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The banjo clock / Karen Garthe.
De Gruyter University of California Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Garthe, Karen, 1949-
- Series:
- New California poetry ; 34.
- New California poetry ; 34
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry.
- Garthe, Karen, 1949---Poetry.
- Garthe, Karen.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (97 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- For Karen Garthe, poetry is a Molotov cocktail. A master of radical invention, Garthe combines brio of conception with linguistic virtuosity, bringing language to new life from the inside at breakneck speed. The Banjo Clock, her second collection, cultivates a luxuriant sensibility even as it interrupts poetic continuity with cuts, ironies, sharp wit, and wild recklessness. In poems that consider poetry itself, Garthe writes about preparing the medium, the ink, "the motion of new utility." She then turns to America's psychic maladies and the need to rehabilitate our democracy, now floundering in the glare of TV's blue depressive light.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Fanta grape
- Rid the kitchen
- Ikebana
- Gorge
- Ink Runs
- REHAB (we want grace walls)
- National sky
- Buckle up, Sweetie
- Piranesi under The Keystone of A
- Eternal Youth
- PARTITA Flat-out Mars
- To Dolls Big as Clara
- Bear
- Dolly Loves the Ocean
- Little Soulyard, 1
- Island of the Judge who kept us
- State Fair
- First surge Cable
- My Liebestod
- Frail of a year
- Midwest
- Soldiering PARTITA
- Little Soulyard, 2
- Sadly, I noticed
- Andrew, all bespoke
- The Porticos of Toulouse
- Porn Guy Idée Fixe
- Champagne Blondes / Little Scrap of Irony
- The Challenge
- 59th Street Station
- Sweet Thing Theology
- To the Cinematographer
- High Nouns Shepherd
- Speak Revenue
- Mantra
- Solace Ritual
- The Dark Dauphine
- A Letter from Home To Karen Dalton
- Call Sleeping
- The Chiffon Artist
- Beauty
- Mandarin Character, YELLO CROWN
- Water Quip
- Poem on Velvet & Fire's Extra Fun
- Djinns in orbit
- 14 lines
- 2 hands writing
- Blue Hour
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 9780520951693
- 0520951697
- OCLC:
- 785397110
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