A reissuing of Body Moves, poems by Tim Seibles

Body Moves

Literature & Fiction

Seibles, Tim

Poetry

Carnegie-Mellon University Press

Poetry. African American Studies. "From the 'sweet scat' and 'jump rope hymns' of wonder and wistfulness to the transformational, lithe, sexually charged energy of jazz, HURDY-GURDY earnestly explores the differences between what we want, what we get, and what we must be willing to pursue at any cost. This is an exciting book—at once fluid, shapely, and steady as stone—whose tensions lead us to an authentic meditative wholeness."—Mark Cox "This is not a poetry of the highfalutin violin nor the somber cello, but a melody you heard somewhere that followed you home. Elegant and silly, irreverent, fun and funny, Tim Seibles' poetry celebrates the spirit's little moments of holy joy."—Sandra Cisneros

Hurdy-Gurdy (Cleveland State University Poetry Series: XXXVIII)

Cleveland State University Poetry Center

History & Criticism

Texas Monthly Pr

2012 National Book Award Finalist in Poetry
 Crisply comic,disarmingly frank, and aurally bold ” Publishers Weekly
This collection by African American poet Tim Seibles explores a range of poetic form, including lyric, ode, narrative, and mystical. Like a "fast animal," the poet's voice can swiftly change direction and tone as he crisscrosses between present and past.
Built like one single sustained song, Fast Animal is alive with music, ardor, and wit that flow in utterances that are uniquely [Seibles'] and his alone."Laure-Anne Bosselaar, author of The Hour Between
From "Delores Jepps"
It seems insane now, but she’d be standing soaked in schoolday morning light, her loose-leaf notebook, flickering at the bus stop, and we almost trembled at the thought of her mouth filled for a moment with both of our short names. I don’t know what we saw when we saw her face, but at fifteen there’s so much left to believe in 
Tim Seibles, who teaches at Old Dominion University, is the author of six previous books, including Body Moves and Hurdy-Gurdy. His poetry has been featured in Best American Poetry 2010. Seibles has been the recipient of an NEA grant for poetry and Open Voice award.

Fast Animal

Etruscan Press

One Turn Around the Sun is a panorama of poems that attempts to define the first appearances of life's twilight. The book also studies the intricacies of being a self: a particular personality shaped by forces seen and unseen, both knowable and not. At times, the various voices might be considered characters that agree and sustain one perspective. In other cases, contending sensibilities imply an underlying argument. This is especially true of the book within the book, which is entitled "The Hilt." Several questions drive this collection, the most central being "how can a person stay sane when so often socio-political circumstances mock all efforts to create a livable world?" This title's intention is to bolster an ongoing engagement with life at a time when running away is a great temptation.
Tim Seibles' book of poems, Fast Animal (Etruscan Press, 2011), was a finalist for the 2012 National Book Award, received the triennial Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize, and the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award. Seibles has received fellowships from both the Provincetown Fine Arts Center and The National Endowment for the Arts. He also won the Open Voice Award from the 63rd Street Y in New York City. His work appears in numerous literary journals including Indiana Review, Black Renaissance Noire, Huizache, Cortland Review, and Ploughshares. His poem, "Allison Wolff," was anthologized in Best American Poetry 2010.

One Turn Around the Sun

Ploughshares Spring 1995 Guest-Edited by Gary Soto

Graver, Elizabeth

Gilb, Dagoberto

Hicok, Bob

Espada, Martín

Dodd, Susan

Beller, Thomas

Paola,Suzanne

Hales, Corrinne

Ploughshares / Emerson College

Review\n"Do not be fooled by the title of Angelique Palmer’s newest collection of poems. Though the dark is emphasized, in the tradition of Rumi, Palmer is well aware that “the wound is where the light enters you.” Palmer’s poems speak of the deep bruises of longtime wounds; some physical and marrow deep, and others that are etched into the soul. However, Palmer deftly wields her wry humor and utilizes Clifton like discernment, to craft a body of poems that offer unflinching vulnerability, tangible, lush desire and an irrepressible hunger to shoulder the healing after the harm. These poems leak light and make you, dear reader, that much braver to meet tomorrow after reading them. " ―Derrick Weston Brown, Wisdom Teeth and On All Fronts; Floodgate Poetry Series Vol. 5\nVoodoo Libretto is in many ways a book of memories, a chronicle of both the personal and the political sensibility of a black baby-boomer. Driven by a restless and wide-ranging imagination, the poems are sometimes humorous, sometimes deadly serious, sometimes erotic, sometimes mystical, and occasionally all of these things at once.

Voodoo Libretto: New & Selected Poems

Poetry. "Tim Seibles' version of our changing and growing American speech range widely, from anguish to comedy, from transcendence to earthly bewilderment. The joy of reading these poems is like overhearing a very smart, crazy neighbor's thoughts as they move between philosophical inquiry and praise for the everyday"--Li-Young Lee.

Hammerlock (Imagination Ser. Vol. 3)

Cleveland State U Poetry Center

Poetry. "Reading Tim Seibles reminds me of the Buddhist parable of the burning house: everyone ignores the flames, pretends there is no smoke, no pain, no prospect of death. Or, if there is, it will only happen to someone else, someone in another world. According to these teachings, aversion and attachment are not the greatest barriers to fulfillment; it is indifference that endangers a soul. Not to embrace or confront what is undeniably there but to detach ourselves and retreat. It is precisely this indifference that these poems challenge with lyric insistence - begging, assailing, teasing, affirming. In this mystical, romantic and political collection, Seibles is willing to take a chance, any chance to engage the general malaise of our times. He is a musician of the spirit and of the body, and it is that quality which carries us forward breath by breath, line by line. The journey is oddly enchanting, even transformative"--Nin Andrews.

Buffalo Head Solos

Poetry. "Reading Tim Seibles reminds me of the Buddhist parable of the burning house: everyone ignores the flames, pretends there is no smoke, no pain, no prospect of death. Or, if there is, it will only happen to someone else, someone in another world. According to these teachings, aversion and attachment are not the greatest barriers to fulfillment; it is indifference that endangers a soul. Not to embrace or confront what is undeniably there but to detach ourselves and retreat. It is precisely this indifference that these poems challenge with lyric insistence - begging, assailing, teasing, affirming. In this mystical, romantic and political collection, Seibles is willing to take a chance, any chance to engage the general malaise of our times. He is a musician of the spirit and of the body, and it is that quality which carries us forward breath by breath, line by line. The journey is oddly enchanting, even transformative"--Nin Andrews.

Buffalo Head Solos (Imagination, 7)

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Body Moves

Hurdy-Gurdy (Cleveland State University Poetry Series: XXXVIII)

Body Moves

Fast Animal

One Turn Around the Sun

Ploughshares Spring 1995 Guest-Edited by Gary Soto

Voodoo Libretto: New & Selected Poems

Hammerlock (Imagination Ser. Vol. 3)

Buffalo Head Solos

Buffalo Head Solos (Imagination, 7)