Brave disguises / Gray Jacobik.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jacobik, Gray.

Series:

Pitt poetry series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--Women authors.

American poetry.

Physical Description:

viii, 80 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2002]

Summary:

Mirroring the Structure of a Pollock painting, elegizing Larry Levis and avocados, reflecting on Johnny Depp's "terribly surreal" life, embarking upon a seventy-two-line meditation on the color blue, exposing a lover's -- or a mother's -- secrets, Gray Jacobik's poems are mature, elegant, and crackling with energy.

Contents:

Surrealisme 3

Existence as Performance 5

Pollock's Paintings 7

Meditation in Blue 9

Lilies 12

The 750 Hands 13

Drawings: Seventeenth-Century Dutch Landscapes 14

The Clarinetist 16

Of Cos Cob in Snow 17

An End of the Millennium Party 18

The Shabby Truth 23

Venetian Light 25

The Tapeworm 27

A Paradox 28

Forgetting David Weinstock 29

Night of the Great Outpouring 32

The Aftermath 34

The Power Outage 35

Early October, Looking at Flowers 36

Man Sleeping on the West Coast of Ireland 37

A Simple Request 39

The Three Eyes 40

The Frightful Allure 41

Three Friends 43

Breasts 45

Angel Sex 49

Bevy (Origin Unknown) 51

Sketch for an Elegy with Avocados and Clouds 52

The Theory of Non-Elephants 54

Vet

Will Work for Food

Have Family 56

Unlikely Events 58

Neologisms 59

Pigs on the Town 61

The Lizard Man 63

The Cocks of the Grandfathers of Kansas 64

Cold Constellations 65

On the Irish Coast 67

Driving State Highway 67 68

Sweeping Sorrows 70

Ode to the Breeze 72

Considerations on a Windy Day 73

Beauty's Embrace 75.

ISBN:

0822957884

OCLC:

50281199