Things that no longer delight me : poems / Leslie Chang.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chang, Leslie C. (Leslie Cecilia), 1971-

Series:

Poets out loud

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry.

American literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (72 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2010.

Summary:

Things That No Longer Delight Me is a collection of poems about family and memory. This book is filled with objects. The author writes: I like objects for company, to decorate the plainest spaces, decorum and I amass details, jade bracelet, her animal-print dresses, an oval coral cameo. How do objects counter loneliness, she asks, and speak to us of how to behave? In Things That No Longer Delight Me, lyric is driven by a compulsion or need to collect, in order to make sense of the past and stay connected to it. And what if that connection were to be lost? Confronting loss, the book pieces together a family history from stories fragmented and overheard. It asks: What is hearsay and what is history? It seeks to embody story, or historical detail, in lyric form. Resisting nostalgia, its poems respect what is diminished by grief or loss yet reveal details that hold sway over us and give us continuing pleasure.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Salt

Errata

Her Amah's Cure for Sties

Aerogramme

Watermelons

Shanghai, 1919

Augury

Vanity

Moon-gazing Chair

Augury Again

The Palmer Method

Four Winds Dying Down

Solitaire

The Entrance Exam

Shanghai, 1919, Redux

Animism

Things That No Longer Delight Me

The Flower Market

Horse Horse Tiger Tiger

Serindia

Montale's

Bright Earth

Fragment (On Longing)

Third Crescent Moon

In the Language of the Here and Now

To Lee Bontecou.

ISBN:

0-8232-4899-2

0-8232-3203-4

0-8232-3201-8

1-4416-4476-8

OCLC:

647886231