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Enola Gay / Mark Levine.
De Gruyter University of California Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Levine, Mark, Author.
- Series:
- New California Poetry ; 2
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (96 p.)
- Edition:
- Reprint 2020
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2020]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- Some devastation has struck the soul and the Earth alike, and in Enola Gay, his second volume of poems, Mark Levine surveys the disaster. Here is a volume of poetry approaching Carolyn Forche's The Angel of History as a stark meditation on Blanchot's sense of writing as the "desired, undesired torment which endures everything." Levine engages the traditional resources of lyric poetry in an exploration of historical and cultural landscapes ravaged by imponderable events. Enola Gay' s "mission" can seem spiritual, imaginative, and militaristic as the speaker in these poems surveys marshes and fields and a land on the edge of disintegration. Levine sifts the psychological residue that accumulates in the wake of unspeakable acts and so negotiates that terrain between the banality of language and the need to stand witness and to speak. Levine's stunning second book, with its grave cultural implications and its surveillance of a distinctly postmodern malaise, offers multiple readings. Here are compact poems with uncanny power, rhythm, and a strange, formal beauty echoing and renewing the legacy of Wallace Stevens for a new era. Some devastation has struck the soul and the Earth alike, and in Enola Gay, his second volume of poems, Mark Levine surveys the disaster. Here is a volume of poetry approaching Carolyn Forche's The Angel of History as a stark meditati
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Then for the Seventh Night
- Eclipse, Eclipse
- Susan Fowler
- Horizon
- Combinations
- Jack and Jill
- Counting the Forests
- Lyric
- Hello
- The Response
- Place
- My Friend
- A Harvest
- Two Springs
- Ocean
- Lullaby
- Event
- Island Life
- Everybody
- Riddles of Flight
- Enola Gay
- The Holy Pail
- John Keats
- Unlike Graham
- Winter Occasional
- How Pleasant to Know Mr. Lear by Edward Lear
- Forgetfulness
- A Focus on the Elemental Oven (Six Moments)
- New Song
- Jean Cocteau
- Moon Mistaken
- Chimney Song
- Light Years
- The Fixed Wing
- Elegy (Terence Freitas)
- Wedding Day
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Okt 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9780520924598
- 0520924592
- OCLC:
- 1202623663
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