Often, common, some, and free : poems / Samuel Amadon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Amadon, Samuel, author.

Contributor:

Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

86 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : Omnidawn Publishing, 2021.

Summary:

"Often, Common, Some, And Free is a book about transformation. Moving across varied formal and aesthetic terrain, these poems take on the subject of literal change: constructing and tearing down physical buildings, roaming between cities, and drawing together an image of a world in flux. The speaker is in movement: walking, flying, swimming, taking the train, while also constantly twisting in his sentences, turning into different versions of himself, and braiding his voice with others. These poems are interested in subjects that encompass creation and loss from Robert Moses to the Gardner Museum robbery, but they aim ultimately to resist destruction, to be in the particular, and to hold still their world and their ever-shifting speaker"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: ONE

Poem For the Opening Of the Hamilton Fish Park Pool, 1936

A Partial View Of the Triborough

Poem That Wants To Be Called the West Side Highway

The Brooklyn-Battery Bridge In the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel

Visionary Labors Of the Astoria Pool

Advanced Fantasies Of the Cross-Bronx Expressway

Sunset Pool

At McCarren Pool

Poem That's Never Been To Jones Beach

TWO

Descend, Descend

THREE

Tourism

Figure 5

To Move the Crowd

Some Measure Of Our Aftermath

Touring Fill

Fenway Court

FOUR

The Pennsylvania Station Sequence

FIVE

At the Breakwater

Poem With All the Time In the World

Often, Common, Some, And Free

Tinnitus Asks a Question

Black Helicopters

Oh Stereo

Poem In Which My Love Will Not Let You Down.

Local Notes:

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

ISBN:

9781632430946

1632430940

OCLC:

1243349745

Publisher Number:

99989397027