Turning Into Dwelling by Gilbert, Christopher -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover The Graywolf Poetry Re/View Series Title Page Copyright Contents Introduction Across the Mutual Landscape

This Bridge Across I. Fire Gotten Brighter

Resonance Pushing And, Yes, Those Spiritual Matters Marking Time Muriel Rukeyser as Energy She Time with Stevie Wonder in It Fire Gotten Brighter

II. The Moment Getting So

Now Exactly Passing Through (Horn Player) Semiotic Function Kite-Flying The Surviving Touching Listening to Monk’s Mysterioso I Remember Braiding My Sisters’ Hair

III. Horizontal Cosmology

The Backyard The Moment Getting So Fetish Saxophone Speaking Things The Facts

IV. Beginning by Example

Beginning by Example Blue Beginning by Destruction Beginning by Value Like The Directions Any Good Throat Charge Edges

V. In the Mutual Landscape

The Clearing Glimpses Pitch African Sculpture Theory of Curve Lottery Chosen to Be Water Glimpses of Power Enclosure How the Stars Understand Us Kodac and Chris Walking the Mutual Landscape Saturday Morning at the Laundry

Chris Gilbert: An Improvisation (Music of the Striving That Was There)

You, the Piece That Was There I. Steps and Transformations

Blues/The Blue Case against the Lack Of The Art of Improvisers Joseph Walking Light’s Way Out of Time Soweto, the Present Tense The Atmosphere The Turn Bad On the Way Back Home A Passage Tourist Watermelon Getting Over There

II. Witnesses of the Striving That Was There

Willie’s Fake Book Pleasant Street A Sorrow since Sitting Bull Absentee Landlord The “The” Andy Warhol’s Marilyn as Nigger Wall Straight Outta Truth Zeus Getting the Last Word A Woman’s Boat Adrift in August Beef (with Symbols) Untitled Society’s Heroic Underdogs For Instance, Genealogy Chris Gilbert: An Improvisation Metaphor for Something That Plays Us: Remembering Eric Dolphy

III. Into the Into

Turning into Dwelling Signature Into the Into

Notes and Sources Acknowledgments Afterword About the Author