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    A Young Recruit
    A Young Recruit
    A Young Recruit
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    A Young Recruit

    By Jean Day

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    Poetry. "These poems are quiet and intellectually demanding at the same time they are tough and filled with passion. That's the best thing I can say for any poems, to be able to walk that balance."—Susan Howe. Jean Day (born in 1954), is an American poet. Born in Syracuse, NY, and raised in Middletown, RI, Day graduated from Antioch College in 1977. Since then she has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area and worked in literary publishing, currently as associate editor of Representations. She was acquisitions manager, then executive director of Small Press Distribution from 1977 to 1989, developing close associations with many Bay Area writers and publishers, including Lyn Hejinian, Bob Perelman, Steve Benson, Johanna Drucker, Barrett Watten, Alan Bernheimer, Kit Robinson, Laura Moriarty, and Tom Mandel. She is married to the philosopher and art critic John Rapko.Day has published six books of poetry, and her work has appeared in a number of anthologies, including The Best American Poetry 2004, Moving Borders: Three Decades of Innovative Writing by Women (1998), and In the American Tree (1986). Her translations from the Russian (with Elena Balashova) have been anthologized in Third Wave: The New Russian Poetry (1992) and Crossing Centuries: The New Generation in Russian Poetry (2000). She has received awards and fellowships from the Fund for Poetry, the National Endowment for the Arts, the California Arts Council, the George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, and the Contemporary Arts Educational Project. 
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRoof Books
    Release dateSep 30, 1988
    ISBN9780937804308
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      A Young Recruit - Jean Day

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      NO SPRINGS TRAIL

      GROUND

      Later.

      Sections of sky arouse

      languid passing

      where sheep may safely graze.

      Prosaic trees stand

      calculated as animation

      pours down plot

      after plot.

      On the grass

      as part of a rescue

      the teams, domestic and familial

      suddenly start &

      Into a composite scene

      red weekend things

      come walking. If you just want to go somewhere

      and think

      It must have a gripping effect

      on people. Power (not suggestion)

      darkens the sky. Geese

      flock. We thought

      you wouldn’t stop

      to the noise of alot of decoys.

      Oh Shenandoah your great

      shape destroys its own

      arms. Pen-knife points

      To nature, called Ranch-Hotel

      after it was civilized.

      One born there

      charts a hot path

      through wet

      Without refrain.

      It seemed clear she couldn’t bite

      the nipple off

      though object song

      leads closure to lush

      garden camellias falling

      with birds not bodily

      but just. Across deep

      green the glory

      and the rag fly

      writing up a size,

      out a window, geometry

      proved in thought, tries.

      Then these lines swell

      to an almost historical rain

      founded on our first metaphysical

      UNREST

      The window is open. Jiggle the picture. Jar the fruit. A big dog

      is on its way.

      I have no two things

      that take from order

      order. Fancy too

      is bent

      converted. Design

      by committee passes

      fluster through window

      across yard

      purpose I always

      call things. Fidelity

      of enough in the land

      of that land,

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