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Museum of objects burned by the souls in purgatory : poems / Jeffrey Thomson.
Van Pelt Library PS3570.H6466 M87 2022
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thomson, Jeffrey, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Relics--Poetry.
- Relics.
- Religious articles--Poetry.
- Religious articles.
- Genre:
- poetry.
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 97 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Farmington, ME : Alice James Books, [2022]
- Summary:
- "Titled after a small gallery of the same name found in Rome, the poems are devoted to meditations on religious relics and works of art. They explore the narrative power these objects carry-the way we imbue totemic figures with both meaning and story, and the potential they have to define the world. From holy statues, to cherished words, to historical monuments, Thompson seeks to vitalize the inanimate"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: The Foot of Mary Magdalene
- The Fingers of Doubting Thomas
- The Tale of St. Peter and Simon Magus
- Ode to Ella Fitzgerald and the Belvedere Herakles
- St. Bartholomew Flayed
- Honce loucom | nequs violatod | neque exvehito
- Found Egyptian Love Potion Sonnet
- The Tale of the Great Martyr Demetrius, the Myrrh-Gusher
- Han Solo in Carbonite
- Ode to my Sternum
- Two Halves of the Skull of John the Baptist
- Found Sonnet in Lines from Pliny
- The Tale of the Well of Mary
- The Tale of the Grief Stopper
- Cause and Effect
- Sacro Corporale, or the Miracle at Bolsena
- Found Sonnet on the Recipe for the Philosopher's Stone
- The Tale of the Holy Foreskin: Calcata Vecchia, Italy
- Museum of Objects Burned by the Souls in Purgatory
- The Tale of the Uncorrupted Body of St. Sebastian of the Carts
- Found Poem with John Poch's List of Forbidden Words for Poems
- How it Began
- Poem with the Name of a Costa Rican Beach
- Found Poem for the First April of the Pandemic
- Skull of a Young Tightrope Walker Who Died of a Broken Neck, 1934
- Haunted Ode on el Dia de los Muertos
- Hunger Stones
- How It Burned
- MUSA Underwater Sculpture Garden
- Ode to he Grand K
- Ode to the Stone Spheres
- The Tale of the Alphabet
- Infinite Jest
- Two Sheep God
- Galileo's Middle Finger or E pur si muove
- The Heart of St. Laurence O'Toole
- How We Survived
- Memento Mori
- The Well of the Staff
- The Tale of the Titus Crucis
- Found Poem
- How We Survive
- Found Quarantine Ode on Facebook
- Found Poem in a Letter from a Friend in Spain
- The Tale of the New Jerusalem
- How it Burned: Epilogue.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Thomson, Jeffrey. Museum of objects burned by the souls in purgatory
- ISBN:
- 9781948579254
- 1948579251
- OCLC:
- 1267686865
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