Spirit Cabinet.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wojahn, David

Series:

Pitt poetry series.

Pitt Poetry Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--20th century.

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Spirit Cabinet is an ambitious work, seamlessly mixing autobiography with subjects ranging from pop music to ancient Egypt, from Stalin's reading habits to Shackleton's ill-fated Antarctic expedition. Formally inventive, elegiac and redemptive, aesthetically and emotionally risky, this is Wojahn's most ingenious and compelling collection.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

I

To Hermes Are Attributed Three Inventions: Music,Writing, Fire

Cartouche

To the Memory of Paul Celan

Symposium

Zola the Hobbyist: 1895

And the Unclean Spirits Went Out of the Man, and Entered into Swine

Testings, 1956

Pavlov's Century

Stalin's Library Card

Tribulation Eclogue

The Art of Poetry

II

Poison, 1959

The Ravenswood

Word Horde against the Gnostics

After Propertius

"Asend the Stare: On Top Floor Please Ring Bell"

Firstborn of Egypt

Days of 1994

For the Centenary of Hart Crane

Dirge with Proofs

Spirit Cabinet

III

Crayola

IV

Can't You Spare Me Over?

Written on the Due Date of a Son Never Born

Prayer to George Oppen

For Townes Van Zandt, 1946-1997

A Pressure That Makes a Shape as You Go on Describing

Arion

Alchemy, Mother Ship, Mile One One Seven

Inscribed on Handmade Paper on the Due Date of a Daughter Never Born

Choiron

Red Ochre

Recovery Room: Seven Hells

Triclinium: Couple Bending to a Burning Photo

Kill Born,Weed Smoke, Chk Mark, Onchola Senn

Notes

Acknowledgments.

Notes:

Preliminaries omitted.

ISBN:

9780822979463

0822979462

OCLC:

606744176