Ornaments / David Daniel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Daniel, David, 1960- author.

Series:

Pitt poetry series

Pitt Poetry Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--21st century.

American poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

viii, 55 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2017]

Summary:

"A reverent jag of irreverence, tilting forward to arresting moments of beauty, astonishment, confusion, and grief, the poems in David Daniel's Ornaments find their myths in history and pop culture; they take their truths, but just as much their doubts, from the fallibility of what we remember and the desperation with which we struggle to assemble it. Surreal, lyrical, madcap, they bring a faith, above all, in poetry. Which means in people and their bewildered hearts." --Publisher's website (http://upress.pitt.edu/BookDetails.aspx?bookId=36738).

Contents:

Part I: Glass

All you're losing

The naturalist

The Earth

Crash

The mouse's nest

Rock and roll

Part II: The sonnet

Where we feel it the most

Jet pack

Banks and breaks

The order

Bodies of water

Juan Rulfo

Fear of glass

Part II: Whatever it is

Some things are true

If we but cease its beauty to display

The striker in Concord, Massachusetts

As best we can

Walt Whitman at Stones River Battlefield: a photograph

Stones River canticle

Stones River's robins in the aftermath of war

Limestone and rain

Part IV: Ornaments.

Notes:

Poems.

ISBN:

0822965186

9780822965183

OCLC:

989038368