Orphics / Leonard Kress.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kress, Leonard, 1950- author.

Series:

Wick poetry chapbook series ; Number 2.

Wick Poetry Chapbook Series Three ; Number 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry--History and criticism.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (40 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Kent, Ohio ; London, England : The Kent State University Press, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Imagine a postmodern Pindar with a liberal arts education and good command of Polish; think of an Orpheus who starts out as a horny kid from the American suburbs, hits the road like Kerouac, learns a few things along the way, but still looks back-wacked! Kress has come up with some playful and surprisingly haunting sonnets that glance at the old stories but sing their own new, not too sweet songs."-Julia Kasdorf

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Orpheus on and off the Road""; ""Orpheus Hops a Freight""; ""Orpheus Renames the Constellations""; ""Don't Look Back""; ""Practice""; ""Impenetrable Grotto""; ""Orpheus Considers Celibacy""; ""Early Education""; ""Early Education (2)""; ""Orpheus at the Ashland Coal Mine""; ""An Orphic Version of the Pastoral""; ""Orpheus Accompanies a Caucus of the Women's Strike for Peace to the Union Hall""; ""Orpheus on the Five Incomplete Phenomena""; ""Orpheus in Therapy""; ""Orphics""

""After Treny 14 (On the Death of His Daughter, Urszula)""""Orpheus Practices Pindarics""; ""Orpheus Gets an Earful from the Maenads""; ""The Descent""; ""Orpheus to his Polish Translator Jan Kochanowski in 1580""; ""The Singing Oracle of Orpheus""; ""Notes""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781612773513

1612773516

9781612773506

1612773508