The hidden model / David Yezzi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yezzi, David.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

xii, 75 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Evanston, Ill. : TriQuarterly Books, [2003]

Summary:

From the huddling men in a Rembrandt print to an image in a bathroom mirror that might be Christ or a mere smudge, David Yezzi, with his precisely carved and subtly cutting language, questions and considers the surfaces of our perceptions and the life they conceal-that which suggests, asks, demands to be seen. In this deeply philosophical book, Yezzi deploys a mobile intelligence that reaches from the world of art to the landscape of the mind's cravings and demonstrates a capacious gift for using the formal techniques of poetry in unobtrusive and captivating ways, rendering verse that is both poetically rich and emotionally charged

Contents:

Beatitudes of Poverty 5

Morandi's Bottles 6

Woman Holding a Fox 7

Chinese New Year 10

Chekhovian Landscape 12

Exit Pursued 14

Aporias 16

The Hidden Model 19

Lini 23

Conversation of the Pharisees 24

The Graven Image 26

Vertigo in St. Paul's 28

Hand to Mouth 29

Foundry Road 32

What to Do with a Mountain Lake 35

Sad Is Eros, Builder of Cities 39

Allegro 40

On a Cliff above Seal Rocks 43

On a Mandarin Inscription 44

Epithalamium 45

Superstition 47

Letter to L.A. 48

Upon Julia's Breasts 52

Bicoastal 55

Casco Passage 56

Red Shift 59

His Boat 60

Nostalgia for a New City 65

Invention with Seascape 66

Oracle of the Great Oak 67

Gracie Pier 70

The Double 72.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (page 75) and index.

ISBN:

0810151448

0810151456

OCLC:

52799581