From the book of giants / Joshua Weiner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weiner, Joshua.

Series:

Phoenix poets.

Phoenix poets

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (87 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Song for Thom Gunn There is no east or west in the wood you fear and seek, stumbling past a gate of moss and what you would not take. And what you thought you had (the Here that is no rest) you make from it an aid to form no east, no west. No east. No west. No need for given map or bell, vehicle, screen, or speed. Forget the house, forget the hill. Taking its title from a set of writings found in the Dead Sea Scrolls, From the Book of Giants retunes the signal broadcast from these ancient fragments, transmitting a new sound in the shape of a Roman drain cover, in imitations of Dante and Martial, in the voice of a cricket and the hard-boiled American photographer Weegee, in elegies both public and personal, and in poems that range from the social speech of letters to the gnomic language of riddles. Out of poetry's "complex of complaint and praise," Joshua Weiner discovers, in one poem, his own complicity in Empire during his son's baseball game at the White House. In another, an embroidered parrot sings a hermetic nursery rhyme to an infant after 9/11.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

I

II

III

Notes

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 73-74).

ISBN:

9786612585098

9781282585096

1282585096

9780226890517

0226890511

OCLC:

638859555