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The look of things / Henri Cole.
LIBRA PS3553.O4725 L66 1995 copy 2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cole, Henri.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- viii, 71 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1995.
- Summary:
- The poems in Henri Cole's third book, The Look of Things, voice the tension between the social and the spiritual life, between the desire for company and for solitude, between youth and the ravages of disease, between the American and the exotic. Cole treats these conflicting concerns in tones sometimes satiric, sometimes elegiac, sometimes ruefully self-deprecating, sometimes harrowingly tragic. The vein of playfulness cannot obscure the social and domestic losses attending life, but joy is not forgotten, even when it is black-bordered by epitaph. Though the ghost of formal verse haunts these poems, they allude to it without subservience. And Cole lifts the topics of everyday life into the symbolic order of reflection and structure without ever losing his awareness of their origins in the heart.
- Contents:
- The Pink and the Black
- Sacrament
- The Gondolas
- The Look of Things
- 40 Days and 40 Nights
- The Roman Baths at Nimes
- Carnations
- Torso
- Paper Dolls
- Supper with Roy
- Christmas in Carthage
- Little G Minor Lament
- Plastilina
- Palm Court
- You Come When I Call You
- The Bird Show at Aubagne
- The Minimum Circus
- Aix
- Harvard Classics
- Marius, Son of Sarkis, Named for the Roman Consul, Savior from the Barbarians, Putative Husband of Mary Magdalene
- Land of Lemons
- The Housekeeper and the Handyman
- Three Aurelian Moons
- Palette
- Irradiation
- Eating Figs Under the White Rocks
- Une Lettre a New York
- Crayola
- Swimming with the Dead
- Tarantula
- The Cabbage Butterfly
- Wedding Announcement
- Katrina's Bedroom
- The Christological Year
- The House Guest Looks at Love and Life
- Buddha and the Seven Tiger Cubs
- Apostasy
- Ex-Voto
- Immaculate Mary Breathes the Air We Breathe.
- Notes:
- "This is a Borzoi Book published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc."
- Other Format:
- Online version: Cole, Henri. Look of things.
- ISBN:
- 067943352X
- 9780679433521
- 067976593x
- OCLC:
- 31045106
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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