Red strawberry leaf : selected poems, 1994-2001 / John Peck.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Peck, John, 1941-

Series:

Phoenix poets

Language:

English

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

xi, 137 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2005.

Summary:

The poems in "Red Strawberry Leaf "speak in a voice unique in American letters, moving effortlessly beyond arbitrary city limits and national borders, transcending trends, continents, and eras to connect individual states of mind to the whole of Western culture. Written over seven years, "Red Strawberry Leaf "meditates on the spirit's engagement with the world in an allusive, personal style, in which neither the personal nor the tribal holds pride of place. Scattered touches of apocalypse and dark collective inventories serve only to highlight moments of burnished, lyric brilliance. These challenging poems will reward readers many times over.

Contents:

July 3

Barn Doorway in July 5

Inhaling the Pequot Dynasties 7

The Bench at Fontainebleau 9

Medley of the Cut 12

A Twenty-fourth Poem about Horses 16

Thucydides 21

The Granite Steps at Sunrise 27

Three Tongues 29

Pines and Hemlocks 35

Heaven after Moving House 37

Anangke 39

Letter to Hermann Broch, December 2001 42

A Metal Denser than, and Liquid 56

Barges at Koblenz, 1986 61

At the Atom Plant near Vernon, Vermont 63

Transmission Lines 65

Single Wing 74

Conus Marmoreus, Night Piece, Rembrandt 79

San Andrean One 82

San Andrean Two 93

Carnival, Luzern, 1984 107

Inkbrush Strophe and Antistrophe for Juditha, 2000 109

Porter of the Oar 111

Max Beckmann 114

Little Ode on Wheat 117

Eclogue 119

Little Testimony at Fruitlands, Massachusetts 121

Rhyming with Davie's Sonnet in Mandelshtam's Hope for the Best 125

A Stock-Taking

Inventoriable 126

Walter Benjamin's Hope for the Best 127

Unfinished Announcement 130

Adventus 133

Passage 135.

ISBN:

0226652947

0226652955

OCLC:

55981478