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Tantalus in love / Alan Shapiro.
Van Pelt Library PS3569.H338 T36 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shapiro, Alan, 1952-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Love poetry, American.
- Divorce--Poetry.
- Divorce.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- 87 pages ; 22 cm
- Other Title:
- Tantalus in love : poems
- Place of Publication:
- Boston, Mass. : Houghton Mifflin, 2005.
- Summary:
- Tantalus in Love begins with the disintegration of a marriage, with anger and suspicion. But from sorrow Shapiro moves on to celebrate the resilience of love after loss, and the awakening glory of an amorous middle age. In "Invocation" he writes, "Love...let there be never again / a moment in which / your sudden shining isn't / sudden." These poems yearn with hesitant love, heated at renewal, fragile but intensified by past experience of love's evanescence and uncertainty. "Iris / love flower of the middle-aged...the stalk / bends under the unexpected weight...how did I ever live without you?" Tantalus in Love reinvents myth and symbol in lyrical portraits of astounding resonance, illuminating this defining vulnerability of humanity.
- Recently honored with an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, Shapiro is one of the most significant and acclaimed poets of his generation. As Mark Doty writes, "Alan Shapiro has been writing some of the smartest, most formally acute poetry in America, books alive with feeling."
- Contents:
- Invocation 1
- Tantalus in Love 5
- Lily Pond 17
- Anger 20
- Takeoff 26
- The Haunting 27
- Space Dog 30
- Instruction 32
- That and This 35
- A Parting Gift 38
- Hearth Keeper 41
- Amarant 43
- Medley 46
- Cape Ann 47
- Lookout 50
- Ghost Watch 52
- Bounty 54
- Lament 56
- Desert Water 58
- Super Bowl Party 60
- On Having to Stop 66
- Premonition 68
- Actaeon and Diana 70
- Iris 75
- Protest 77
- Yes and No 80
- Sunflower 82
- The Conversation 84.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 2 has dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0618452427
- OCLC:
- 56590826
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