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- Signs & Wonders
- Book
- 2011
- Published by: Johns Hopkins University Press
- Series: Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction
summary
Winner of the CNY Book Award in Poetry of the YMCA of Greater SyracuseSigns is a noun (as in DO NOT DISTURB);Wonders (as in "with furrowed brows"), a verb. The couplet that leads into Charles Martin's fifth collection of richly inventive poems suggests that the world is to be read into and wondered over. The signs in this new work from the prize-winning American poet of formal brilliance and darkly comic sensibility are as stark as the one on a cage at the zoo that says ENDANGERED SPECIES, as surprising as those that announce the return of irony, and as enigmatic as a single word carved on a tombstone. Renowned for his translations of Ovid's Metamorphoses and the poems of Catullus, Martin brings the perspective of history to bear on the stuff of contemporary life.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright Page
- pp. i-vi
- I/ The Life in Letters
- The Flower Thief
- p. 5
- The Sacred Monsters
- p. 10
- Words to Utter at Nightfall
- pp. 11-12
- Mind in the Trees
- pp. 13-15
- Autopsychography
- p. 16
- East Side, West Side
- pp. 18-23
- To Himself
- p. 24
- Brooklyn in the Seventies
- pp. 25-27
- This Organizing Solitude
- pp. 28-29
- Theory Victorious
- p. 30
- II/ Some Romans
- Ovid to His Book
- pp. 35-40
- III/ Near Jeffrey’s Hook
- Poem for the Millennium
- pp. 48-49
- Who Knows What’s Best?
- pp. 50-51
- Getting Carded
- p. 52
- For the End of the Age of Irony
- pp. 53-55
- Near Jeffrey’s Hook
- pp. 56-61
- Foreboding
- p. 62
- After 9/11
- pp. 63-68
- After Wang Wei
- p. 69
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 77-78
- About the Author
- pp. 79-80
Additional Information
ISBN
9781421401065
Related ISBN(s)
9780801899744
MARC Record
OCLC
798295748
Pages
96
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No