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City Of Salt.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Orr, Gregory
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, 1995.
Summary:
City of Salt, Gregory Orr's sixth book of poems, is largely autobiographical and presents moments of intense emotion which are anchored in clearly dramatized events. These are poems of elegy and celebration, and of occasions where the two modes fuse in acts of redemptive imagination.
Contents:
Origin of the marble forest
A litany
A moment
Haiti, 1961
House of childhood
Everything
The citadel
In the house of orphans
A dark night
Elegy
Who'd want to be a man
The door
The vase
Night journey
The motorcycle
A la mysterieuse
Muse of midnight
Tristan and Iseult
The hinge
The fire hydrant
The cliff
The gray fox
Self-portrait at twenty
Looking back
Lament.
After Piero Cosima's Venus and sleeping Mars
Betrayals/Hades, Eurydice, Orpheus
Investigation
The change
Penelope/the white door
In the art museum
Suspicions
Annunciation
Glukupikron
Aubade
Scarlet t-shirt: the lyric muse
Full moon
The gift
Father's song
The search
Cartoons
I found a bird
Clear night
The path
My father's voice
The cherry orchards
Under pressure
Three small songs
The city of salt.
Notes:
Preliminaries and editorial matter omitted.
ISBN:
9780822979920
0822979926
OCLC:
604223260

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