Glass-bottom boat : poems / Herman Asarnow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Asarnow, Herman.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

x, 82 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Higganum, Conn. : Higganum Hill Books, [2007]

Summary:

Focusing on linguistic anomalies, this collection of contemporary poetry explores language as a vehicle to express disjunctive perceptions of American culture. The carefully grounded language of these poems focuses on what is rarely seen: the familiar that is palpable, yet obscure in death, love, and the material world, jarring the reader into seeing through the glass to deeper and darker things.

Contents:

I Exposed to the Elements

Driving in My Convertible, Exposed to the Elements 3

Glass-Bottom Boat 4

Clockshop, Nepaug Reservoir 5

Double Helix 7

What the Trees Say About Love 10

Year 48-3:00 A. M. 11

Letting in the Horse 13

Panorama 15

Viewing Antiquities in the Studio of Humility 17

The Camellia's Story 18

Resistance 19

Play It With Feeling 20

Panoramas 23

Facing 24

The Hand of Silence 26

Seeking Home 28

Star 29

II Luncheon at the Ritz

Cause and Effect Cafe 33

Luncheon at the Ritz 35

Poison, flower 37

Frozen Frame 39

Thruway 40

Le Merveilleux 42

This Hazy Light 44

Reconciliation 45

Magnolia Soulangiana 46

The Burning Pond 48

Into the Mysterious Whir 49

Ode to Joy: An Ovation 50

Surrendering to the Air 52

Mystere Chinois 53

Kind of Blue 55

"Too Marvelous for Words" 56

Bent Elm 57

Blue Light Special 59

III The bowl, the vase, the urn

The bowl, the vase, the urn 63

What to Keep 65

The Black Horses 66

On the lips 67

Double Fault 69

Hope 71

Sun/Moon 72

Daylight Darkness 74

Witch Hazel 76

Argument [Empirical] Favoring the Existence of a Soul 77

Notice 79

Aubade: Drooling 80.

ISBN:

9780977655649

0977655644

OCLC:

76898092