Midflight
()
About this ebook
A posthumous collection, Midflight collects the poems written by beloved science editor and journalist David Corcoran in the latter part of his life. Idling in a space between the pastoral and the ordinary, Corcoran’s lyrical world maps the sublime mundanity of nature while exploring memory, dreams, and consciousness itself. Corcoran’s lines abound with figures living and long deceased, with the dead walking onstage as if they never left. Describing the accident that killed his father when he was a toddler in “Here,” Corcoran writes, “the door [opens] in midflight / and [pitches] him out.” In “Last Questions,” he asks, “Are you my brother or / a mockingbird?” While these haunting, vivid poems have an aching prescience, imbued as they are with the awareness of human ephemerality, the gift they proffer, to the writer and the reader at once, is the sense of finding oneself midflight, in midair, betwixt sky and ground, in the free fall of being—going and going and never gone.
Related to Midflight
Related ebooks
The Best American Poetry 2022 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTerror at 5280' Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Postman Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Poems for the Twilight Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSearching for Home Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPacific Light Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDelmarva Review, Volume 9 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWhat Kind of Man Are You Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe End of Vandalism: A Novel Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsIn Light of Stars Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Goat Fish and the Lover's Knot Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5All That Will Be New Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMike Barlow: Selected Poems Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRoss Sings Cheree & the Animated Dark Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNo Charity in the Wilderness: Poems Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsChangeable Thunder: Poems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Reading 5X5 x2: Duets Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAfter the Reunion: Poems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Tears of Dark Water Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5If You Walk Long Enough Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWrite Sorrow on the Bosom of the Earth Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Book of Dave Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Gravel and Hawk: Poems Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Orchestra of Wind Chimes Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsIntrusive Beauty: Poems Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Red Caddy: Into the Unknown with Edward Abbey Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How to Be Happy Though Human: New and Selected Poems Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWhen Fenelon Falls Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Dick Seddon's Great Dive and Other Stories Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsConfessions of a Fallen Standard-Bearer: A Novel Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Poetry For You
Beyond Thoughts: An Exploration Of Who We Are Beyond Our Minds Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Odyssey: (The Stephen Mitchell Translation) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatory, and Paradise Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Daily Stoic: A Daily Journal On Meditation, Stoicism, Wisdom and Philosophy to Improve Your Life Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Dante's Divine Comedy: Inferno Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Canterbury Tales Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Way Forward Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Iliad: The Fitzgerald Translation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Prophet Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Edgar Allan Poe: The Complete Collection Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Tao Te Ching: A New English Version Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Inward Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Iliad of Homer Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Selected Poems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5For colored girls who have considered suicide/When the rainbow is enuf Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Beowulf Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dante's Inferno: The Divine Comedy, Book One Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Gilgamesh: A New English Version Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Leaves of Grass: 1855 Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Poems That Make Grown Men Cry: 100 Men on the Words That Move Them Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Odyssey Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Odyssey Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Divine Comedy: Inferno Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Twenty love poems and a song of despair Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bedtime Stories for Grown-ups Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Tradition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Love Her Wild: Poems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Things We Don't Talk About Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Road Not Taken and other Selected Poems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related categories
Reviews for Midflight
0 ratings0 reviews