Into the ruins : poems / Frederick Glaysher.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Glaysher, Frederick, 1954-

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

x, 71 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Rochester, MI : Earthrise Press, [1999]

Summary:

A serious, critical voice, one grappling with the profound transformations of the East and West, Frederick Glaysher's poems confront what so many postmodern poets study to avoid in the twentieth century. Far from the sentimentality one so often finds in the reflections of many poets on other cultures, Frederick Glaysher evinces a vision that, in the words of W. B. Yeats, casts at times a cold eye on both East and West, while perhaps intimating a common path into a new future. One suspects he has benefited from the universality of his friend and mentor Robert Hayden, with whom he studied writing at the University of Michigan, and has broken his own ground and global territory.

Living for a year and a half in Maebashi, Japan, Glaysher taught at Gunma University, and, for two years in Arizona, on the Colorado River Indian Tribes Reservation, desert site of one of the largest internment camps for Japanese-Americans during World War II.

For over ten years he taught English, American, World, non-Western, and multicultural literature. After growing increasingly disaffected with the prevailing academic literary culture, he resigned from Oakland University and began a successful career in real estate, while continuing to write and reflect on postmodern life.

Writing in 1979 Robert Hayden referred to the author "as a poet now whose work and dedication to a demanding and difficult art I admire; as a man who has the gift of inner grace."

Contents:

I

The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters 3

Midnight Visitors 4

The Pit of Darkness 5

Danse Macabre 6

Locusts 7

Camp II 9

Gulag Wayfarers 10

Oracle Bones 11

Heartland America 12

II

Into the Ruin 15

Old Baltimore 20

Rodin's Gates of Hell 21

Hibakusha Nightmare 24

Advent of the Beast 25

Raskolnikov's Dream 26

To the New City 27

Long Journey Through Night 29

The Crowned Maitreya 30

Carnelian Blemish 32

Leader of the People 33

Vignette 35

Chairman of the Board 36

At a Mass Grave 38

Wild Goose Pagodas 39

III

A Conversation on the Forum 43

Mud-Wrestlers 47

Derrida in Doubt 48

The Looking-Glass 49

IV

Elijah Lovejoy 53

Eleanor Roosevelt 54

Albert Einstein 55

Dag Hammarskjold 56

Homage to Mark Tobey 57

Elegy for Robert Hayden 60

V

To Penelope 63

Intimations 64

Kagi 65

Basic Training 66

A Visit to Aunt Amy's 67

Leaving the Old Country 68

The Dream 69

The Dark Wood 70

Chamber Music 71.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has label "Review Copy..." on front pastedown.

ISBN:

0967042127

9780967042121

OCLC:

42780543