Talking cures : new poems / Richard Howard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Howard, Richard, 1929-2022.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

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

Howard, Richard, 1929- (autograph) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

115 pages ; 19 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Turtle Point Press, [2002]

Summary:

Howard's title for his new collection is the old name for psychoanalysis, and alludes to the therapeutic powers of speech under controlled circumstances.

For the most part these poems are spoken out of a solitude into a solitude, but passing through a company of some order, some chaos.

There are a number of the poet's ecphrastic studies, to be expected in any of Howard's books since his Pulitzer Prize collection Untitled Subjects (1970), and an ecphrastic variation: five poems spoken by early twentieth-century masters (James, Conrad, Meredith, Kipling, Cather) about movies they have seen -- in certain cases from the Other Side -- and regarded with varying suspicion.

Several poems concern our relations with dogs -- commercial, affective, and in the case of Freud, to round off the psychoanalytical theme, tragic. Yet a comic atmosphere pervades, though it is not certain to what degree the laughter is a comfort, the wit a solace. It is to be hoped, finally, that the stress falls on the second word of the title.

Contents:

Odysseys

A Fugitive 1

Displaced Person 3

Phallacies I Another Translator 5

Phallacies II Close Encounters of Another Kind 7

Fallacies of Wonder 10

Phallacies III Measure for Measure 14

The Apotropaist 21

Phallacies IV Success 24

Phallacies V Hanging the Artist 26

Changes: Dragon-Flies to Flying Dragons 30

Phallacies VI Colossal 36

Phallacies VII Another Modest Proposal 38

Portrait in Pastel of the Volunteer Friedrich-August Klaatsch, 1813 40

Phallacies VIII Joining 45

Phallacies IX Keeping 48

The Masters on the Movies

Henry James on Now, Voyager 51

Joseph Conrad on Lost Horizon 53

George Meredith on Woman of the Year 55

Rudyard Kipling on King Kong 57

Willa Cather on Queen Christina 60

Further Echoes of the Late Lord Leighton 63

Five Communications

Strayed in Translation 67

Two Ways to Skin a Catalogue 74

In-House Memo 78

Reassurance 80

The Apodosis 85

A Table of Green Fields 89

Infirmities 92

Knowing When To Stop 109

Elementary Principles at Seventy-Two 115.

Notes:

Poems.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy signed by the author.

ISBN:

1885586701

OCLC:

50820991