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Trouble lights / William Olsen.
Van Pelt Library PS3565.L822 T76 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Olsen, William, 1954-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nature--Poetry.
- Nature.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 89 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Evanston, Ill. : Triquarterly Books/Northwestern University Press, 2002.
- Summary:
- Traveling from the rural Midwest and Chicago, his mythic childhood city, to the outposts of Cornwall and far-off Guangzhou, William Olsen searches for the miracle of wholeness in the small details. An urgency inhabits his poems as they lament and protest a pandemic disrespect for all things natural and the replacement of such with material progress. Olsen seeks to make a truly substantial inquiry into human existence, which leads him to test the adequacy of language. Filling his verses with a dazzling language that challenges, transports, questions, and intoxicates, he thus creates a genuine surrealism. His meditations on contemporary life are bleak but fiercely truthful -- providing that paradox of literature, the exhilaration of feeling even when reading of the tragic. It is Olsen's distinct awe for our universe that offers hope for retrieving all that is being lost.
- Contents:
- The Fold-Out Atlas of the Human Body: A Three-Dimensional Book for Readers of All Ages 5
- The Human Heart 7
- Mercy 9
- Kresge's, 1963 11
- Deer Traffic 15
- Ghost Forest 19
- Car Crashes 20
- The Past 22
- Ruin Outlasting Sorrow 23
- St. Ives, Winter Night 26
- Holbein's Christ, with Geese and the Irish Sea 27
- On Prophecy 32
- The Storm Chasers 35
- Explosion 38
- Cryometer 40
- Kiss Me Deadly 45
- Fireflies in the New World 46
- Astonish Means "To Set the Teeth on Edge" 49
- To a Fly 53
- To the Hummingbirds from the 1893 Columbian Exposition, Chicago 54
- Electric Church 58
- Death of the Blues 61
- Le Grand Style 62
- On Eckhart, and a Moose 66
- On Plans to Decimate the Entire British Herd 71
- Indigo Bay 72
- Face 74
- Smoke from My Mother's Mouth 77
- To a Godchild 79
- Voices from near Dr. Syntax's Head 84
- Black Globe 86.
- ISBN:
- 0810151065
- 0810151073
- OCLC:
- 48517501
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