In the black window : new and selected poems / Michael Van Walleghen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Van Walleghen, Michael, 1938-2022.

Series:

Illinois Poetry Series

Illinois poetry series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry.

American literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (205 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The title of Michael Van Walleghen's new collection evokes thematic preoccupations that have shadowed him throughout his long career. Appearing as a phrase in the poems themselves, In the Black Window more generally points to Van Walleghen's enduring interest in the intersection between inner and outer worlds of experience--those liminal moments in other worlds where we become aware of ourselves. We live at once in a strictly personal, material dimension but also in a distinctly spiritual one. Yet, when looking from a lighted kitchen into a night-black window on a winter evening, we might perhaps become suddenly aware not only of our own reflection, but also of our complicity in some deeper mystery altogether.

Contents:

""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""New Poems (2003)""; ""Fidelity""; ""Taps""; ""The Ex""; ""Coyote""; ""Orchids""; ""Once More with Mother on the Beach""; ""Three-Ring Circus""; ""When . . .""; ""Ego""; ""Coelacanth""; ""The Other Shoe""; ""Light Takes the Tree""; ""The Franz Kafka Fellowship Hotel""; ""The Former Life""; ""Transformer""; ""Fixer-Upper""; ""Persimmon Fjord""; ""The Man in the Diving Suit""; ""Happiness""; ""The Wichita Poems (1975)""; ""The Light""; ""A Good Excuse""; ""The Permanence of Witches""; ""The Alligators""

""Frankenstein's 4:00 a.m. Lament or, The Man Who Lives Downstairs""; ""More Trouble with the Obvious (1981)""; ""More Trouble with the Obvious""; ""Crabapples""; ""The Sibyl at Snug Harbor""; ""The Fisherman""; ""The Honeymoon of the Muse""; ""Walking the Baby to the Liquor Store""; ""Fun at Crystal Lake""; ""Driving into Enid""; ""Arizona Movies""; ""Blue Tango (1989)""; ""The Age of Reason""; ""The Spoiled Child""; ""The Afterlife""; ""Meat""; ""Lake Limbo""; ""Blue Tango""; ""Bowling Alley""; ""Hold It""; ""Hanging On like Death""; ""Fishing with Children""; ""Creative Writing""

""Hamburger Heaven""""Atlantis""; ""Tall Birds Stalking (1994)""; ""Adios Zarathustra""; ""The Awards Banquet""; ""In the Chariot Drawn by Dragons""; ""Crawlspace""; ""Late""; ""Tall Birds Stalking""; ""Uncomfortable Procedures""; ""The Last Neanderthal (1999)""; ""Clarity""; ""The Elephant in Winter""; ""Periscope""; ""Beauty""; ""Twilight of the Neanderthals""; ""Ghost""; ""Shangri-La""; ""In the Company of Manatees""; ""The Last Neanderthal""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786613921628

9781283609173

1283609177

9780252092725

0252092724

OCLC:

815477959