Eternity & oranges / Christopher Bakken.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bakken, Christopher, author.

Series:

Pitt poetry series.

Pitt Poetry Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--21st century.

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (88 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Eternity and oranges

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"We'd not slept in days, or else we were/ still sleeping--who could tell?" someone asks in the opening poem of Eternity & Oranges. The voices we encounter in this book speak on the verge of disappearance, from places marked by disintegration and terror. Christopher Bakken's poems are acts of conjuring. They move from the real political landscapes of Greece, Italy, and Romania, into more surreal spaces where history comes alive and the summoned dead speak. In the formally diverse long poem, "Kouros/Kore," but also in this book's terse and harrowing dream songs, Bakken writes with devastating force, at every turn "Guilty of the crime of praise" while "begging for an antidote to beauty."

Contents:

Intro; Contents; Aubade; Interior with a Closed Notebook; Impressions of a Drowning Man; Thyrsus; Report from the Office of Optical Illusions; Denial; Translation; Resistance; 17.ix.07; Sentence; Some Things along Strada C. A. Rosetti; Confession; Myth; Possession, Macedonia; Appeal; Last Station of No One's Cross; Still Life; Amphitheater; Exterior with Knife and Net; Kouros/Kore; Altar; Elegy; A Poem Not Written by Yannis Ritsos on the Day of My Birth; Squid Fishing; The Skyros Papers; Troppo Mare; Stake; Recessional; Defiance; Interior with a Bowl of Matches; Notes; Acknowledgments

Notes:

Poems.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 24, 2016).

ISBN:

9780822981282

0822981289

OCLC:

944402964