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City Of Salt.
- 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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