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The calligraphy shop / Ben Downing.
LIBRA PS3604.O945 C35 2003 copy 2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Downing, Ben, 1967-
- Language:
- English
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- ix, 46 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln, Neb. : Zoo Press, [2003]
- Summary:
- In his debut collection Ben Downing reimagines the possibilities of American poetry in terms of history, structure, rhythm, and rhyme. The poems in The Calligraphy Shop are highly formal but well shaped, elegantly poised yet picky in their choice of words, subjects, iambs, and trochees. Extremely erudite and often hilarious, sometimes bawdily so, this is an utterly original collection by a brilliant young poet. The English Are So Very Nice!
- Contents:
- No Rosetta Stone
- Tempocide
- On First Looking into Bate's Life of Johnson
- Saudades
- Inshallah
- One Green Stone
- Little Palinode
- Pangur Blah
- The Mixer
- Prothalamion
- Two Husbands
- Fontanelle
- Pieces of Pangaea
- Aeolian Kazoo
- Bicoastal
- An Amateur Barbarian
- The Beauty of Coincidence
- The Civil Wars
- Hiroshima Without Adjectives
- Manhattan Piscatory
- Onomathesia
- The English Are So Nice!
- Black Book
- Sortes Virgilianae
- The Sideways Medusa
- The Aged Phoenix
- The New Parnassians
- From the Republic of Women
- Fermat's Last Theorem
- Scruples
- The Calligraphy Shop.
- ISBN:
- 1932023097
- 9781932023091
- OCLC:
- 52799659
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