Between the Twilight and the Sky. Jennie Neighbors
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Free Verse Editions
Edited by Jon Thompson
2008
Quarry by Carolyn Guinzio
Between the Twilight and the Sky by Jennie Neighbors
The Prison Poems by Miguel Hernández,
translated by Michael Smith
remanence by Boyer Rickel
What Stillness Illuminated by Yermiyahu Ahron Taub
2007
Child in the Road by Cindy Savett
Verge by Morgan Lucas Schuldt
The Flying House by Dawn-Michelle Baude
2006
Physis by Nicolas Pesque, translated by Cole Swensen
Puppet Wardrobe by Daniel Tiffany
These Beautiful Limits by Thomas Lisk
The Wash by Adam Clay
2005
A Map of Faring by Peter Riley
Signs Following by Ger Killeen
Winter Journey [Viaggio d’inverno] by Attilio Bertolucci,
translated by Nicholas Benson
Between the Twilight and the Sky
Jennie Neighbors
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Neighbors, Jennie.
Between the twilight and the sky / Jennie Neighbors.
p. cm. -- (Free verse editions)
ISBN 978-1-60235-087-8 (pbk. : acid-free paper) -- ISBN 978-1-60235-088-5 (adobe ebook)
I. Title.
PS3614.E4425B48 2008
811’.6--dc22
2008041922
Epigraph: “De moment en moment” by René Char in Le Bâton de rosier. Editions Gallimard, Paris. Used by permission of Marie-Claude Char.
Author photograph by Jim Neighbors. Used by permission.
Cover photograph “Signor Farini—Rope Ascension” © 1859, Filing #D417685, Niagara Falls Heritage Foundation Collection. Used by permission.
Printed on acid-free paper.
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for Jim and Esten
Contents
Canto I: By Virtue of Stubborn Life
Three Towns and an Abstract Universal
Canto II: Between Death and Beauty
Precisely In its Failure, Language Succeeds