Loose cannons : selected prose / Christopher Middleton ; foreword by August Kleinzahler ; cover art courtesy of Philip Trussell ; book design by Lila Sanchez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Middleton, Christopher, 1926-2015, author.

Kleinzahler, August, author of introduction, etc.

Contributor:

Trussell, Philip, cover designer.

Sanchez, Lila, book designer.

Series:

Recencies.

Recencies Series : Research and Recovery in Twentieth-Century American Poetics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English essays.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (150 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albuquerque, New Mexico : University of New Mexico Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Like his poetry, Middleton's prose pieces are alive with incongruity, collage, and surprising juxtapositions.

Contents:

Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Foreword by August Kleinzahler; Prologue by Christopher Middleton; 1; Curbaram; The Birth of the Smile; From the Alexandria Library Gazette; Manuscript in a Lead Casket; A Bachelor; Ignorance; A Memorial to the Room-Collectors; Nine Biplanes; 2; Or Else; Louise Moillon's Apricots (1635); From Serpentine; Ingestion; This Is Lavender; The Green Heron; Commodus; Fruit Bringers; Bivouac; The Image; 3; From Earth Myriad Robed; The Turkish Rooftops; The Execution of Maximilian; Balzac's Face; Cliff's Dwarf; Le Déjeuner; In the Mirror of the Eighth King

4Coriolan; Parthenogenesis in Charcoal; A Polka in the Evening of Time; The Gaze of the Turkish Mona Lisa; A Postscript to the Great Poem of Time; From Depictions of Blaff; The Pines of Rome; The Sycorax Syndrome; The Weathervane Oiler; Thoreau's Arrow; Sources and Notes; Back Cover

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780826355201

082635520X

OCLC:

886116374