Table of Contents

Climate conditional (morning forecast); Escape sequence; Field notes : 1-6; Making space; Climate conditional (evening forecast); Risk sequence; Field notes : 7-12; The sporadic-proverbial grasp; Sky sequence; Window (closed); Field notes : 13-16; Lost sequence; Of angle, more than matter; Mistake sequence; Climate conditional (oncoming twilight); Caution sequence; Positions of the dance; Climate conditional (late watch); Morning sequence; Field notes : 17-20; Notes.

About the Author

Rusty Morrison co-won the 2003 Poetry Society of America's Robert H Winner Award and also the Five Fingers Review Poetry Award. Her poems have appeared in Boston Review, Conjunctions, New American Writing, Pleiades, and elsewhere.

Reviews

"In agile lines that canyon-open, exposing an unfashionable, edgy sinceritas, Rusty Morrison explores the intertwining of life and language in quiet, gorgeous meditations inflected by barn swallows. WHETHERING leads us into a shapely attentiveness to those particular others human, animal, vegetal that situate our affectual and perceptual experience and call us to find our 'way again and again/ outside the one thing.' With trenchant political and philosophical repercussions, Morrison's poems cut through the constraints of systematic thought to articulate gestural meanings, powerful rivulets of suggestion and sensibility that reopen the world and wound of being." -- Forrest Gander, author of Torn Awake and Science & Steepleflower.