World tree / David Wojahn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wojahn, David, 1953- author.

Series:

Pitt poetry series.

Pitt poetry series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry, Modern--21st century.

Poetry, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (145 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2011]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

World Tree is in many respects, David Wojahn's most ambitious collection to date; especially notable is a 25-poem sequence of ekphrastic poems, "Ochre, " which is accompanied by a haunting series of drawings and photographs of Neolithic Art and anonymous turn of the last century snapshots.Wojahn continues to explore the themes and approaches which he is known for, among them the junctures between the personal and political, a giddy mixing of high and pop culture references, and a deep emotional engagement with whatever material he is writing about.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

I.

Scribal: My Mother in the Voting Booth

August, 1953

Screensaver: Pharaoh

Ending with a Quotation from Walden

Nazim

Christ at Emmaus

For the Honorable Wayne LaPierre, President, National Rifle Association

Self-Portrait Photo of Rimbaud with Folded Arms: Abyssinia, 1883

Rolltop

Napping on My Fifty-Third Birthday

Quicken

Fetish Value

For Tomas Tranströmer

II.

Another Epistle to Frank O'Hara

Self-Portrait as Sock Puppet

Ode to Black 6

Mixtape to Be Brought to Her in Rehab

Jimmie Rodgers's Last Blue Yodel, 1933

For Willy DeVille

The Apotheosis of Charlie Feathers

World Tree

III.

Ochre

IV.

Mudlark Shuffle

Freshwater Bay

Letter to Eadweard Muybridge

In the Domed Stadium

Nocturne: Newark Airport

A Decorated Ghost Dance Shirt

Visiting Dugan

Web Prayer for Milosz

Warren Zevon, Johnny Cash

Block Letters

Sepulchre

Talismanic

Notes

Acknowledgments.

Notes:

Poems.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822978299

0822978296

OCLC:

809317803