The Nerve Of It : Poems New and Selected / Lynn Emanuel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Emanuel, Lynn, 1949- author.

Series:

Pitt poetry series.

Pitt poetry series

Language:

English

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (120 p.)

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, PA : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Emanuel's version of a "new and selected poems" turns convention on its head. She ignores chronology, placing new poems beside old, mixing middle and early poems with recent work, and liberating all her poems from the restraints of their particular histories, both aesthetic and autobiographical. Whether writing in the comedic drag of the cartoon strip, or investigating the Mobius strip relationship between reader and writer, or exposing the humor and hurt that accompany visitations from Frank O'Hara and Gertrude Stein, The Nerve of It both stings and pleases with its intelligence, wit and vivacity. It breaks through, in ways that are bold, sexy, haunting and wry, the die-hard opposition of new and old, personal narrative and linguistic play, sincerity and irony, misery and hilarity. Open the book. Something new is happening here.

Contents:

Contents; Note To the Reader; I.; Out of Metropolis; Stone Soup; The Planet Krypton; The Sleeping; Of Your Father's Indiscretions and the Train to California; Lunch Break with Ted Berrigan and Neighbor's House on Fire; Drawing Rosie's Train Trip; Seizure; Frying Trout While Drunk; "Into the clearing of . . ."; She Is Six; When Father Decided He Did Not Love Her Anymore; Outside Room Six; Self-Portrait as Items in a Snowy Lithograph; Ordinary Objects; Big Black Car; II.; The Garden; The Technology of Love; Heartsick; Blonde Bombshell; The White Dress; Self-Portrait at Eighteen

Portrait of the AuthorThe Politics of Narrative: Why I Am a Poet; III.; Self-Portrait; Dressing the Parts; Starlet in Satin Dressing Gown; Homage to Sharon Stone; On Waking after Dreaming of Raoul; Inspiration; Spite-Homage to Sylvia Plath; Walt, I Salute You!; The Occupation; "Hello, Mallarmé,"; In English in a Poem; A Poem Like an Automobile Can Take You Anywhere,; The Past; inside gertrude stein; IV.; My Life; Kiss; Grieving Was; Dying Was; "I tried to flatter myself into extinction, . . ."; "While my mother lies in a hospital bed . . ."; Ars Poetica; Halfway Through the Book I'm Writing

The BurialThese Days,; Talking with Frank O'Hara; Metamorphosis; Stray Dogg; Dogg Howse; Hang Dogg; Who Iz Dogg ?; Dead Dogg; V.; The Angels of the Resurrection; The Dig; The Murder Writer; Dead Girl's Bedroom; Soliloquy of the Depressed Book; "April 18, the 21st Century"; Homage to Dickinson; Like God,; Then, Suddenly-; Acknowledgments

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822981053

082298105X

OCLC:

914355392