“Pit Pinegar poses an urgent question: what do we do once our ‘spiritual DNA’ is permanently altered by an experience of love? Shakespeare’s Juliet, insisting the lark’s song was a nightingale’s, wanted to prolong her wedding night. Pinegar, in this highly original sequence of love poems, manages through the imagination to stop time. In aubade after aubade, the lovers’ bed remains the center of the world and the heart changes the laws of time and space. Read this book straight-through: these remarkable poems build on themselves like a philosophical treatise written with passion and grace. In ‘Inquiry into the Nature of Desire,’ the speaker is asked, ‘What do you want?’ ‘Everything,’ she responds. ‘Can you be more specific?’ Her answer says it all. ‘That is specific. I’ve left nothing out.’ In this remarkable book, Pinegar takes extraordinary risks and succeeds in putting ‘everything’on the page.” Theodore Deppe “Like many a good love story, Pit Pinegar’s The Physics of Transmigration leads me through frenzied page turning, straight from beginning to the end, no pause. Ah, the excitement, the satisfaction, that sense of something inevitable completing itself. But something else, too: contemplation and a quiet noticing of quotidian miracles. It may be that what Pinegar asks of love we also ask of poetry to ‘[hold] time backward and forward past embodiment.’ These poems give us that, and more. They live their creator’s manifesto that ‘poetry might be practical, sense made pure and simple’?and go straight to the heart of love, its common, daily wonder.” Alison Meyers Pit Menousek Pinegar is the author of two earlier collections of poetry: The Possibilities of Empty Space and Nine Years Between Two Poems, both from Andrew Mountain Press. Her work has appeared in many journals, including Tar River Poetry, The South Carolina Quarterly, Kalliope, Connecticut Review, and The Texas Review. She was featured in the first season of the Sunken Garden Poetry Festival, again at the Festival’s tenth anniversary event, and reads frequently at schools, universities, and libraries. Pinegar is a teaching artist at the Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts, Litchfield Poetry Live, the Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts, and the Center for Creative Youth at Wesleyan University. She also directs the Sunken Garden Poetry Festival’s urban outreach program and founded the Cheney Hall Broadside Series, which she directed for eight years. Novelist and playwright as well as poet, Pinegar presented an original monologue, All Available Space, at Womenkind VI, a festival of one-woman shows in New York City. She has received a fellowship from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts and the Governor’s Distinguished Advocate of the Arts Award. Her ten-year-old business, A Creative Life, produces a variety of teaching, writing, creative, and consulting services to individuals, schools, and other organizations. For more about the author, please visit her website at www.pitpinegar.com. Click here to read some sample poems. The Antrim House seminar room offers notes, issues for discussion, and writing assignments. Click here to attend the seminar on The Physics of Transmigration. |
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BOOK STATISTICS ISBN: 0-9762091-1-X
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LIGHT Not a day goes by, not a night, made brighter by new snow, from us, as though we’d been stoked And your eyestoo bright to look at, |
EARS
Mine are often characterized I didn’t know birds sang You know not to whisper, hear, forget even that the ear |
INFUSION Jasmine tea is both scent and taste that defies distinction, even my whisper, your cry are indivisible. |
INQUIRY INTO THE NATURE OF DESIRE What do you want?
And that is enough? |
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