In this Book
- In the Black Window: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS
- Book
- 2010
- Published by: University of Illinois Press
- Series: Illinois Poetry Series
summary
The title of Michael Van Walleghen's new collection evokes thematic preoccupations that have shadowed him throughout his long career. Appearing as a phrase in the poems themselves, In the Black Window more generally points to Van Walleghen's enduring interest in the intersection between inner and outer worlds of experience--those liminal moments in other worlds where we become aware of ourselves. We live at once in a strictly personal, material dimension but also in a distinctly spiritual one. Yet, when looking from a lighted kitchen into a night-black window on a winter evening, we might perhaps become suddenly aware not only of our own reflection, but also of our complicity in some deeper mystery altogether.
Table of Contents
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- Table of Contents
- pp. ix-xi
- New Poems (2003)
- Once More with Mother on the Beach
- pp. 20-23
- Three-Ring Circus
- pp. 24-26
- When . . .
- pp. 27-29
- Coelacanth
- pp. 33-34
- The Other Shoe
- pp. 35-36
- Light Takes the Tree
- pp. 37-39
- The Franz Kafka Fellowship Hotel
- pp. 40-42
- The Former Life
- pp. 43-45
- Transformer
- pp. 46-48
- Fixer-Upper
- pp. 49-50
- Persimmon Fjord
- pp. 51-52
- The Man in the Diving Suit
- pp. 53-55
- The Wichita Poems (1975)
- A Good Excuse
- p. 62
- The Permanence of Witches
- pp. 63-64
- The Alligators
- pp. 65-66
- More Trouble with the Obvious (1981)
- More Trouble with the Obvious
- pp. 71-72
- Crabapples
- pp. 73-74
- The Sibyl at Snug Harbor
- pp. 75-76
- The Fisherman
- pp. 77-78
- The Honeymoon of the Muse
- pp. 79-80
- Walking the Baby to the Liquor Store
- pp. 81-82
- Fun at Crystal Lake
- pp. 83-84
- Driving into Enid
- pp. 85-86
- Arizona Movies
- pp. 87-92
- Blue Tango (1989)
- The Age of Reason
- pp. 95-97
- The Spoiled Child
- pp. 98-100
- The Afterlife
- pp. 101-102
- Lake Limbo
- pp. 105-106
- Blue Tango
- pp. 107-109
- Bowling Alley
- pp. 110-111
- Hanging On like Death
- pp. 116-117
- Fishing with Children
- pp. 118-119
- Creative Writing
- pp. 120-121
- Hamburger Heaven
- pp. 122-123
- Tall Birds Stalking (1994)
- Adios Zarathustra
- pp. 129-131
- The Awards Banquet
- pp. 132-136
- In the Chariot Drawn by Dragons
- pp. 137-138
- Crawlspace
- pp. 139-140
- Tall Birds Stalking
- pp. 143-148
- Uncomfortable Procedures
- pp. 149-151
- The Last Neanderthal (1999)
- The Elephant in Winter
- pp. 158-160
- Twilight of the Neanderthals
- pp. 167-172
- Shangri-La
- pp. 175-177
- In the Company of Manatees
- pp. 178-180
- The Last Neanderthal
- pp. 181-183
Additional Information
ISBN
9780252092725
Related ISBN(s)
9780252029219, 9780252071782
MARC Record
OCLC
815477959
Pages
208
Launched on MUSE
2013-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2004