Double life : poems / Daniel Tobin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tobin, Daniel.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Penn Provenance:

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

Physical Description:

53 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2004.

Summary:

Daniel Tobin's stunning new collection, Double Life, takes its name from a vision of humanity at once passionately earthbound and spurred by the metaphysical. These poems range from haunting meditations on the paintings of Hieronymous Bosch to an astonishing polyphonic sequence based on the life of Father Bartolomeo de Las Casas, who died in 1566 and wrote the first bill of rights in the New World. Between these two longer orchestrations appear works both musically diverse and startling in their formal virtuosity, as attuned to Plato, the Bible, Dante, Shakespeare, Keats, and the natural world as to TV talks shows, the news, physics, movies, and fast-food restaurants. From the persona of an Irish-Catholic Brooklyn youth on a school trip to Spain to that of a grown man of the suburbs "hollowed by doubt . . . / it's only the observance / of words I keep now to stay the soul," Tobin shows us the search for a way to encompass the world, turning Christian motifs toward new meanings.

Contents:

1 Homage to Bosch 1

2 Keats's Coffee Shoppe 6

The Bite 7

Articles of Faith 8

Near Forty 10

Human 11

As in a Shaded Bower 13

Lakeviews 14

3 Return 17

Rooms 19

House-Hunting 21

Miranda 23

Two Playthings 26

Root River 27

4 No Boundary 29

The Locksmith 31

Myth of the Flood 33

Days of Creation 34

Five Exegetical Poems 35

The Visit 38

The Hunt Cup 40

Deep Shit 41

5 Homage to Bartolome de Las Casas 43.

ISBN:

0807129550

0807129569

OCLC:

52602750