Aim at the centaur stealing your wife / Jennifer Nelson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nelson, Jennifer, author.

Contributor:

Ugly Duckling Presse, publisher.

McNaughton & Gunn (Firm), printer.

Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--21st century.

American poetry.

Genre:

American poetry.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

83 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm

Edition:

First edition, first printing.

Distribution:

[Berkeley, California] : Distributed to the trade by Small Press Distribution.

Manufacture:

Saline, MI : Printed and bound by McNaughton & Gunn.

Place of Publication:

Brooklyn, New York : Ugly Duckling Presse, 2015.

Biography/History:

"Jennifer Nelson is a postdoctoral fellow at the Michigan Society of Fellows and assistant professor in the Department of the History of Art at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She formerly edited poetry at Epiphany and Washington Square Review. She holds degrees from Yale University, New York University, the Courtauld Institute, and Harvard College. Aim at the Centaur Stealing Your Wife is her first full-length book of poems"--Publisher's website (viewed November 17, 2015).

Summary:

"In the United States and Europe in the early twenty-first century, a person of mixed ethnicity finds herself questing inside old European art and ideas. Terrible as these things often are, she enjoys recalibrating them, and she is optimistic"--Publisher's website (viewed November 17, 2015).

Contents:

Niccolo Paganini's Variations on a theme from Rossini's Moses in Egypt : Stop

Blue and gold

Don't believe in suffering

The future. Vergil the enchanter

The Mantegna oculus rift ; The Capricci and Scherzi di Fantasia of Giovanni Battista Tiepolo : The etchers' meridian

Death's feet

For the childlike empress

Tiepolo as Punchinello

The owl and the cloud

The shrine of the later Sibyl

The birth of Fantasia ; Angela Gheorghiu's Casta diva as heard in the films of Wong Kar Wai : Representations of water

Love grants me a secular eucharist

Terror Cratylus Nelson

I am (not) a scholar

When I finished writing this the pigeons were gone

Lovers don't read Kafka

Occupy Wall Street

The mad expanse ; White wedding sonnets : It's a nice day to start again

Hey little sister what have you done

It's a nice day to start again

Look for something left in this world ; The beauty mark is infinitely deep ; Max Weber's The Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism (tr. Talcott Parsons) : No knowing

Melencolia II

The moss of the Danube school

The desperate Earth.

Notes:

Poems.

"Design by Last Nights Sandwiches. Typeset in Baskerville and Devanagari Sangam MN ... Covers printed letterpress at UDP on paper from Mohawk Paper Company, Cohoes, NY. Interior images are from Antonio del Pollaiuolo's Hercules and Deianira (ca. 1475-80), which appears courtesy of Yale University Art Gallery"--Colophon.

Local Notes:

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

Contains:

Illustrations taken from: Pollaiolo, Antonio, 1426?-1498. Hercules and Deianira.

ISBN:

9781937027513

1937027511

OCLC:

930046893

Publisher Number:

99975105645