Neck of the World
Neck of the World
F. Daniel Rzicznek
foreword by Alice Quinn
Series: Swenson Poetry Award
Copyright Date: 2007
Published by: University Press of Colorado,
https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgnh1
Pages: 60
https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt4cgnh1
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Neck of the World
Book Description:

Neck of the World is the eleventh volume in the prestigious May Swenson Poetry Award series. In it, Daniel Rzicznek offers poems that, in quick angular language, capture the natural world and at the same time extend it into a surreal vision, sometimes dream-like, sometimes dark. Alice Quinn, judge for the 2007 Swenson Award, says this of Rzicznek's work: "Throughout, the language pulsates, always vigorous, by turns knotty and crystalline. . . . In Neck of the World, we have a poet with a striking new vision--challenging, rewarding, and bold."

eISBN: 978-0-87421-669-1
Subjects: Language & Literature
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  1. Front Matter
    Front Matter (pp. i-vi)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgnh1.1
  2. Table of Contents
    Table of Contents (pp. vii-viii)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgnh1.2
  3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS (pp. ix-x)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgnh1.3
  4. FOREWORD
    FOREWORD (pp. xi-2)
    Alice Quinn
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgnh1.4

    Reading and rereading the poems in Neck of The World prompted me to return to and dwell upon the aphorisms grouped under the heading “Adagia” in Wallace Stevens’s Opus Posthumous. A few of the “Adagia” are as gnomic and unforgettable as the poems in this debut collection:

    One reads poetry with one’s nerves.

    We have to step boldly into man’s interior world or not at all.

    A poem need not have a meaning, and, like most things in nature, often does not have.

    Poetry is a pheasant disappearing in the brush.

    Poetry, Stevens noted elsewhere, “makes itself manifest in a...

  5. ONE
    • SPEAKMAPLE
      SPEAKMAPLE (pp. 5-5)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgnh1.5
    • A MOUTHFUL OF CRICKETS
      A MOUTHFUL OF CRICKETS (pp. 6-6)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgnh1.6
    • A BEAR IN HIS MADNESS
      A BEAR IN HIS MADNESS (pp. 7-7)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgnh1.7
    • HAPPY
      HAPPY (pp. 8-8)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgnh1.8
    • WITHIN WITHIN
      WITHIN WITHIN (pp. 9-9)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgnh1.9
    • WINNOWING
      WINNOWING (pp. 10-10)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgnh1.10
    • NECK OF THE WOODS
      NECK OF THE WOODS (pp. 11-11)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgnh1.11
    • DREAMER IN WINTER
      DREAMER IN WINTER (pp. 12-12)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgnh1.12
    • DONNYBROOK
      DONNYBROOK (pp. 13-13)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgnh1.13
    • VOWS OF BABEL
      VOWS OF BABEL (pp. 14-14)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgnh1.14
    • STORMDWELLER
      STORMDWELLER (pp. 15-15)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgnh1.15
    • TOYHOUSE
      TOYHOUSE (pp. 16-16)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgnh1.16
    • GRACKLES
      GRACKLES (pp. 17-17)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgnh1.17
    • SILENCE JOURNAL
      SILENCE JOURNAL (pp. 18-18)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgnh1.18
    • DURING FEVER
      DURING FEVER (pp. 19-19)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgnh1.19
    • BLOOD REALM
      BLOOD REALM (pp. 20-20)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgnh1.20
  6. TWO
    • GENIUS OF FROGS
      GENIUS OF FROGS (pp. 23-23)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgnh1.21
    • HIBERNACULA
      HIBERNACULA (pp. 24-24)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgnh1.22
    • OUTSIDE THE HORSE
      OUTSIDE THE HORSE (pp. 25-25)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgnh1.23
    • PRAYER FOR FALL
      PRAYER FOR FALL (pp. 26-26)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgnh1.24
    • THIEVES
      THIEVES (pp. 27-27)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgnh1.25
    • DUST MERCHANT
      DUST MERCHANT (pp. 28-28)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgnh1.26
    • RAKER
      RAKER (pp. 29-29)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgnh1.27
    • SYCAMORE
      SYCAMORE (pp. 30-30)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgnh1.28
    • RAINLEGS
      RAINLEGS (pp. 31-31)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgnh1.29
    • BOOK OF LETTERS REVERSED
      BOOK OF LETTERS REVERSED (pp. 32-32)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgnh1.30
    • TEN CENTS WORTH OF FOG
      TEN CENTS WORTH OF FOG (pp. 33-33)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgnh1.31
    • NORTH OF NORTH
      NORTH OF NORTH (pp. 34-34)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgnh1.32
    • FISHKILL
      FISHKILL (pp. 35-35)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgnh1.33
    • PRIMER
      PRIMER (pp. 36-36)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgnh1.34
    • RADIO
      RADIO (pp. 37-38)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgnh1.35
  7. THREE
    • HELMET IN THE GLADE
      HELMET IN THE GLADE (pp. 41-41)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgnh1.36
    • FOGLIFTER
      FOGLIFTER (pp. 42-42)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgnh1.37
    • WHERE YOUR VICTORY
      WHERE YOUR VICTORY (pp. 43-43)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgnh1.38
    • NIGHTYARD
      NIGHTYARD (pp. 44-44)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgnh1.39
    • FIRST LADY
      FIRST LADY (pp. 45-45)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgnh1.40
    • CATHODE
      CATHODE (pp. 46-46)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgnh1.41
    • HOST
      HOST (pp. 47-47)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgnh1.42
    • NECK OF THE WORLD
      NECK OF THE WORLD (pp. 48-48)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgnh1.43
    • HOODED MERGANSER
      HOODED MERGANSER (pp. 49-49)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgnh1.44
    • BAIT
      BAIT (pp. 50-50)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgnh1.45
    • TICKETS FOR A FIRE
      TICKETS FOR A FIRE (pp. 51-51)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgnh1.46
    • RETURNING THE GHOST
      RETURNING THE GHOST (pp. 52-52)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgnh1.47
    • CRESTED DAUGHTER
      CRESTED DAUGHTER (pp. 53-53)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgnh1.48
    • DECOMP
      DECOMP (pp. 54-54)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgnh1.49
    • MANE AND CLAW
      MANE AND CLAW (pp. 55-55)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgnh1.50
    • HUMAN
      HUMAN (pp. 56-56)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgnh1.51
    • ASTRAL
      ASTRAL (pp. 57-57)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgnh1.52
  8. NOTES
    NOTES (pp. 58-58)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgnh1.53
  9. Back Matter
    Back Matter (pp. 59-60)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt4cgnh1.54