The new world : infinitesimal epics / Anthony Carelli.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carelli, Anthony, 1979- author.

Contributor:

Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Series:

Princeton series of contemporary poets

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

68 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2021]

Summary:

"The New World, Anthony Carelli's new collection of poems, is an American travelogue that unfolds in a series of darkly comic episodes, with allusions to Dante as a thread throughout. In these epics in miniature, we meet a pilgrim-poet as he awaits the arrival of his child, a would-be Columbus, on the shores of a land "disenstoried" by explorers present and past. It's a land and a people largely lost in mindscapes and mythscapes, haunted by sketchy aspirational visions, misbegotten misremembering, and emptiness. Nonetheless, the poet steps out to the shore to sing for the child-and reader-to do what Columbus never did: "land gently. / And listen and / listen and listen / and stay." Constantly unsettling the rhetoric of inherited forms, the poet shaping these poems is always bound to the pilgrim, who cannot pretend to dissolve our purgatories but can only invite us-as a latter-day Virgil would-deeper into the uncanny encounters that encircle us. From an Arizona nursing home and a grandmother's memory of a stolen golden Schwinn in the occupied Philippines, to a tale of road-tripping west through Pennsylvania as sunrise transpires in the wrong sky, The New World opens strange spaces for us to re-see, lament, and re-sing the stories we tell"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: I. Proem

Dante Jokes in Peshtigo

The Buck

Charlie at Full Speed

Octet 9

Where the Green Ants Dream

II. The New World

The New World

Old Trees Wave

A New Word

III. The New Horizons Spacecraft Speeds Past Pluto in What We May Call the Blink of an Eye

Country Canto

White Mountain Song

American Homeric

IV. Revolutionary Word

In Exodus

Osip in August

Fire Watcher

Old Lines.

Local Notes:

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

ISBN:

9780691218809

0691218803

9780691218793

069121879X

OCLC:

1235902804

Publisher Number:

99988778884