Iconoscope : new and selected poems / Peter Oresick ; edited by Judith Vollmer ; introduction by Lawrence Joseph.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Oresick, Peter, author.

Series:

Pitt poetry series

Pitt poetry series.

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xiv, 130 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2015]

Contents:

Under the Carpathians

I

Reverse Painting on Glass (Kandinsky) 5

The Inspector 6

Lviv, or Lwów 7

Ruthenia 8

The Meeting 10

A Message about Numbers 11

Morning, Allegheny River 13

The Interview 14

How Dickens Happens 16

Pastoral 17

When Icons Weep 18

II

That Summer 21

Angelism 22

Therapy 23

My Father with Pulp Fiction, 1935 24

My Father Who Art in Heaven 25

Franklin 27

I Can't Hear 28

Autumn Evening at the Window with Brushes 30

She Whispers 31

III

To a Museum Guard at Shift Change 35

Origins of the Ruthenian 36

At the Crypt of the Church of Our Lady of the Veil 37

When in 2009 the G20 Summit Convened in Pittsburgh 39

What the Hermit Zosimus Said 41

Sister Rosaire Kopczenski Enters the Religious Life 42

The Old Anarchy 43

IV

Paper Plates 47

I Hiked the Carpathians 48

Fired//On My 49th Birthday 49

Mary, Mary 50

My Mother's Pirohi 52

This the Very Coinage of My Brain 54

I Love to Sleep Curled 56

The Ruthenian Lamb 57

From Warhol-O-Rama (2008)

Andy Warhol for Gods Who Must Be Crazy 61

Andy Warhol for Short Attention Spans 62

Andy Warhol for Catholics 63

Andy Warhol for the FBI 64

Googlism for Andy Warhol 66

Andy Warhol for the Taj Warhol 70

Andy Warhol for the Widow of Andy Warhol 72

Andy Warhol for Undergraduates 73

Andy Warhol for the Village Voice Classifieds, 1966 75

Andy Warhol for Familiar Quotations 76

Warhol, Andy for Indexers 77

From Definitions (1990)

The Story of Glass 81

One of Many Bars in Ford City, Pennsylvania 83

My Father 84

Family Portrait, 1933 85

Landscape with Unemployed, 1934 86

The Annual PPG Pensioners' Picnic 89

After the Deindustrialization of America, My Father Enters Television Repair 90

The Social Impact of Corporate Disinvestment 93

Toward the Heaven of Full Employment 95

Now 96

Tolstoy in Heaven 97

Agnes McGurrin 98

The Jeweler 100

At a Jewish Cemetery in Pittsburgh 101

Pleasure 102

About My Son and Hands 103

Poem for Hamid 104

After the Movement 107

Extreme Unction 108

Old Shevchenko 109

An American Peace 110.

ISBN:

9780822963806

0822963809

OCLC:

910334454