The next bend in the road / Michael Fried.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fried, Michael.

Series:

Phoenix poets

Language:

English

Physical Description:

xiii, 85 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2004.

Summary:

"In America today there is no lyric work more compelling and well made than "To the Center of the Earth," Allen Grossman wrote ten years ago of Michael Fried's last collection of poetry. Fried's new book, "The Next Bend in the Road, is a powerfully coherent gathering of lyric and prose poems that has the internal scope of a novel with a host of characters, from the poet's wife and daughter to Franz Kafka, Paul Cezanne, Osip Mandelstam, Sigmund Freud, Gisele Lestrange, and many others; transformative encounters with works of art, literature, and philosophy, including Heinrich von Kleist's "The Earthquake in Chile," Giuseppe Ungaretti's "Veglia," and Edouard Manet's Le Dejeuner sur l'herbe; and, running through the book from beginning to end, a haunted awareness of the entanglement of the noblest accomplishments and the most intimate joys with the horrors of modern history.

Contents:

I The Send-Off

Days of the Comet 4

The Alhambra 6

The Tunnel 7

April 4, 1968 8

In the White Swan Hotel, Guangzhou 9

The Kites 10

Greek Restaurant 11

Cezanne 12

Care 13

Kafka's Drawings 15

The Realm of Spirit 16

The Chase 17

Before a Duel 18

Papyrus 19

The Drought 20

The Rape of Nanking 21

The Glare 22

Gisele Lestrange 23

The Meadow 24

Due North 26

The Dream 27

II The Next Bend in the Road

The Next Bend in the Road 31

Tsvetayeva's Letters 32

The Curvature of the Earth 33

"The Earthquake in Chile" 34

The New Year 36

Noa-Noa 37

The End of History 38

The Ring 39

A Night at the Opera 40

The Notebook 41

The Immortals 42

The Visitor from the Future 43

When You Enter the Room 44

The Essence of Poetry 45

Full Moonlight 46

The Drowned and the Saved 47

Outskirts of Berlin, May 1998 48

Aubade 49

Beauty Regardless 50

To Lily, a Calico Cat Who Died Before her Time 51

The Wound 52

III A Summer Night

The First Morning 55

The Flower 56

Last Visit from Ian Hamilton 57

The Hilltop 58

In Seattle 59

The Yellow Dress 60

The Thirty Years War 61

Freud's Sacrifice 62

Wittgenstein on Green 64

Fear and Trembling 65

For F. T. C. 66

Look Around 67

Marine 68

A Journey 69

"Le Dejeuner sur l'herbe" 70

"Flesh" 72

Yellow Crane Tower 74

The Fountain 75

A Summer Night 76

The Smoke-Bush 78

Song 79

The Winds of Dawn 80.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 81-85).

ISBN:

0226263231

0226263258

OCLC:

52806273