Like a sea / Samuel Amadon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Amadon, Samuel.

Series:

Iowa Poetry Prize

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (102 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Drawing equally from Wallace Stevens, Gertrude Stein, John Berryman, and Robert Frost, Samuel Amadon's award-winning Like a Sea is a collection of poems where personality is foregrounded and speech is both bizarre and familiar. Central to this weirdly talky work is "Each H," a sequence of eleven monologues and dialogues wherein an unknown number of speakers examine their collective and singular identities while simultaneously distorting them. From a sequence of pared-down sonnets to a more traditional lyric to a procedural collage inspired by J. D. Salinger, Ezra Pound,

Contents:

Contents; One; Each H (I); Of Deadish New England Towns Sups the Incandescence; Each H (II); North Meadows; Each H (III); Quotes from the Hartford Poems; Each H (IV); Touches the Helicopter; Each H (V); A Discrete or Continuous Sequence of Measurable Events Distributed in Time; The curtains are; Two; Like an Evening; Three; Each H (VI); Pass-Pass, or All My Pulses; Archipelago This, Archipelago That; A Uselessness of Amadons; Each H (VII); Uncomfortable Hand; Mum, Wag; North of Providence; Photography Doesn't Exist; Each H (VIII); Goodnight Lung; The Barber's Fingers Move October; Each H (IX)

Each H (X)Four; Each H (XI); Five; What was drained is flooded and after comes; A mountain is; Fresh Warm; A Clean Shirt; Foghorns; My Hummel Is Self-Propelled Artillery; Nine at Nine; The Greenness of Grass Is a Positive Quality; Cognitive Burr; Notes

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

"Winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize"--Cover (p. 2).

ISBN:

9781587299254

1587299259

OCLC:

663882744