In primary light : poems /
John Wood is well known for his brilliant writing on the history of photography, but for many years he has also centered on his work as a poet, publishing in some of the very best magazines and gaining the deep admiration of many writers and poets. This book is testimony of his devotion to his craft...
| Основен автор: | Wood, John, 1947 January 2- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Iowa City, IA :
University of Iowa Press,
℗♭1994.
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| Серия: |
Iowa poetry prize.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=22180 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
In primary light. |
Съдържание:
- The bitter part of heaven
- The perils of beauty
- The comeback of Yma Sumac
- Cancer talkers
- Upon reading in the newspaper that a man in Kentucky had cut off his hand and his foot with pocketknives and then gouged out an eye in order that he might go to heaven
- On a photograph I found of two young factory workers standing beside a piece of heavy machinery and inscribed on the reverse "sacred to the memory of friendship"
- The correct answers
- The canticle of end-times
- The kali yuga
- The wastes of resurrection
- Opie and the apples
- Jam
- How I tried to explain the certainties of faith and Petrunkevitch's famous essay on the wasp and the tarantula to a pentecostal student worried about my soul
- About their father's business
- Expulsions
- Baptisms
- Conversions
- Theological meditation
- Silage
- Shitheads
- Reflections on the progress of the western intellectual tradition from Thales to Crick and Watson
- Hunting for a new chairman; thinking about Giotto.
- Locomotion and starlight
- Dreams of standing
- The myths of meanness
- Bees
- Remembering my father riding
- Elegiac stanza on a photograph of Ethel Rosenberg in her kitchen
- Elegy
- Elegy in September
- Elegiac ode
- Babies on the beach
- Flowers for Robert Mapplethorpe
- The mysteries: elegy at century's close
- For a friend whose son committed suicide
- Thinking of Maria Theresa Broussard, a pregnant girl in my freshman class my first semester in Louisiana
- Seeing a girl who looked like a well-known child actress walking toward san tome, the church in Toledo where el Greco's Burial of the count of orgaz hangs
- Here in Louisiana
- The surrounding grace
- A crown of promise
- In primary light
- Self-portrait after Stanley Spencer.