Bee of the invisible

Notes on the work of Barbara Cully (The New Intimacy, Penguin, 1997)

Pictures of the Floating World, disassociated, fragmentary, unloosed, loosely knit, atomic particles, untethered, free

The poems work by: description, juxtaposition, collage (“experience is a collage and not a cottage”)
and accumulation

internal rhyme, assonance and alliteration

reversal

Forms:

floating lines /composition by field
and floating stanzas

dense paragraphs
couplets
singlets, as in mundo sin fin, “far from this world”
floating lines: “The Museum Frieze” “The Thing Itself,” “Solo” only this last is made up of single lines hard to the left margin?

prose poems

The Subjects of the Poet:

Relationship, solitude, desire
landscape and feeling
love and disruption

“the way things look each day” Wallace Stevens

“I look and look, /As though I could be saved simply by looking” Jorie Graham

“Description is revelation,”

“To seem is to be”

“Seeming is description without place” Wallace Stevens

“Nature also means the physical universe, including the urban, industrial and toxic. But we do not easily know nature, or even know ourselves. Whatever it actually is, it will not fulfill our conceptions or assumptions. ,, The greatest respect we can pay to nature is not to trap it, but to acknowledge that it eludes us and that our own nature is also fluid, open, and conditional.
Gary Snyder….No Nature

‘we are the bees of the invisible’ Rilke