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Chantry

by Elizabeth Treadwell

ISBN 0-925904-40-6

98 pages, $16

Description:

Chantry is song. Chantry is song that exceeds song structure in all dimensions to become invocation and enchantment. From "the vessel without a cover" to "late silhouette in / blue" it refuses to be contained, as a book wants to live outside its covers. Sing this: "linger so this grace of grace," yet sing it so that "the door cracks in so many different directions." It is in these cracks, these interstices, that Elizabeth Treadwell finds and makes song, and the song exceeds and excels. Wordsworth defined poetry as spontaneous overflow of emotion, recollected in tranquility. Hear the overflow: "lovelove. all back-slaps and gummy smiles; free for honest mating?" and hear the invocation of a tranquility available for recollection and celebration: "inventing an alphabet / and feast their Beloved for awhile." Throughout all, hear a language that irrepressibly invites the reader in, and creates a world worth the while, worth the song.

from CHANTRY:

sin-eater blue nostalgia mix

knicked in the panty house. pooped in the pantry dish. index croplink. lime subject parallelogram to the bent tint. coexistence delegates. it was a lonely ride, my feet would rather follow. schoolcraftian fuel.

"Snoopy & Linus looked all over but they could
not find the blanket. They looked behind trash
cans, mailboxes, and everything else that
looked like it might be a hiding place for a
security blanket. Linus was really depressed
because he knew there was little chance of finding
his blanket in the streets of a big city
like this." -- Charles M. Schulz

rumor of yellowstone. husbands meet on the street.
ice cream parking lot sun the close relatives. ghirardelli whynot. a small girl objects to & then greets a small dog. barely corruptible lesson knoll. seen at leisure.

novitiate chapter. painted tale greeted the reputation.