Bene-dictions: PoemsUniversity of North Texas Press, 2003 - 64 Seiten Winner of the Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry, 2002. In these dramatic poems, the agon pits ideas against the lurch and drift of bodies. Both are necessary, as the hand is necessary to write the poem, and both are reconciled here by a sensitivity to the pleasures of melodic form. |
Inhalt
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Are Academics Funny? | 9 |
The Utility of Fables | 13 |
To the Former Lover Who Teaches People in England to Think | 19 |
Greta Garbo in Dark Glasses | 22 |
Intellectuals at Dinner | 24 |
Museum Logic | 40 |
Camera Obscura | 42 |
Why This Poem? | 43 |
Like Braille | 44 |
The Largesse of Possibility | 45 |
After Halloween | 47 |
PROPTER HOC | 49 |
Tourist Attractions | 50 |
SEISMOGRAPHIA | 27 |
Ghost among the Branches | 28 |
Carnophilia | 30 |
A TouchandGo Process | 33 |
Gesundheit | 35 |
Reading Palms | 38 |
Zenos Paradox | 51 |
Whats Repeated | 52 |
8888888888 | 53 |
Form and Content | 60 |
AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT | 63 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
absorbed her mute AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT blind person Braille brain Buddhist café Camera Obscura Carnophilia Dark Glasses dazed dead death drink dusk eager echo endearing exposed flash flesh focus frantic Garbo in Dark Gesundheit ghost glowing grace Greta Garbo groans to tenderness gurgle Halloween Henry James hoped would retain idea invisible Kelly Spires Kelly's Largesse of Possibility lazily adjusted light limp lives Lorca Lover Who Teaches matter Mea Culpas Michelangelo mind mist moving her hand mystery naive Nietzsche night novel oblivious pain penis Philosophic time reduces poem poet held Kelly poet pictured poet's pressure probing finger absorbed put a spell Reading Palms reduces all groans retain that imprint scream secret SEISMOGRAPHIA Selected shiny silhouette sipping skin slow motion smiled space stopped touching talk thinker Touch-and-Go Process tourists trance trees tricky labyrinth Utility of Fables vague Vassar Miller Prize What's Repeated words Zeno's Paradox
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 5 - Not for a moment could I now behold A smiling sea, and be what I have been: The feeling of my loss will ne'er be old; This, which I know, I speak with mind serene.