Photographing Eden : poems / Jason Gray.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gray, Jason, 1976-

Series:

Hollis Summers Poetry Prize

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (73 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Photographing Eden presents the first full-length collection of poems by a major new talent. The work meditates on several ideas, the crux of which is Eden: spirituality, environmentalism, and the relationships between men and women. Observing, often through the lens of a camera, our state in the world, the poems try to focus sharply on what often seems a blur. The poems are always attentive to artistic mediums and the craft behind them because our struggle is to make something perfect in the imperfect world in which we live, while acknowledging the impossibility of that quest. Gray's poems r

Contents:

/; A Field Guide to the Dark; The First Mermaid; Running with My Father; Circus Circus; The Snow Leopard; Chiaroscuro; Adam & Eve Go to the Zoo; Sciomancy; We Have Our Inheritance; Tower of Babel; Aristaeus; The Snow Globe of Drowning Bears; Letter to the Unconverted; The Queen Died of Grief; Polar Bear at the Edge of a Hole in the Ice; Atlantis; Christmas with Kings; Termination Shock; Crossing the Border; //; The Old Balladeer Retires after Too Many Years of Hoping the Woman at Table 12 Would Understand He Was Singing to Her All That Time; The Little Sphinx

My Daughter as the Angel Gabriel in the Tableau Vivant of Van Grap's AnnunciationParadis; Whitewater Rafting; Meditations of the Tomb Painters; Adam Gifts Eve with a Session of Boudoir Photography; Hey, You've Got to Hide Your Love Away; Somewhere in the Mediterranean; A Generic Pietà; Chagall in Heaven; The Enemies of Poise; You Put Your Right Hand In, You Take Your Left Hand Out; Merry Christmas, Titan; Memento Amori; Bear; Adam's Tongue; Stone Goddess; The Nature Trail; Your Art History; The End; Notes

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780821443019

0821443011

OCLC:

884016899