The city, our city / Wayne Miller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miller, Wayne, 1976-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cities and towns--Poetry.

Cities and towns.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (129 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, Minn. : Milkweed Editions, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A series of semi-mythologized, symbolic narratives interspersed with dramatic monologues, the poems collected in The City, Our City showcase the voice of a young poet striking out, dramatically, emphatically, to stake his claim on ""the City."" It is an unnamed, crowded place where the human questions and observations found in almost any city?past, present, and future?ring out with urgency. These poems?in turn elegiac, celebratory, haunting, grave, and joyful?give hum to our modern experience, to those caught up in ""the City""'s immensity, and announce the arrival of a major new

Contents:

Contents; A Prayer (O City-); I; Dear Auden,; The Feast; II; Flooding the Valley; Street Fight; A History of Art; III; A History of War; Identifying the Body; IV; I've Heard that Outside the City; The Death of the Frontier; Winter Pastoral; V; The Assassination Lecture; The Beautiful City (in 32 Strokes); In the Museum: A Pastoral; VI; American Aubade; American Nocturne; VII; The Dead Moor Speaks; Silence in the City; VIII; Poem Slipped betweenTwo Lines by Vallejo; Nothing in the Letters: An Elegy; Report from the Dying District; IX; Those Boys; The Wall; A Treatise on Power (in 32 Strokes)

XIn the Ba rracks: A Found Poem; Bombing the City; XI; [The child's cry is a light that comes on in the house]; After the Fever: A Pastoral; XII; The Rescue; Archeology; XIII; CPR; Our Last Visit; XIV; Notes/Sources; Acknowledgments; Wayne Miller

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9786613262875

9781283262873

1283262878

9781571318305

1571318305

OCLC:

757260969