Anyone (Phoenix Poets)

ISBN: 022619695X

Author: Klug, Nate

Condition: New

Miltons GodWhere I-95 meets The Pike,a ponderous thunderhead flowered-stewed a minute, then flippedlike a flash card, tatterededges crinkling in, linings so darkwith excessive brightthat, standing, waiting, at the overpass edge,the onlooker couldnt decideuntil the end, or even then,what was revealed and what had been hidden.Using a variety of forms and achieving a range of musical effects, Nate Klugs Anyone traces the unraveling of astonishment upon small scenes-natural and domestic, political and religious-across Americas East and Midwest. The books title foregrounds the anonymity it seeks through several means: first, through close observation (a concrete saw, a goshawk, a bicyclist); and, second, via translation (satires from Horace and Catullus, and excerpts from Virgils Aeneid). Uniquely among contemporary poetry volumes, Anyone demonstrates fluency in the paradoxes of a religious existence: To stand sometime / outside my faith . . . or keep waiting / to be claimed in it. Engaged with theology and the classics but never abstruse, all the while the poems remain grounded in the phenomenal, physical world of what it is to feel: / moods, half moods, / swarming, then darting loose.