The late sun falls slowly into the afternoon of your eyes, and there
it pauses as one might pause to take a breath -from "Lost"
Nothing Is But You and I, the breathtaking final volume in the Apostrophes series, reveals poet E.D. Blodgett at his most accomplished. Lyrical grace meets exquisite technique as Blodgett fathoms intimacy, knowledge, and being. The poems allow us to listen to one side of an intimate conversation; yet despite this inward focus, the speaker looks up and out at a larger world, inviting us into contemplations of loss, time, memory, and the ineffable other. Majestic poems look up and out at a larger world; inviting, contemplating, deliberating, reflecting. "Blodgett was perhaps the greatest living master of prosody in Canadian poetry, and this lifetime of craft is evident in every poem. Apostrophes VIII is exceptional-the culmination of one of the most distinguished poetry careers in Canada in the past fifty years." "These are accomplished, weighty poems that demand full immersion on the part of the reader. They are dense and metaphysical with their own signature rhythm which often feels like waves crashing onto a shore, or a pebble thrown into water, and the rings from its weight moving outward into wider circles." # 6 on Edmonton Fiction Bestsellers list, March 04, 2019 # 2 on Edmonton Fiction Bestsellers list, March 10, 2019 "E.D. Blodgett's final book Nothing Is But You and I completes his life long poem Apostrophes with a rumination on life, fragility, and time....[T]he poems formally reflect on time and duration, death and whatever comes next as our human matter unravels." [Full review at https://canlit.ca/article/something-attentive/] Contents
1 Water
2 Trieste
4 Glass
5 Shells
6 Questions
7 A Woman Sitting
8 Winter's Night
9 Palestine
10 Skating
11 Aubade
12 Arriving
13 Hand
14 Lost
15 Creed
16 Church
17 Thresholds
18 Prayers
19 Departure
20 Beaches
21 Openings
22 Singer
23 Sarabande
24 Dreamt
25 Stream
26 Disappearing
27 Temple
28 Tapestry
29 Winter Dreams
30 Eternities
31 Barely
32 Rooms
33 Herons
34 Vodník
35 Frieze
36 Pool
37 Fountain
38 Last Apostrophe
39 Sentinels
40 Opened
41 Moonlight
42 Surrendered
43 Weeping
44 Heaven
45 Beginning
46 Predestined
47 Soror
48 Ghosts
49 Grasped
50 Boys
51 Swan Song
52 Encompassed
53 Bowl
54 Abiding
55 Flowering
56 Unfolding
57 Echoed
58 Star
59 Apple Trees
60 Waiting Again
61 Sky
62 Dissolution
63 Echoing
64 Seeking
65 Polaris
66 Childhood
67 Undecided
68 Epilogue
