In search of the great dead [electronic resource] / Richard Cecil.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cecil, Richard, 1944-

Series:

Crab Orchard Series in Poetry

Crab Orchard award series in poetry

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dead--Poetry.

Dead.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (123 p.)

Place of Publication:

Carbondale : Crab Orchard Review : Southern Illinois University Press, c1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

With grim humor and humorous grimness, In Search of the Great Dead engages the great themes of poetry: death and fame. The title poem of this collection records Richard Cecil's quest for the tombs of the famous dead. At first the search leads him on a tour of famous European tombstones-the grave of Chateaubriand in St. Malo, the shared tomb of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas in Pere-Lachaise cemetery in Paris, Yeats's old Celtic cross in Sligo-but gradually it expands into areas where all the tombs have been erased by time or vandalism-the tombs of

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. In Search of the Great Dead; In Search of the Great Dead; La Notte; In Memoriam: for Lynda Hull; On the Observation Platform; The Autobiography of My House; This Train Isn't Bound for Glory; Charlie Chan Solves Another Murder; Ubi Sunt?; 2. Arrivals; Arrivals; Pilgrimage to Haworth; Angel Sighted from Airliner!; Room with View/Radio; Caliban and Ariel; Kearney, Nebraska; SpaceWalk; Jetlag Aubade; Life Is like a Mountain Railway; 3. Slow Poison; The Little Prince; How Fiction Ruined My Life; Why I Have No Children

Front Porch VisitingAdult Education; The Thinkers; Incident at Third andWoodlawn; Slow Poison; 4. Picnic in the Basement; Picnic in the Basement; Do It Yourself; TheWedding of M & R (after Lucan); My Muse; A Portrait of the Artist's Bedroom; Some Terms in Real Estate Defined; Decision at Silver Creek; 5. Living in Obscurity; Living in Obscurity; Authors in Hell; Narcissus Experiences Technical Difficulties; A Saint's Life; Fiftieth Birthday; Portrait of the Artist as a Middle-Aged Man; Life at the Top; Dressing forWork; The Education of a Professor; Thanatopsis; Back Cover

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

0-8093-8511-2

1-299-05072-7

0-585-33396-3

OCLC:

856870261