with Marcel Duchamp and Johnny Weissmuller, Lord Alfred Douglas and ""Blue Boy"" Master Lambton, Juliet's Nurse and Althusser's Moses. With its kinked and suspensive language, Not Even Then draws on the lyric tradition, even as it complicates that