The incentive of the maggot : poems / Ron Slate ; [foreword by Robert Pinsky].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Slate, Ron.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--20th century.

American poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

xii, 67 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2005.

Summary:

In his prize-winning debut collection, Ron Slate seeks out the intersections of art, technology, and humanity with intelligence, wit, and fervor. His unique voice is informed by his world travels as a business executive. As Robert Pinsky writes in his introduction, Slate " brings together the personal and the global in a way that is distinctive, subtle, defying expectations about what is political and what is personal." In Slate's words, "Is this the end of the world? / No just the end / of the language that describes it." Recently published in The New Yorker, Slate has been praised by James Longenbach for his ability to " make the known world seem wickedly strange - a poetry that is utterly of the moment, our moment, because it sounds like nobody else."

Contents:

Foreword / Robert Pinsky

Writing off Argentina

The final call

Belgium

Small talk in Munich

The demise of Camembert

Crow menace in Tokyo

End of the peacock throne

Astride the meridian

The plan for Cyprus

They called me

Shame

When I returned

Light fingers

After long silence

Hermaphrodite Endormi

Warm canto

Essential tremor

Granite City

Safe passage

Apparition of the Virgin

Monuments

The watchman

The incentive of the maggot

One firefly

"Ritorna-me"

From the city of refuge

What was normal

Tristia at neap tide

Turbulent ferry, evening.

Notes:

"A Mariner original."

ISBN:

0618543589

9780618543588

OCLC:

57319710

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