By Robert Wrigley
A robust new assortment from an award-winning poet Robert Wrigley has turn into considered one of his generation's so much finished poets, popular for his irony, energy, and lucid sort and for his skill to fuse narrative and lyrical impulses. Like its namesake—Robert Burton's seventeenth-century exam of human suggestions and emotions—Wrigley's new assortment potential to envision our international throughout the lens of melancholia. From imagined warfare memorials to insomniac chickens; from Descartes' misplaced daughter to a dreaming tree; from King Kong to hurry Limbaugh; and from Anna Karenina to a guy named Lucy Doolin (short for Lucifer), those are poems that elegize and rejoice that almost all attractive, exasperating, joyous, depressing, and completely imperfect of all creatures—the person.
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Draw the traces! think the crow’s nest, Pip. This send sails on tune and wind, and away with birds. NIGHTINGALE potential Italy, might 2011 We’ve been in Bogliasco every week sooner than we comprehend the poultry that’s woke up us each one miserably early morning is a nightingale. i'm happy by means of this, simply as i used to be years in the past, whilst I had my photo taken in Rome, kneeling subsequent to the headstone of John Keats. whenever i glance at that photo, i believe, There i'm, kneeling subsequent to the headstone of John Keats. And this week, woke up each darkish morning earlier than 4, i believe, I’m listening to an identical form of chicken Keats wrote of, at Hampstead, in a single of the good odes of 1819, and it makes me a bit unhappy to admit that of all of them i like the nightingale ode least. Even the bird’s singing—fulsome and musical, in particular within the still-dark Ligurian morning— doesn't entice me because it did to Keats. At this deep blue and aubadial hour, it’s too loud. And an excessive amount of. yet then, so is the truth that on Bartleby. com, correct there on my monitor subsequent to Keats’s poem, is Alexia. She’s appealing and pouty, slightly dressed, “in a relationship,” it says in Italian, yet who “ha insoddisfatti desideri. ” She has “unsatisfied desires,” in different phrases. “Aiutala! ” it implores. aid her! an excessive amount of, convinced, yet attention-grabbing: Keats, a nightingale, unhappy wants, the eager for perfection, and Alexia. the following she is back, this time along “To Autumn,” a poem I want, even though now I’m questioned by means of either her abundance and her ubiquity, because she’s subsequent to the “Grecian Urn” and “Melancholy” too. She’s no longer through the “Ode to Psyche,” that's unusual, because the first phrases of that one are “O Goddess! ” and obviously that’s what Alexia’s intended to seem to somebody who comes upon her the following. (She’s thirty-four, it says, nearly a decade older than Keats ever used to be. ) For a few cause Bartleby prefers to not supply “Indolence” in any respect; it’s nowhere at the web site, even though Keats himself defined its topic as “the purely happiness…the physique overpowering the Mind,” whatever Alexia might be acknowledged to personify: a daring lover you may by no means kiss. As for the figures at the urn, it’s real they are going to dwell in supple formative years and mad pursuit so long as does the urn, and their wishes will in all that point move unhappy: boughs that can't shed their leaves, the piper who, unwearied, pipes new songs perpetually, the figures perpetually hot and nonetheless to be loved, perpetually panting, perpetually younger. a few think Keats died a virgin. Others imagine his such a lot worldly pal, Brown, without doubt took him to a brothel as soon as. in the meantime, the following in the dead of night Italian morning, I left the lady i like in mattress a ground under on the way to examine a chicken whose tune I by no means heard other than in phrases. I made my solution to the place, millions of miles from domestic and all my books, i'll learn how any such factor may possibly topic to me. And while I sought Keats’s poems electronically, there has been Alexia, and because then i've got inspiration extra of her than of Keats, or my cherished, or the nightingale nonetheless making a song outdoors.