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- Things That No Longer Delight Me
- Book
- 2010
- Published by: Fordham University Press
summary
Things That No Longer Delight Me is a collection of poems about family and memory. This book is filled with objects. The author writes:I like objects for company,to decorate the plainest spaces, decorumandI amass details, jade bracelet, her animal-printdresses, an oval coral cameo.How do objects counter loneliness, she asks, and speak to us of how to behave?In Things That No Longer Delight Me, lyric is driven by a compulsion or need to collect, in order to make sense of the past and stay connected to it.And what if that connection were to be lost? Confronting loss, the book pieces together a family history from stories fragmented and overheard. It asks: What is hearsay and what is history? It seeks to embody story, or historical detail, in lyric form. Resisting nostalgia, its poems respect what is diminished by grief or loss yet reveal details that hold sway over us and give us continuing pleasure.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. xiii-xvi
- Aerogramme
- p. 7
- Watermelons
- p. 8
- Shanghai, 1919
- p. 9
- Moon-gazing Chair
- p. 12
- Augury Again
- p. 13
- The Palmer Method
- p. 14
- Four Winds Dying Down
- pp. 15-16
- The Entrance Exam
- p. 18
- Shanghai, 1919, Redux
- pp. 19-20
- Things That No Longer Delight Me
- pp. 25-27
- The Flower Market
- p. 28
- Montale’s You
- p. 41
- Bright Earth
- p. 42
- Third Crescent Moon
- p. 44
- In the Language of the Here and Now
- pp. 45-52
- To Lee Bontecou
- pp. 53-56
Additional Information
ISBN
9780823248995
Related ISBN(s)
9780823231997
MARC Record
OCLC
647886231
Pages
64
Launched on MUSE
2012-06-26
Language
English
Open Access
No