What passes here for mountains / Matt Morton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morton, Matt, 1987- author.

Contributor:

Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

Series:

Cox family poetry chapbook series

The Cox family poetry chapbook series

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

28 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh : Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2022.

Summary:

"Matt Morton's What Passes Here for Mountains presents a mind caught in the grips of spiritual crisis. These poems take the reader on a journey across locales ranging from the West Texas desert to the bustling streets of Rome, from the social realm of festivity and ritual to the privacy of the imagination. Along the way, the search for meaning and stability within a world in constant flux is enlivened by a surrealist vitality. Cézanne and Shakespeare's Caliban commingle with indie rock musicians and Humpty Dumpty. A mystical encounter with an Edward Hopper painting meets the mundanity of waking again to one's morning routine. Poems of wry self-deprecation are juxtaposed with quiet meditations on memory, grief, and the relationship between the self and the cosmos"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Westerly

From West Texas

The Middle Years

Rare Snow in Rome

Baggage Claim

The Stacks

Early Sunday Morning

After the Festival

The New Science

Tabula Rasa.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9780887486777

0887486770

OCLC:

1269095212

Publisher Number:

99990440396