Oblivio gate / Sean Nevin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nevin, Sean, 1969-

Series:

Crab Orchard award series in poetry.

Crab Orchard series in poetry : first book award

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (94 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Carbondale : Crab Orchard Review : Southern Illinois University Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Suffused with lyrical grace and the language of loss, Sean Nevin's Oblivio Gate explores the mental and emotional struggles of Solomon, a veteran battling the onslaught of Alzheimer's disease. Set against Solomon's memories of the Korean War, Nevin's poems draw us into an intimate view of a man's confusion as everything he knows slowly unravels around him, leaving him abandoned in the suddenly unfamiliar landscape of his own mind. Readers experience first- hand Solomon's dismay as he watches himself inexorably slip away from reality, fighting to hold on to the shreds of his identity. Intertwi

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""One. Losing Solomon""; ""Losing Solomon""; ""Hippocampus""; ""Thirty-Nine Years on the Job""; ""Solomon's Tool Shed""; ""Montclair Vespers""; ""Walking Bees""; ""Wildfire Triptych""; ""Fainting at My Grandfather's Funeral""; ""Two. Oblivio Gate""; ""Oblivio Gate""; ""Three. Solomon�s Palimpsest""; ""Solomon's Palimpsest""; ""Four. Wisdom""; ""Wisdom""; ""The Gnome and I Catch Dawn""; ""The Carpenter Bee""; ""Self-Portrait as Tithonus""; ""Self-Portrait as Aurora""; ""The Incident""; ""Sundowning""

""Again, the Gnome and I Catch Dawn""""Alzheimer's""; ""Heart of the Tyrant King""; ""The Other Dream in Which He Is Weightless""; ""Hinged Double Sonnet for the Luna Moths""; ""Working and Singing""; ""Elegy""; ""September, North Fullerton Avenue""; ""Five. Self-Portraits from the Widow House""; ""Self-Portraits from the Widow House""; ""Notes""; ""Other Books in the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry""; ""Back Cover""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8093-8718-2

OCLC:

856870391