Squaring the circle / Philip Fried.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fried, Philip, 1945- author.

Contributor:

Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

84 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Cliffs of Moher, County Clare, Ireland : Salmon Poetry, 2017.

Summary:

Phillip Fried's Squaring the Circle is humorous and yet also mysterious in its evocation of esoteric physics and theology. The title poem presents a mystic/scientific quest for an impossible geometry as both a vaudevillian historical catastrophe and a way of understanding God. Throughout, Fried uses pastiche and the mashup of texts to explore historical moments and personal history. Behind its many forms and approaches, however, the book conveys the strong sense of a "persona"-the feeling, as Stanley Kuntiz once said, that the poet has imagined a person who could write these poems. Book jacket.

Contents:

Powers of 10

Powers of 10 10

The Game of Skully 11

We Rented 12

Irrational, Imaginary 13

God, the Younger 14

X is the Solution 15

Gadget 16

God, the Elder 17

Squaring the Circle 18

Late in the Game 19

Midrash on Genesis 20

The Full Treatment 21

Cloud of Knowing 22

PTSD 23

Prequel 24

God as Float 26

Arrival 27

God Says ... 28

Fore- and Aftershocks 29

In Triplicate 30

God, the Busker 31

The Quantum Mechanics of Everyday Life

Hallucination 33

The Quantum Mechanics of Everyday Life 34

Event/Horizon 35

SOK, WHAP ... 36

"Knee on concrete, ..." 37

Pilot Episode, October, 1962 38

Happy Hour 39

Hop on, Hop off 40

Entanglement 41

Cutting Edge

"I Dreamt That I Dwelt in Marble Halls" 44

Golden Rule 45

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Paper Clip 46

"We are such stuff ..." 49

"no ideas but in things ..." 50

Recipes.gov 51

Cutting-Edge Agronomy 53

Posterity Posse 54

Drone 56

Take the Memory Quiz 57

Interrogating Stress 58

Emblems 59

"We, therefore ..." 60

Pre-Post-Apocalyptic Jump-Rope 61

What Happened After the End? 62

The World's Big Show

Package Insert 65

Guided Meditation in the People's House 67

MANIAC I 69

Please Listen Carefully 70

Yoga for Leaders and Others 71

Striking a Tone, with Overtones 73

Misdirection 74

Whose Advice Was Crucial in Your Quest for Stardom? 75

Flagony Column: Advice from a Vexillologist 76

Summer's End 78

Wanted 79

Coulrophobia 81

Ballyhoo 83

Hullabaloo 84.

Notes:

Poems.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

ISBN:

9781910669747

1910669741

OCLC:

968179064

Publisher Number:

99973910787