Erotic Distance : Poems by Barbara Campbell

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Campbell, Barbara.

Series:

T. S. Eliot Prize

T. S. Eliot Prize ; v.2003

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Desire in literature.

Eroticism in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (90 p.)

Other Title:

T. S. Eliot Prize

Erotic Distance

Place of Publication:

Kirksville, MO : Truman State University Press, 2003.

Summary:

Erotic Distance explores our most intimate relationships and private lives in language that is at once painterly, sensual, and exacting. The poems combine the lyric image and formal rigor to negotiate the luminous space between ourselves and our desires.

Contents:

Series Page; Title Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreground; Parable for a Marriage Long Sought; The Tyranny of Three; Quesnay's Aspect; Chicago Ghazal; Language; Lament for a Son; Morning at the Window; Tyranny of Errant Desire; Notes on Form; Tyranny of Erotic Distance; Replicate; Painted Vase; Misread; Middle Ground; Five Odes for Ellen Gunderson; The Writing Room; Australia; Nine Lines Broken into Finer Parts; To the Trees' Irregular Tremor; Tyranny of the Aerial Map; Privacy; Lyric on a Painting by Odd Nerdrum; Blurb; Love Poem in Stricter Measure; Against Animism

The Art LessonEvening at the Window; Abandoned Paradelle; Lines Reclaimed from Faith; Chicago Aubade; Tryanny of Advent; The Builder's Wife; Mimetic; Lines Discarded and Deeply Felt; The Swimming; Epithalmion: How We Drown; Tyranny of the Present Moment; Lines Approximating Light; Chicago Pastoral; Desire; Geneseo; Tyranny; Invective; Ars Poetica; Envoi; Tyranny of the Muse; Notes

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-61248-024-1

OCLC:

607008162