Massacre Of the Innocents.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ramke, Bin

Series:

Iowa poetry prize

The Iowa poetry prize Massacre of the innocents

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--20th century.

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 1995.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Massacre of the Innocents is the work of a secular poet who admires the basic texts - the angry qualities of fairytales equally along with the humorous virtues of sacred scriptures. Speaking with the voice of mature accomplishment, Ramke's poems do not struggle for their words but release them from a near-inexhaustible source. As Ramke has said, "Poems are like children and have minds and manners of their own, luckily beyond the control of parents and poets." These poems talk back and they talk to each other. By stripping away the distractions of received meaning from the words he uses, Ramke makes the necessary connection between reader and poem that can freshen meaning - make it new - as is often claimed for poetry but seldom achieved so well as in his work.

Contents:

The Man without a Body

As If the Past

Practical Linguistics

Tricks

Thin Soup

More's the Pity

Matters of Time

Never to Heaven Go

The New Geometry and the Little Blue Heron

Swellings of Style, Parts of Speech

"The Uses of Enchantment"

Bruno Bettelheim

Like Ulysses

War Crimes

Elegy as Algorithm: Seasonal Lamentation

Genius Engine

The Future as If

When Culture Was Popular

Art. Love. Geology

The Little Flowers

Melting Pot

Further Documentation

The Consolations of Grammar

The Center for Atmospheric Research

Summer as a Verb, Nantucket as an Island

An Algebra of Innocence

He Dreams of a Cruise

In Layman's Terms

A Tree Full of Fish.

Notes:

Preliminaries omitted.

ISBN:

1-58729-199-1