Rebel angels : 25 poets of the new formalism / edited by Mark Jarman & David Mason.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Jarman, Mark, 1952- editor.

Mason, David, 1954- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

New Formalism (American poetry).

Literary form--History--20th century.

Literary form.

History.

Genre:

History.

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xx, 259 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Brownsville, OR : Story Line Press, 1996.

Summary:

Contributors include: Elizabeth Alexander Julia Alvarez Bruce Bawer Rafael Campo Thomas M. Disch Frederick Feirstein Dana Gioia Emily Grosholz Robert Samuel Gwynn Marilyn Hacker Rachel Hadas Andrew Hudgins Paul Lake Sydney Lea Brad Leithauser Phillis Levin Charles Martin Marilyn Nelson Molly Peacock Wyatt Prunty Mary Jo Salter Timothy Reid Steele Frederick Turner Rachel Wetzsteon Greg Williamson

Contents:

Who I think you are ; Deadwood Dick ; Letter : Blues / Elizabeth Alexander

How I learned to sweep ; Woman's work ; from 33 / Julia Alvarez

View from an airplane at night over California ; On leaving the artist's colony ; Grand Central Station, 20 December 1987 / Bruce Bawer

For J.W. ; Aunt Toni's heart ; Allegory ; El día de los muertos / Rafael Campo

Entropic villanelle ; The rapist's villanelle ; Convalescing in London; Zewhyexary ; A bookmark ; The clouds ; Ballade of the new god / Tom Disch

The rune-maker ; Mark Stern wakes up ; Mark Stern / Frederick Feirstein

Lives of the great composers ; The country wife ; Counting the children ; Guide to the other gallery ; Maze without a minotaur ; My confessional sestina ; Summer storm / Dana Gioia

On the ferry, toward Patras ; Remembering the Ardèche ; The old fisherman ; The Outer Banks ; Back trouble ; Life of a salesman ; Eden / Emily Grosholz

Among Philistines ; Anacreontic ; The drive-in ; Approaching a significant birthday, he peruses The Norton anthology of poetry ; Body bags ; The classroom at the mall ; Release / R.S. Gwynn

Wagers ; "Did you love well what very soon you left?" ; Nights of 1964-1966 : the old reliable ; Rune of the Finland woman ; Elevens ; Elysian Fields ; Cancer winter / Marilyn Hacker

Journey out ; Sentimental education ; Moments of summer ; Three silences ; The red hat / Rachel Hadas

Saints and strangers ; The hereafter ; Dead Christ ; Praying drunk ; Two ember days in Alabama ; Elegy for my father, who is not dead ; The telling / Andrew Hudgins

Crime and punishment ; Blue jay ; In rough weather ; Introduction to poetry / Paul Lake

The feud ; The wrong way will haunt you ; Telescope ; At the flyfisher's shack ; Clouded evening, late September ; Insomnia : the distances / Sydney Lea.

Post-coitum tristesse : a sonnet ; The haunted ; The ghost of a ghost ; Old bachelor brother / Brad Leithauser

The shadow returns ; A meeting of friends ; The lost bee ; Night coach / Phillis Levin

Satyr, cunnilinguent : to Herman Melville ; Sharks at the New York Aquarium ; Speech against stone ; Metaphor of grass in California ; E.S.L. ; Easter Sunday, 1985 ; Victoria's secret / Charles Martin

Balance ; Chopin ; The ballad of Aunt Geneva / Marilyn Nelson

Desire ; Those paperweights with snow inside ; How I come to you ; Dream come true ; The wheel ; Have you ever faked an orgasm? ; The return / Molly Peacock

A winter's tale ; Insomnia ; To be sung on the Fourth of July ; The ferris wheel ; Elderly lady crossing on green ; A note of thanks ; Reading before we read : horoscope and weather / Wyatt Prunty

Welcome to Hiroshima ; What do women want? ; Summer 1983 ; Frost at midnight / Mary Jo Salter

The Wartburg, 1521-22 ; In the King's rooms ; Timothy ; An aubade ; Eros ; The library ; Joseph / Timothy Steele

Spring evening ; April wind ; On the pains of translating Miklós Radnóti / Frederick Turner

Three songs ; Three songs ; Dinner at Le Caprice / Rachel Wetzsteon

Walter Parmer ; The counterfeiter ; Waterfall ; Annual returns / Greg Williamson.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-254).

Other Format:

Online version: Rebel angels.

ISBN:

1885266332

9781885266330

1885266308

9781885266309

OCLC:

35159257