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Buffalo yoga / Charles Wright.
Van Pelt Library PS3573.R52 B84 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wright, Charles, 1935-
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- viii, 76 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004.
- Summary:
- "The sun has set behind the Blue Ridge, " "And evening with its blotting paper" " lifts off the light." "Shadowy yards. Moon through the white pines" --"Landscape with Missing Overtones" Never has Charles Wright's vision been more closely aligned with the work of the ancient Chinese painters and writers who inform his poetry than in his newest collection. Wright's short lyrics, in Charles Simic's words, "achieve a level of eloquence where the reader says to himself, if this is not wisdom, I don't know what is" ("The New York Review of Books"). The poems in" Buffalo Yoga" are pristine examples of the Tennessee poet's deft, painterly touch--"crows in a caterwaul" are "scored like black notes in the bare oak"--and his oblique, expansive, and profound interrogation of mortality, as in the title sequence, where the soul is "a rhythmical knot. / That form unties. Or reties."
- Contents:
- Proems
- Landscape with Missing Overtones 3
- There Is a Balm in Gilead 4
- Portrait of the Artist / Li Shang-Yin 6
- Buffalo Yoga
- Buffalo Yoga 9
- Buffalo Yoga Codas
- Buffalo Yoga Coda I 25
- Buffalo Yoga Coda II 28
- Buffalo Yoga Coda III 31
- Snake Eyes
- The Gospel According to St. Someone 37
- Homage to Mark Rothko 38
- Portrait of the Artist in a Prospect of Stone 40
- Rosso Venexiano 43
- Words Are the Diminution of All Things 45
- Arrivederci Kingsport 46
- January II 49
- Dio Ed Io 50
- Nostalgia III 52
- In Praise of Thomas Chatterton 53
- Charles Wright and the 940 Locust Avenue Heraclitean Rhythm Band 54
- Saturday Afternoon 56
- Wednesday Morning 58
- Homage to Giorgio Morandi 60
- Little Apocalypse 62
- Snake Eyes 63
- My Own Little Civil War 64
- La Dolceamara Vita 67
- Sun-Saddled, Coke-Copping, Bad-Boozing Blues 68
- Sinology 70
- Little Apokatastasis 73
- Star Turn III 74
- In Praise of Han Shan 76.
- ISBN:
- 0374117284
- OCLC:
- 52347513
- Online:
- Publisher description
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