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Voodoo inverso / Mark Wagenaar.
Van Pelt Library PS3623.A3523 V66 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wagenaar, Mark.
- Series:
- Felix Pollak prize in poetry (Series)
- The Felix Pollak prize in poetry
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 105 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, 2012.
- Summary:
- In this debut collection, Voodoo Inverso, Mark Wagenaar composes a startling mystical imagism and sets it to music, using self-portraits to explore differing physical and spiritual landscapes. He uses a variety of personae-a victim of sex trafficking in Amsterdam, a fichera dancer, a portrait haunted by Dante, a carillonneur of starlight, an elephant in pink slippers remembering its beloved-to silhouette the intricacies and frailties of the body and the world. In a series of "gospels" and "histories"-such as the poems "History of Ecstasy" and "Moth Hour Gospel"-he shines a light on the possibilities of transcendence and transfiguration, weaving together memory and loss with desire and hope. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Part I Self-Portraits & Disappearances
- Chiropractic (Bootblacks & Lightbulbs) 3
- Spill 5
- The History of Ecstasy 6
- Errata 8
- Voodoo Inverso (Self-Portrait) 9
- Slow Migration Toward Ecstasy 10
- Nocturne Past Dreaming 12
- A Splinter of the Buddha's Tooth 13
- Portraits of the Artist with Montale 15
- A Parade of Ghosts 16
- The Other World 18
- Self-Portrait of the Artist as Io 19
- Portrait of the Artist with Dante 20
- Sun Goin' Down Bad Luck Blues 22
- Deer Hour Gospel 24
- The Way of All Flesh 26
- Dusk Hour Gospel (Each Poem Is a Poem of Exile) 28
- Part II The Litter Bearers
- Zen River Travel 33
- Tulip Mania (The New Numerology) 35
- History of Your Life in a Hair Strand 36
- "Raindrop" 37
- Elegiac Stanzas 38
- Gacela of the Wounds 40
- Consolations of the New Day 42
- Since You Asked 43
- A Blessing 44
- Preparing the Table 45
- Gacela of the Bright Omen 48
- A Life Buried in Water 50
- Six Prayer Kites over Rock Island 52
- The Butcher with Nothing But Bones 54
- Curio 56
- Revenant 58
- Film 101: Final Exam 59
- Survival Plans 61
- The Disciples Question Their Yogi 62
- Deep Image Hall of Fame 64
- The Joke 65
- Orpheus amongst the Fishbones 67
- Other Equations for Velocity 68
- Lines for a Thirtieth Birthday 69
- The Other Side of the Curtain 71
- Elegy with Two Lemons 74
- The Litter Bearers 76
- The Litter Bearers (II) 77
- Part III Aubades & Nocturnes
- Bat Hour Gospel 81
- Unknowable Aubade 82
- Early Hymn from Humpback Rock 83
- Nail Bed Gospel 85
- Bayadere Notturno 87
- Carnival Nocturne 89
- Domestic Nocturne 90
- Sixth Finger Gospel 91
- Filament 93
- Nocturne of a Thousand & One Notes 94
- Nocturne: Exit Music for a Film 96
- Thinking of Thomas a Kempis on a Fall Evening 97
- Unknowable Nocturne 99
- Reliquaries 100
- Moth Hour Gospel 104.
- Notes:
- Poems.
- ISBN:
- 9780299288143
- 0299288145
- 9780299288136
- 0299288137
- OCLC:
- 756767689
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