Syllabus of Errors : Poems / Troy Jollimore.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jollimore, Troy, author.

Series:

Princeton series of contemporary poets.

Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets ; 107

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

American poetry.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (109 pages)

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

. . . we are fixed to perpetrate the species- I meant perpetuate-as if our duty were coupled with our terror. As if beauty itself were but a syllabus of errors.Troy Jollimore's first collection of poems won the National Book Critics Circle Award, was hailed by the New York Times as "a snappy, entertaining book," and led the San Francisco Chronicle to call him "a new and exciting voice in American poetry." And his critically acclaimed second collection expanded his reputation for poems that often take a playful approach to philosophical issues. While the poems in Syllabus of Errors share recognizable concerns with those of Jollimore's first two books, readers will also find a voice that has grown more urgent, more vulnerable, and more sensitive to both the inevitability of tragedy and the possibility of renewal.Poems such as "Ache and Echo," "The Black-Capped Chickadees of Martha's Vineyard," and "When You Lift the Avocado to Your Mouth" explore loss, regret, and the nature of beauty, while the culminating long poem, "Vertigo," is an elegy for a lost friend as well as a fantasia on death, repetition, and transcendence (not to mention the poet's favorite Hitchcock film). Ingeniously organized into sections that act as reflections on six "ations about birdsong, these poems are themselves an answer to the question the poet asks in "On Birdsong": "What would we say to the cardinal or jay, / given wings that could mimic their velocities?"

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

I. On Birdsong

II. On Beauty

III. On Blindness

IV. When You Lift The Avocado To Your Mouth

V. Vertigo

VI. Concluding Unscientific Postscript

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Pilot project,eBook available to selected US libraries only

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

9780691167688

0691167680

OCLC:

908084035