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Loose cannons : selected prose / Christopher Middleton.
Van Pelt Library PR6025.I25 A6 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Middleton, Christopher, 1926-2015, author.
- Series:
- Recencies
- Recencies series: research and recovery in twentieth-century American poetics
- Standardized Title:
- Works. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 138 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2014.
- Summary:
- These uncategorizable writings by a distinguished poet and translator are lively, erudite, and creative. Like his poetry, Middleton's prose pieces are alive with incongruity, collage, and surprising juxtapositions. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1
- Curbaram 3
- The Birth of the Smile 5
- From the Alexandria Library Gazette 7
- Manuscript in a Lead Casket 12
- A Bachelor 19
- Ignorance 23
- A Memorial to the Room-Collectors 26
- Nine Biplanes 38
- 2
- Or Else 45
- Louise Moillon's Apricots (1635) 49
- From Serpentine
- Ingestion 54
- This Is Lavender 57
- The Green Heron 59
- Commodus 60
- Fruit Bringers 67
- Bivouac 71
- The Image 74
- 3
- From Earth Myriad Robed 77
- The Turkish Rooftops 86
- The Execution of Maximilian 92
- Balzac's Face 94
- Cliff's Dwarf 96
- Le Déjeuner 99
- In the Mirror of the Eighth King 103
- 4
- Coriolan 107
- Parthenogenesis in Charcoal 111
- A Polka in the Evening of Time 113
- The Gaze of the Turkish Mona Lisa 115
- A Postscript to the Great Poem of Time 121
- From Depictions of Blaff
- The Pines of Rome 124
- The Sycorax Syndrome 126
- The Weathervane Oiler 131
- Thoreau's Arrow 134.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9780826355195
- 0826355196
- OCLC:
- 871219508
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