Ya te veo : poems / by P. Scott. Cunningham.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cunningham, P. Scott, 1978- author.

Series:

Miller Williams poetry prize.

Miller Williams poetry series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--21st century.

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Fayetteville : The University of Arkansas Press, 2018.

Summary:

Finalist, 2018 Miller Williams Poetry Prize Ya Te Veo takes as its title the name of a mythical tree that eats people. Like the branches of that tree, the poems in this book seem to capture and nourish themselves on a diverse cast of would-be passers-by, drawing their life-force from the resulting synthesis of characters. Among the seized are poets and painters alongside musicians from Garth Brooks to Wu-Tang Clan to the composer Morton Feldman, whose mysterious personality serves as a backdrop in many poems for meditations on intimacy, ethics, and anxiety. As the phrase "ya te veo" ("I see you") implies, this is a book interested in revealing what we think is hidden, in questioning the gap inside all of us, a gap between what we feel and what we say and do, making space for our many contradictions. Like the works of Feldman, these poems focus and recede, experimenting with form in order to accomplish a state of deep concentration. They impersonate sonnets, ghazals, terza rima, monologues, translations, and freestyles, but inexactly, embracing failed imitation as an opportunity to remix the familiar.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Series Editor's Preface

Acknowledgments

Giles Corey

Planet Earth

Three Plants That Eat People

Soda Can

Against Detroit

Fugue 52

Jack Gilbert

Against Surrealism

Examining a Carpet

Mexico

Now a Word about Twentieth-Century Music

How the New York School Was Formed

Two Epigraphs without a Poem

Poems about Concentration for People Who Can't Concentrate

Orange and Life in General

O, 1987

Dear Goose

Bidart & Lowell

Noir

Who Was Sonia Sekula?

I Drank Some Milk and It Rained

Origin Myth

A Story about a Marriage

O, 1951

Anecdote

Easter Eggs

Projection 2

Qasida of the Pinecone

Florida Man

Wagner & Nietzsche

There Is a Forward Motion in Old Video Games

Leica

Dover Beaches

And from the Chimney Issues the Smoke

January in Buffalo.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781610756327

1610756320

9781610756341

1610756347

OCLC:

1010494540