Late Empire.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wojahn, David

Series:

Pitt poetry series.

Pitt poetry series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--20th century.

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 1994.

Summary:

Late Empire, David Wojahn's most wide-ranging collection of poetry, affirms his status as one of the most compelling and original voices of his generation. In these poems, private history and public history mingle and merge in a way that is by turns deeply personal and elegiac. Centered around tow masterful elegies for the writers parents, the poems also treat an array of subjects familiar to us from news events but rarely examined by contemporary poetry.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

I

Late Empire

Extinctions

Clamor

Hive Keepers

New Orleans, Unearthing

My Father's Pornography

Homage to Ryszard Kapuściński

Videotape of Fighting Swans, Boston Public Gardens

Xerox of a Photograph of Bergen-Belsen

Human Form

II

White Lanterns

III

Wartime Photos of My Father

IV

Photo of My Father in a Snowbound Train

Tomis

Emanations

Elegy for Empire

A Print of the Expulsion

To the Reader

Sorting the Personal Effects

The First Six Seals

Tribute and Ash

Workmen Photographed Inside the Reactor

Notes.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (page 77).

Preliminaries omitted.

ISBN:

9780822979456

0822979454

OCLC:

892430289