Interrogation palace : new and selected poems 1982-2004 / David Wojahn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wojahn, David, 1953-

Series:

Pitt poetry series

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

201 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2006]

Summary:

A career-spanning selection of work by a widely respected American poet, including a generous gathering of new poems.

Contents:

I For the Poltergeists: New Poems

Board Book & the Costume of a Whooping Crane 3

Sawdust 6

For the Poltergeists 8

Radnoti in a Trench Coat 11

Theremin: Solo & Command Performance 13

Interrogation Palace 16

Scrabble with Matthews 19

Dithyramb and Lamentation 21

Homage to Blind Willie Johnson 31

II From Icehouse Lights, 1982

Distance 37

Glaucoma 38

The Precincts of Moonlight 41

Weldon Kees in Mexico, 1965 42

Cold Glow: Icehouses 44

III From Glassworks, 1987

"Satin Doll" 49

Pentecost 51

Dates, for Example 53

IV From Mystery Train, 1990

From "Mystery Train (A Sequence)" 59

Posthumous Life 81

Armageddon: Private Gabriel Calvin Wojahn, 1900-18 84

The Resurrection of the Dead, Port Glasgow, 1950 86

V From Late Empire, 1994

Late Empire 91

Homage to Ryszard Kapuscinski 94

White Lanterns 98

Photo of My Father in a Snowbound Train 105

Tomis 106

The First Six Seals 109

VI From The Falling Hour, 1997

Rajah in Babylon 115

Excavation Photo 118

After Wittgenstein 120

The Shades 123

God of Journeys and Secret Tidings 130

Stammer 131

Tractate for Doctor Tourette 133

Ghost Supper 135

Dirge and Descent 137

Oracle 139

Gallery IX: A Carved Bone Ring of Cormorants 142

Before the Words 144

VII From Spirit Cabinet, 2002

The Art of Poetry 149

Poison, 1959 151

And the Unclean Spirits Went Out of the Man, and Entered into Swine 153

Stalin's Library Card 154

The Ravenswood 161

After Propertius 164

Days of 1994 167

Spirit Cabinet 169

From "Crayola: A Sequence" 171

Can't You Spare Me Over? 185

Written on the Due Date of a Son Never Born 188

Triclinium: Couple Bending to a Burning Photo 189

Kill Born, Weed Smoke, Chk Mark, Onchola Senn 193.

ISBN:

0822959178

OCLC:

63170428