Interstate / Chard deNiord.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

deNiord, Chard, 1952- author.

Series:

Pitt poetry series.

Pitt poetry series

Language:

English

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (92 p.)

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Interstate is a collection of lyrical poems in four sections that concentrate thematically on animals, love and sex, compassion, and loss. A unifying elegiac conceit, even in the more ecstatic and humorous poems, betrays the bittersweet nature of the book's muse. Alternating between free and formal verse, the poems contain a lyrical tension in which their "broken music" evokes metaphysical paradoxes, romantic humor, and the "dark sounds" that effect what Garcia Lorca called "the power everyone feels" in the mystery of duende "but no philosopher can explain."

Contents:

Contents; Part I; I Keep the Windows Open; Little Fucker; In the Grass; Small Black Eye; At the Sap Wells; Halfway Down; Prodigal Time; By the Sweat of My Face; Confession of a Bird Watcher; Anthem; Serpent, Witness, Cinematographer; Grouse; The Geese; The Bat in the Stove; Starlings; Part II; Anchorite in Autumn; The Sweet Invisible Smoke; Dress Poker; Transfiguration; My Heart on Your Ass in the Glass; North of the Range; The Muse Writes Luis Jorge Borges a Letter on His 86th Birthday; My Other Body; The Star of Interstate; Part III; Getting Ruth Up; The Pain; Happy Hour

In the Presence of My EnemyAugustine's Pears; For All the Love and Devotion; Macanudo; At the Putney Co-Op, an Opera; Rescue; Pool; Poem on My 60th Birthday; The Music; Part IV; The Hand, the Bird; Dumuzi Bids Inanna Good-Bye; Smooth Dark Stone; Oh, Besotted, Critical Father; At the Bardo Barber; The Gift; At the River View Café; Dirge; Riddle; Under the Open; World's Wild Fire; Cloud Copy; Under the Sun; The Pages; Enkidu's Dream; Head of the Meadow; The Singer; The Valley; Grouse Call; The Mystical Body; Chains; Notes; Acknowledgments

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822981183

0822981181

OCLC:

917153204