In Darwin's room / Debora Greger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Greger, Debora, 1949- author.

Series:

Penguin poets

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Physical Description:

xii, 107 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Penguin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2017]

Summary:

"In her tenth volume of poetry, Debora Greger looks outward from the broadmindedness of the interior. Whether she finds herself in Venice, in London, or young again in the sagebrush desert of her childhood, the reader may feel Greger is both there and not there--her landscapes are haunted by memory, even in the act of experience. Not shying from the raw or savage in life, not ignoring the small moments of salvation or grace, she finds in every room an entrance to another world. Darwin's college quarters prove not far from his cabin on the Beagle. A dress shop in Virginia reveals itself a Federal parlor through which a battle of the Civil War was fought. Returning to old scenes with a new eye, Greger proves herself a poet of quiet cunning, of grand scenes and small awakenings"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

I

In the Museum of Recent Time 3

The Last Dodo of Iowa 4

On First Looking into Darwin's Microscope 6

Expression of Emotion in Man and Insects 7

In Darwin's Room 8

To a Mockingbird by the Rappahannock 9

On First Looking into Chapman's Flora 11

Keats to a Young Poet of the Seventies 13

From The Britanniad 14

Flora Americana 16

II

Elegy on the Far Bank 21

Windy Ode 26

Elegy for an English Teacher 27

The War After the War 28

Surplus Poem 32

My First Museum 34

May Altar Constructed from Memory 35

My Brief Reign 37

Prelude and Fugue for Desert Winds 38

The Later Martyrs 40

To Myself, Then 42

Double Self-Portrait, Pinned Together 43

The Family Silence 45

III

Eurydice in Florida 49

The Scholar's Rock 51

The Monet Returns from Its Travels 52

Against Florida 54

To a Glass Lizard 56

By a Pond on a Muggy Evening 58

Complaint of the Moon in the Provinces 59

Today's Meditation: The Sadness of the Subtropics 61

Stopping by the Woods During Bowhunting Season 62

Musica Mundana 64

A Classroom in Hell 66

To a Redbud 68

Elegy for a Carpenter's Carpenter 70

IV

The Way Water Does 75

Outside of Paradise 76

Complaint of the Rain in English 83

Theory of the Leisure Class 85

Nocturne for Amphibian Voice 86

To an Oriental Poppy in an Easterly Breeze 87

To the One Who Wore the World's Oldest Shirt 89

The Ark in the Window 91

England in the Dark Ages 92

Address of the Rat upon the Winter Solstice 94

A Walk Through the Ice Age 96

Raw Ode 98

On Being Fiftysomething 100

Romeo, the Morning After 102

To a Book in a Window 103.

Other Format:

Online version: Greger, Debora, 1949- In Darwin's room.

ISBN:

9780143131311

0143131311

OCLC:

962895609