Signs & wonders : poems / by Charles Martin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Martin, Charles, 1942- author.

Series:

Johns Hopkins, poetry and fiction.

Johns Hopkins, poetry and fiction

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (92 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Renowned for his translations of Ovid's Metamorphoses and the poems of Catullus, Martin brings the perspective of history to bear on the stuff of contemporary life.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Directions for Assembly

I/ THE LIFE IN LETTERS

The Flower Thief

Souvenir

Some Kind of Happiness

The Sacred Monsters

Words to Utter at Nightfall

Mind in the Trees

Autopsychography

Support

East Side, West Side

1/ Vermeer at the Frick: His Mistress and Maid

2/ John Koch at the New-York Historical Society: The Party

To Himself

Brooklyn in the Seventies

This Organizing Solitude

Theory Victorious

II/ SOME ROMANS

On a Roman Perfume Bottle

Ara Pacis

Ovid to His Book

Three Sonnets from the Romanesco of G.G. Belli

1/ The Good Soldiers

2/ The Spaniard

3/ The Coffee House Philosopher

III/ NEAR JEFFREY'S HOOK

The Twentieth Century in Photographs

Poem for the Millennium

Who Knows What's Best?

Getting Carded

For the End of the Age of Irony

Near Jeffrey's Hook

Foreboding

After 9/11

After Wang Wei

Poison

Acknowledgments.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4214-0106-1

OCLC:

798295748