The Cabinetmaker's Window: Poems

✍ Scribed by Scafidi, Steve

• Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 40 KB
• Category: Fiction
• City: Baton Rouge
• ISBN: 0807154520

✦ Synopsis

"This poet engages life on multiple levels--not complacent in the presence of suffering and not ignoring injustice, but open to the possibilities of grace, of beauty, of atonement."--Philip Belcher, Southern Quarterly.;"Imagine a poem putting its arm in yours and talking, in language brash and delightful and clear as a bell, pointing its other hand at the bizarre, lovely, crushing, sexy, disappearing world. Now imagine a whole book of that. You're holding it! The Cabinetmaker's Window is wrought of the belief in the redemptive and transformative power of talking to each other of what we love in plain music. There is to me almost nothing as beautiful or true."--Ross Gay.;"When I tell you [Scafidi] is a poet of impressive reach and Elizabethan exuberance, you may take me at my word. Imaginatively adroit, formally outfitted without necessarily being formally complex, his work inhabits a large cognitive and imagistic space where ostensible subjects--snakes and weasels, a burning truck, the spruce front of a violin--grow into emanations or strands of implication." --David Rigsbee, Cortland Review --Book Jacket.;LSU Press Paperback Original.;Sometimes There Is a Shit Smell Everywhere -- The West Virginia Copper-Wing -- This Page -- Song for the Holy Ghost -- Two Cabinetmakers -- Looking for the Maker's Name -- At Wartime -- Questions I Asked Death, Questions Death Asked Me -- The Rocking Chair Bookcase -- Triumph of the Jabberwock -- Phone Call from the Pleistocene -- If Faulkner Is Wrong and We Don't Endure or Prevail -- Pig Fucker's Wife -- Song for the Tribe -- The Chisel -- Thank-You Wishes for the Wilderness -- Death of a Unicorn -- The Cabinetmaker's Window -- Like OMG, I Can Die Now ♥ Pammy -- Ars Aureus -- Lines for the Atrium of a High School -- After Ammianus of the 2nd Century A.D. -- Song for the Carry-On -- Driving Around -- The Little Girl from Outer Space -- On the Back of an Envelope -- The Denunciation of Ricky Skaggs from On High -- Days We Can't Play Black Sabbath -- Ode with a Dolphin at the End -- On the Birth of a Friend's Child -- Under the Collard Greens and the Poppies -- To a Cloud over Troy -- Dreaming Made the Hula Hoop -- You Should, Said Socrates, Sing a Charm over Him Every Day Until You Have Charmed Away His Fears -- Music for the Word Perhaps -- The Hillbilly Break-Dance and the Talking Crow -- Whiskey for Sorrow and a Song of Disgrace -- The Laborer -- What Sings in the Garden Shines in the Sun -- The Way the Days Pass One after Another -- Thank You Lord for the Dark Ablaze- -- How the Things We Work On, Work On Us -- On the Rebel Flag over my Neighbor's House -- To the Cabinetmakers -- Song for Sunday Morning -- Poem Ending with a Line from Auden -- The Taste of It -- In the Parking Lot of the Barbershop.;"This book can be read as a kind of antidote to the heady bumbo-jumbo jibber-jabber of our detached poetic times. It believes in the world without embarrassment--the one where you live in one place until you die.' It believes in other things, too--family, long love, t̀he rocking chair bookcase Chester Cornett built,' à walnut handle...like / a sky if the stars are dark,' and many other handmade and earth-born examples of what Scafidi calls d̀umb-luck whisky wonder and grace.' You'll love this speaker's gratitude, his willingness to take the long view, his open-heartedness, the community he commemorates and mourns. Even his arguments with death are gracious. This is a book of thanks, a book of celebrations and prayers. A r̀amshackle shining,' indeed."--Adrian Blevins.;Praise For Steve Scafidi.

✦ Subjects

Poetry