Antiquity : poems / by Michael Homolka.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Homolka, Michael, author.

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--21st century.

American poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

x, 62 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Louisville, KY : Sarabande Books, [2016]

Summary:

As Faulkner said, and Michael Homolka would agree, "The past is never dead. It's not even past." In Antiquity the poet has found language to enact the mutability of time. The ideals and sensibilities of ancient Greece meet the persistence of war and human atrocities in a modern landscape, where a warning voiced from out of the Holocaust gains renewed, eerie immediacy: "They're really going / to kill us all." These swarming and sensual poems give us the present infused with the past: Martial's wit focused on an ex-lover at the mall; a contemporary family that now, "already burned down / swims instead / with mastodons"; and men on the road who have seen "Achilles in flip-flops." In a zone free of solipsistic irony and empty surrealist gestures, Homolka's poems stand apart from those of his peers. Antiquity startles and wounds; it is a debut collection that feels like the accomplishment of a mature talent. Book jacket.

Contents:

1

Goshen 3

Second Goshen 4

Third Goshen 5

Fourth Goshen 8

Fifth Goshen 10

Sixth Goshen 11

Seventh Goshen 12

Ode on Quote How to live 13

Antiquity 14

Anamnesis 15

Circumstances 16

Retreat 17

2

Out at the Mall 21

Listen Up Medusa 22

Riposte to Ode 23

Personal Narrative 24

Broken Home 25

Endurance 26

Frame 27

Phenomenon 29

Restoration 30

Unjustified Mood on a Monday Evening 31

3

Ruins 35

Modern Sensibility 37

East 38

Villa View Drive 46

West 48

Artifact 49

Transients 51

History Moves in Waves 52

A History of Art 53

Emanation 54

Men on the Road 61.

ISBN:

9781941411278

1941411274

OCLC:

913647451