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In the black window : new and selected poems / Michael Van Walleghen.
LIBRA PS3572.A545 I5 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Van Walleghen, Michael, 1938-2022.
- Series:
- Illinois poetry series
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 191 pages ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2004]
- Summary:
- The title of Michael Van Walleghen's new collection evokes thematic preoccupations that have shadowed him throughout his long career. In the Black Window, appearing as a phrase in the poems themselves, more generally points to Van Walleghen's enduring interest in the intersection of inner and outer worlds of experience--those liminal moments in other worlds where we become aware of ourselves. We live at once in a strictly personal, material dimension but also in a distinctly spiritual one. Yet, when looking from a lighted kitchen into a night-black window on a winter evening, we might become suddenly aware not only of our own reflection, but also of our complicity in some deeper mystery. Often quirky, odd, and disturbing, these poems also exemplify some of the most elegant formal free verse to be found in contemporary American poetry.
- Contents:
- New Poems (2003)
- Fidelity 3
- Taps 6
- The Ex 9
- Coyote 12
- Orchids 16
- Once More with Mother on the Beach 20
- Three-Ring Circus 24
- When ... 27
- Ego 30
- Coelacanth 33
- The Other Shoe 35
- Light Takes the Tree 37
- The Franz Kafka Fellowship Hotel 40
- The Former Life 43
- Transformer 46
- Fixer-Upper 49
- Persimmon Fjord 51
- The Man in the Diving Suit 53
- Happiness 56
- The Wichita Poems (1975)
- The Light 61
- A Good Excuse 62
- The Permanence of Witches 63
- The Alligators 65
- Frankenstein's 4:00 A.M. Lament; or, The Man Who Lives Downstairs 67
- More Trouble with the Obvious (1981)
- More Trouble with the Obvious 71
- Crabapples 73
- The Sibyl at Snug Harbor 75
- The Fisherman 77
- The Honeymoon of the Muse 79
- Walking the Baby to the Liquor Store 81
- Fun at Crystal Lake 83
- Driving into Enid 85
- Arizona Movies 87
- Blue Tango (1989)
- The Age of Reason 95
- The Spoiled Child 98
- The Afterlife 101
- Meat 103
- Lake Limbo 105
- Blue Tango 107
- Bowling Alley 110
- Hold It 112
- Hanging On like Death 116
- Fishing with Children 118
- Creative Writing 120
- Hamburger Heaven 122
- Atlantis 124
- Tall Birds Stalking (1994)
- Adios Zarathustra 129
- The Awards Banquet 132
- In the Chariot Drawn by Dragons 137
- Crawlspace 139
- Late 141
- Tall Birds Stalking 143
- Uncomfortable Procedures 149
- The Last Neanderthal (1999)
- Clarity 155
- The Elephant in Winter 158
- Periscope 161
- Beauty 164
- Twilight of the Neanderthals 167
- Ghost 173
- Shangri-La 175
- In the Company of Manatees 178
- The Last Neanderthal 181.
- ISBN:
- 0252029216
- 0252071786
- OCLC:
- 53138862
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