The tenor on horseback : poems / by Christopher Middleton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Middleton, Christopher, 1926-2015.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

83 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Riverdale-on-Hudson, N.Y. : Sheep Meadow Press : Distributed by the University Press of New England, [2007]

Summary:

Following Tankard Cat (The Anti-Basilisk), the encrypted story this time is of thought desirous of levitation gradually crashing. The poems are, for the most part, addressed to facts. Diverse, sometimes prosaic, they also address desolation thrust upon us by atrocious facts-negatives that assault arduously civilized life. Yet some poems are not so shadowed. Among organizing figures the ship recurs, in its element, with extensions, e.g., the river, as in the verbatim (thus also factual) found poem 'Felo de se'. Whether or not "audiences" catch their auditory features, there exists a growing body of readers who remember and cherish Christopher Middleton's poems.

Contents:

For Preface a Lacuna 3

The Part of Gravity 5

The Poem Lost 7

Body Count 8

A Pair of Herons 9

A Sonnet of Nice Goats 10

Keyboard 11

This Confidence 12

The Tenor on Horseback 13

Metapontum: The Necropolis 16

Saying Goodnight to Kate 17

The First Portrait 19

Orbiana 21

The Aquinas Anecdote 24

Pseudo-Paracelsus 26

Imagine Mallarme 27

Chekhov at Sumy 29

Chekhov in a Park 31

Judge Bean 33

Felo de se 35

Senex 37

The Whelk 39

Ancient Emigre (Irish) 41

Elegy with Offenbach 43

Pictogram for a Maquisard 46

Election Eve in the Lord's Republic 47

Against Frenzy 49

A Paper Snake 51

The Wine Merchant's Secret 53

The Incident 55

Whatever Moves 56

The Wind-Chimes 58

Small Change, AD 147-8 59

The Brink 61

Homily with Reeds 62

Marginalia

The Third Man Reconsidered 65

A Demon Sniggering 68

A Happy Captain 70

Bouillons 71

Of Adverse Atmospheres 75

From the Cat 77

Exile (from the French of Leon-Paul Fargue) 78

In Memory of W.G. Sebald 82.

ISBN:

1931357498

9781931357494

OCLC:

76871615