Alexandria / Jasmine V. Bailey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bailey, Jasmine V., author.

Series:

Carnegie Mellon poetry

Carnegie Mellon poetry series

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

American poetry.

Physical Description:

72 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh : Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2014.

Summary:

In Alexandria, Jasmine V. Bailey has written a string of love poems, islands in an archipelago that emerges with each poem's brief story. In a voice at times detached and wistful and sometimes ringing with ardor, these poems keenly remember sexual desire and male beauty, weaving them into observations that are quietly political or fiercely existential.

Contents:

Part 1

Archipelago 13

Poem After Summer 14

Sugar Hollow 15

Bonsai 16

Sleep and What Precedes It 17

Morse 18

Shamrock Road 19

The Middle Kingdom 20

Boarding School 21

For a Tall Man 22

The Strength of Young Men to Throw Things 23

Val de Loire 24

Star of David 25

Canary 26

Sometime Galatea 27

My Viardot 28

Evidence of Autumn 29

Part 2

Migration 33

Empress, Concubine 34

Calligraphy 35

Two Autumns 36

Apologia 38

Wildwood 39

After Saratoga 40

The Eumenides 41

Days of Aggressive Geese 42

Champlain 43

Delphi 44

Santa Rosa, La Pampa 45

Woodcutter 46

Sycamore 47

Dreaming in January 48

Gold Dust 49

The Nonchalant, the Infinite 51

After Refusing You, Again 52

Part 3

Dendrology 55

Charon 56

A Writing Instructor Begins in the World 57

Coalescence 58

For Helen 59

Enkidu 60

On Roads That Cars Don't Use 61

Six Years On 62

Art History 63

Concerning Gorky's The Artist and His Mother 64

Cocibolca 65

Obeisance for Ancestors 66

Intercessors 67

After Ryokan 68

Sama' 69

Preparing to Leave Virginia 70

Hiking the Lake Placid Trail 71

Alexandria 72.

Notes:

Poems.

ISBN:

0887485766

9780887485763

OCLC:

862349039