Interrogation Palace : New and Selected Poems: 1982-2004

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, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Interrogation Palace is a career-spanning selection of work from an important American poet, drawing upon each of David Wojahn's six previous collections and a substantial gathering of new work. Moving fluently from personal history to public history, and from high culture to popular culture, Wojahn's searching and restless poetry has been considerably acclaimed, both for the candor of its testimony and the authority of its formal invention. He is above all an elegiac poet, tender and ferocious by turns, whether mourning the loss of family and loved ones or the hopes and aspirations of the baby-boomer era. Interrogation Palace confirms David Wojahn's status as one of the most inventive, passionate, and ambitious figures of his generation.

Contents:

For the poltergeists : new poems

Board book & the costume of a whooping crane

Sawdust

For the poltergeists

Radnóti in a trench coat

Theremin : solo & command performance

Interrogation Palace

Scrabble with Matthews

Dithyramb and lamentation

Homage to Blind Willie Johnson From Icehouse Lights, 1982

Distance

Glaucoma

The precincts of moonlight

Weldon Kees in Mexico, 1965

Cold glow : icehouses

From Glassworks, 1987

"Satin doll"

Pentecost

Dates, for example

From Mystery Train, 1990

From "Mystery train (a sequence)"

Posthumous life

Armageddon : private Gabriel Calvin Wojahn, 1900-18

The resurrection of the dead, Port Glasgow, 1950

From Late Empire, 1994

Late empire

Homage to Ryszard Kapuściński

White lanterns

Photo of my father in a snowbound train

Tomis

The first six seals

From The Falling Hour, 1997

Rajah in Babylon

Excavation photo

After Wittgenstein

The shades

God of journeys and secret tidings

Stammer

Tractate for Doctor Tourette

Ghost supper

Dirge and descent

Oracle

Gallery IX : a carved bone ring of cormorants

Before the words

From Spirit Cabinet, 2002

The art of poetry

Poison, 1959

And the unclean spirits went out of the man, and entered into swine

Stalin's library card

The ravenswood

After Propertius

Days of 1994

Spirit cabinet

From "Crayola : a sequence"

Can't you spare me over?

Written on the due date of a son never born

Triclinium : couple bending to a burning photo

Kill born, weed smoke, chk mark, Onchola Senn.

Notes:

Only New Poems included.

ISBN:

9780822979432

0822979438

OCLC:

891395003