Bibliographic record
Abstract
Sally Ito. Alert to Glory. Winnipeg: Turnstone Press, 2011.85 pp. $17.00 sc. The title of Sally Ito's book, Alert to Glory, wittily describes both state of consciousness her poems explore and purpose of collection as a whole. Ito's poems explore what it means to be alert in its adjectival sense--to be fully attentive. The collection as a whole also announcement to look out for something (OED, s.v. alert), definition of alert as a noun. Ito's title signals seriousness with which this book takes relationship between sacred insight and poetry as well as wit with which she considers this relationship. The first section, Eye, The King, focuses on sacred insight. In Apprehend, Ito insists that To apprehend / surely one of God's commandments to steward, that poet, / who in his hour as policeman might enjoy brief moment / of a world in fetters for him. The poet's task not to possess or own world nor, it would seem, to comprehend it: poet's constant state alertness and watching until the world be seized / and God makes a wonder of his heart. Ito appeals to senses in order to describe divine, rejecting notion that contemplation demands a denial of physicality. The most striking example occurs in Awe, which describes Such moments / when mind-bell struck dumb and hollow fills / with shuddering sound, come and again. / Ordinary awe compels as suddenly as it recedes /--a wave that enters, sweeps away, sometimes returns.,' The repetition of once and again mimics reverberation of bell, marking a shift from a wave of sound one might hear to a wave of sound one might feel. Ito's imagery throughout this section suggests that poetry can provide sacred insight by alerting senses through imagery. The second section, Hunger and Innocence considers role that poetry and poets might play in alerting others to glory by employing voice in diverse ways. Whereas first-person personal pronoun only appears in first section as part of reported speech, it first word in Sister Candida, which opens second section. The first three poems in this section seem to provide an intimate glimpse into mind of a speaking I. The fourth poem in section, Bisque, returns to second-person pronoun to depict a dream have following death of poet Margaret Avison, who is leading you to heaven / she remembers poetry was for her. This poem's use of second person allows speaker (or poet--Ito intimately familiar with Avison's work) to project intimate feelings elsewhere, yet it also implies that some experiences demand that one relinquishes self. …
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.514 | 0.438 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".