{"id":3469,"date":"2013-08-29T16:26:34","date_gmt":"2013-08-29T16:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/?page_id=3469"},"modified":"2022-12-20T15:19:52","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T20:19:52","slug":"belated-heavens","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/belated-heavens\/","title":{"rendered":"Belated Heavens"},"content":{"rendered":"

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paper \u2022 92 pages \u2022 15.95
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Belated Heavens<\/em><\/h1>\n

Daniel Tobin<\/h2>\n

In the title poem of Daniel Tobin\u2019s far-reaching fifth collection, Belated Heavens<\/em>, the seemingly effortless inflation of an air mattress \u201cout of nothing, so nothing fills [it]\u201d playfully calls to mind \u201cthe turtle of creation\u201d as it \u201cswims through time.\u201d Tobin, masterful bard, observes thought-provoking harmonies across grand scales: in \u201cA Palm Print at Lascaux,\u201d the speaker reaches out, Alice in Wonderland-style, to set himself within \u201cthe steppe \/ alive in limestone.\u201d Belated Heavens<\/em> paints the interconnectedness of past times and distant places, from the possibility of an afterlife\u2014\u201cyour many dead still nearby \/ watching you from behind your life\u2019s one-way mirror\u201d\u2014to the \u201cmanna in the marmoreal air\u201d of a \u201cWinter Storm, Jerusalem.\u201d<\/p>\n

Belated Heavens<\/em> critiques the \u201cpalpable clich\u00e9: \/ art is the bulwark of our fear.\u201d The poet\u2019s work makes him a documentarian who speaks meaningfully where \u201ctalking heads drone on.\u201d Tobin\u2019s wit delights\u2014a riff on Frost\u2019s \u201cMending Wall\u201d inserts \u201chydrostatic pressure\u201d\u2014but also teaches wisely: you \u201cwalk among remnants \/ of a lost world, even when its not your own.\u201d Using villanelle and paradelle, free verse and blank verse, terza rima and the blues, Belated Heavens<\/em> weaves diverse iconographies: Babylonian gods, medieval cartography, paparazzi, Neanderthal DNA, the extinctions of languages and species. Tobin sees the world\u2019s sweep and crystallizes it in its troubling fragility; he reminds us that knowledge itself is all too often belated.<\/p>\n

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[column col=”1\/4″] paper \u2022 92 pages \u2022 15.95 ISBN-13:\u00a0978-1-935536-03-1 Add to Cart [\/column] Belated Heavens Daniel Tobin In the title poem of Daniel Tobin\u2019s far-reaching fifth collection, Belated Heavens, the seemingly effortless inflation of an air mattress \u201cout of nothing, so nothing fills [it]\u201d playfully calls to mind \u201cthe turtle of creation\u201d as it \u201cswims […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3469","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3469"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18817,"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3469\/revisions\/18817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}