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Out of grief, upheaval, derision, disappointment, and change of all kinds—from the intimate to the mythic—Incantations both admonishes and rails. Darnell Arnoult's evocative collection unleashes frustration and longing in tongues of fire. And while her poems walk heaven’s blues home in a rush of images, real and imagined, they point to an undergirding optimism and path toward healing and hope where joy lies “dazed and waiting.” The spells cast here are beyond magic, beyond human—no less than urgent, no more than what’s necessary to begin again.
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DARNELL ARNOULT was born and raised in Henry County, Virginia. She lived for twenty years in Chapel Hill and Durham, North Carolina, where she received a BA in American Studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an MA in English and Creative Writing from North Carolina State University and worked at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. She is also the author of What Travels With Us: Poems, published by Louisiana State University Press and winner of the Appalachian Studies Association's Weatherford Award. Her fiction and poetry have been published in a variety of journals, and she has taught creative writing to adults for over fifteen years. She and her husband live on a small farm near Nashville, Tennessee. Visit the author at www.darnellarnoult.com
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Incantations - Darnell Arnoult
Also by Darnell Arnoult:
Galaxie Wagon: Poems (LSU Press 2016)
What Travels With Us: Poems (LSU Press 2005)
Sufficient Grace: A Novel (Atria 2007)
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Cover Design: Kim Davis
Author Photo: Danny Vaughn
ISBN: 978-1-956440-77-5 paperback
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Library of Congress Control Number: 2023947056
For Bryson Joseph Brock
and for Denton Loving
Contents
I.
Knowing
Sight
Beneath Love
Embodiment
Morning
Memory
Gazing Out
II.
Runners
High Office
Legend
View from Space
Struggle
Land Futures
Reincarnation
Upheaval
Intone
Profit
Exodus Creek
Mothy Night
Hammering Gently
Liturgy
Invention
III.
Barn Star
No One Owns Him
Hero (Or Out in the Weeds)
Salvage
Reclamation
This Too Is Creation
Highline
Love Fever
Like Angels
IV.
Hunt
What We Know
Passing
Misdirection
Malady
Prayer
Motion
Night Wars
Evolution Sonnet
V.
To Remain Open
Pickup
Widowhood
Sorrow
Storm
Rebirth
Engine
Rebirth II
New Life
Flood
VI.
Exist
Architecture
Immortality
Look Up
Voice Lessons
Assault
Invention II
Purpose of Art
Daylight
Rapture
Work
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Imagination, then, must be the flip
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