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Medicine show / Tom Yuill.
De Gruyter University of Chicago Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Yuill, Tom.
- Series:
- Phoenix poets.
- Phoenix poets
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (82 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In Medicine Show, inner conflict is wonderfully realized in the clash of down-home plain speech and European high culture utterances. Freely translating and adapting Catullus (Latin), Villon (Middle French), Corbiere (French), Hikmet (Turkish), and Orpheus (Greek), and placing them alongside Jagger and Richards, skinheads, and psalms, Tom Yuill's book mirrors an old-style hawking of wares, with all the charm and absurdity that results when high culture meets pop, when city meets small town, and when provincialism confronts urbanity. Here, the poems talk to one another, one poem nudging the cusps of many others, those poems touching still others' circumferences. Yuill, by invoking the Rolling Stones as muses and as background music, offers cover versions of Shakespeare, Keats, and Dylan Thomas, ultimately giving us a new kind of verse, funneled through the languages and rhythms of his masters' voices.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Coyote
- Bit: An Ode with the Rolling Stones Playing in the Background
- Unsolicited Elegy
- Lovers
- Ode to the Wind
- For Orleans
- Two Easy Odes
- The Blue-Eyed Giant, the Miniature Woman, and the Honeysuckle
- Her Choir
- Dallas Skinheads
- Medicine Show
- The Blue Balloon
- The Toad
- Between 56 and 57
- Grief
- XI
- You Were Not Hanged, and It Was Not Science
- Crying
- 1621-1627
- To Love Thrown Like a Rope
- Dilettantes
- Dinner Party in the South: A Vision
- Damned
- It Happens
- Several Histories
- Embers of an Ode
- Father to Son
- To the Sound of a String as It Snaps
- Debate with His Heart
- Quatrains
- Ah! Birthday!
- Fragment
- Made of Coral
- Ballade
- Veritas
- Notes
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9786612585128
- 9781282585126
- 1282585126
- 9780226971674
- 0226971678
- OCLC:
- 635292404
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