{"id":11406,"date":"2018-05-31T12:28:07","date_gmt":"2018-05-31T16:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/?page_id=11406"},"modified":"2023-03-28T17:16:16","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T21:16:16","slug":"blood-labors-daniel-tobin","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/blood-labors-daniel-tobin\/","title":{"rendered":"Blood Labors"},"content":{"rendered":"

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paper \u2022 136 pages \u2022 15.95
\nISBN-13: 978-1-945588-19-8<\/p>\n

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Blood Labors<\/em><\/h1>\n

Daniel Tobin<\/h2>\n

On The New York Times’<\/em> list of The Best Poetry of 2018<\/a>.<\/h5>\n
On Washington Independent Review of Books’ September 2018 Best Books List.<\/h5>\n

A collection that explores spaces in order to probe the fraught interplay of matter and spirit, desire and monstrosity, the created and the uncreated. <\/em><\/p>\n

The title Blood Labors<\/em> is a double entendre: labors as both the thing and the action. Split into four sections, which act as musical movements more than section breaks, there are poems about space and matter, the human impulse to create, and the artist’s work.<\/p>\n

XI. Fecundity (in “Downstream”) from Blood Labors<\/em><\/p>\n

And all shall be well, and all manner of thing
\nShall grow through and out of me like a body
\nMade of light, my feet rooted in the planet’s
\nLucent pool, its waters reflecting sky
\nOut of which flower fields unfold their flesh,
\nSuch benignly eloquent wordless bouquets,
\nEverything efflorescence, sexy material ghost
\nOf me, immaculately maculate quickening
\nLife, bone-house birdhouse (the human hidden
\nIn the heart’s whorled foliage) and the blue
\nHaloes upholding twin swans curving whitely\u2014
\nIn me you will find no sunset, only sunrise.
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