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Genre/Form: | Poetry poetry Poésie |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
David Yezzi |
ISBN: | 9780887486357 0887486355 |
OCLC Number: | 1008759936 |
Description: | 72 pages ; 22 cm |
Contents: | 1. Night blind -- Living room -- Café future -- The chain -- New town -- Weeds -- Dying the day Prince died -- The consolations -- Meditation -- Tragedy -- Plague -- Stalker ; 2. Black Sea. I. Tomis -- II. White jasmine -- III. False holly -- IV. Patapsco -- V. The long coat -- VI. Truepenny -- VII. The drain -- VIII. Capgras -- IX. Low ceiling -- X. Aubade ; 3. On the death of a houseplant -- Hooked -- Crush -- The double deuce -- Mouse drawer -- Thud -- Tumor tree -- Old friends -- Sourdough -- The hug ; 4. Raking -- The able man -- Paper whites -- Let -- Low pressure -- Up high, no higher -- Keats in Louisville -- Pan Am -- Last job -- The faculty abroad -- Humblebrag -- The rock balancer. |
Series Title: | Carnegie Mellon poetry series |
Responsibility: | David Yezzi. |
Abstract:
"David Yezzi's fourth book of poems considers what it's like, during times of roiling change, to feel like a stranger on one's own street and in one's own country. This uprooting is partly geographic, partly psychic: what was familiar has become as foreign as the fabled Black Sea (the site of the Roman poet Ovid's exile). The emotional pressure of this dislocation pushes his poems into lyric fragments and mordant humor. Home, once a comfort, now hides a threat."--
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