Ghost variations : poems / Elton Glaser.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Glaser, Elton, author.

Series:

Pitt Poetry Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (101 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2023]

Summary:

Elton Glaser's ninth book of poems is haunted by the loss of his wife, each April bringing back the memory of her death. The opening line confesses the struggle to find a language for this grief: "I'm learning to speak in the accents of adieu." As the book progresses through the seasons, it evokes the places that remind him of their times together, in the South of their youths, in the Midwest of their long marriage, and in their travels here and abroad. And yet there is also another strain that keeps breaking through, the particulars of joy in family and the natural world, grandsons and "swaggering lilies, " and a swan like "a sullen bride in her white finery." With an irrepressible wit and a music that enlivens his lines in both celebration and elegy, Glaser never forgets that, as Wallace Stevens said, "Memory without passion would be better lost."

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Wounded Elocution

Crepuscule

Couplets from Late March

First Anniversary

Cheap Weekend in Another Country

Apparitions in April

Souvenirs

Song of the South

Brink of Spring

Entrance

Reversing the Flow

Origin Myth

Tutorial

Hooftaps

The Fifties from the Back Row

The Great Depression

Sepia Mississippi

Essence and Shadow

Death Wish

My Own Personal Jesus

Missing in the Sunburnt Season

Press the Button to Hear the Word

Succession

At Santa Maria in Cosmedin

Coming or Going

Entropy

At Hadrian's Villa

For My Newborn Grandson

On an Album of Italian Photographs

Mercury in the Tall Degrees

Florence in Flames

Blessing and Hex

Flaws and August at the Lake

Vanishings

Perpetual Afternoon on the Patio

En Plein Air

Rented Days in the Poconos

Hazards and Grace

Ye Are of More Value than Many Sparrows

Blade

Dahlias in Akron

Getting There

Ashes and Debris

Thanksgiving Plus One

Little Chisel

In the Bleak Midwinter

Blue Christmas

Decembering

Hibernal

Deep Sleep in Venice

Open Road Blues

Rhetoric of Weather

Northern Discomforts

Poet in Contention with Himself

Spring Wind

Bride of the Adriatic

Watching the Sun Go Down with Jack Daniel's

Jumble of Photographs in a Paper Bag

Memento

Tenth Anniversary

Warming Up the Leftovers

Circuits Open and Closed

Ghost Variations

Acknowledgments

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Glaser, Elton Ghost Variations

ISBN:

9780822990253

0822990253

OCLC:

1396061842