Jeopardy / Gregory Warren Wilson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wilson, Gregory Warren, 1956-

Language:

English

Physical Description:

99 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Enitharmon Press ; Chester Springs, PA : Distributed in the USA and Canada by Dufour Editions, 2003.

Summary:

Having studied violin and composition for a number of years. British poet Gregory Warren Wilson's third collection has an energy, zest, and brilliance to it. The poems suggest that disclosure--whether of love or anguish--is hazardous because it can betray as well as illumine. But which is more likely to put things in jeopardy: the outspoken or the unspoken? The second half of this collection is voiced trough a ventriloquist's dummy. It exposes the desolation, frustration, and fleeting euphoria experienced by a performer on stage and off. For lovers of words and music. Warren Wilson's direct and insistent voice is sure to captivate and entertain.

Contents:

Jeopardy

The Sculpture Garden's Closure 13

Foreign Tongue 14

Five Hen Eggs in a Terracotta Bowl 16

Field of Vision 17

Leave-taking 18

The Invisible Colourist 20

The Unsung Mechanisms 22

Florence Foster Jenkins 24

Seven Songs from the Minotaur's Lover 26

Canary Lanterns 29

Relative Values 30

The Grass Beds 32

Waiting for Rain 34

Gravity, Longitude and Two Timepieces 35

On Taking a Chinese Ginger Jar Seriously 36

A Lamentable Catalogue Aria 37

High Rise Flat 38

The Unguarded 40

The Ungiven 42

Jeopardy 43

Subverting the Language of Flowers 44

The Lyre Bird and the Mynah Bird 45

Lunch with a Mermaid 46

Know the Feeling? 47

Letters on Glass 48

A Hair's Breadth 50

Shadowplay 51

The Point, the Turning 52

Staged Whispers

I Selective Mute 1 - 12 57

II Between Masks 1 - 6 75

III Opposite Prompt 1 - 10 83.

Notes:

Poems.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1900564637

OCLC:

52738915