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- Orbit
- Book
- 2016
- Published by: University of Pittsburgh Press
- Series: Pitt Poetry Series
summary
Orbit connects the intimate with what is farthest from us, mixing what we can imagine with what is daily and near. Landscapes stretch from stable and fulfilling domestic interiors to the destiny of our sun as an exploding red giant. That dilemma of human fertility and love facing ultimate destruction is orchestrated by the author’s provocative voice and coiled lines, which fondle and handle the reader’s heart and mind in a bright light. The book insists on connecting the three eras of human experience – Then, Now, and When – at every turn. Orbit continues the unique aesthetic of Vogelsang’s first five award-winning books through its “oddly direct original persona,” its “mind – prophetic, wild, loony,” its “language of surveillance and trembling,” and the poems’ ability “to find and magnify the emotion suddenly, instantaneously” (comments draw from other poets’ reviews.) Vogelsang’s new book Orbit is a dialogue between daily life and transcendent vision, insisting on the reality of each.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. i-iv
- Then
- Two Natives
- pp. 6-7
- Before 1901
- p. 13
- Herring Run
- pp. 15-16
- Ogden Nash
- p. 17
- “A Mirror One Carries Along a Road”
- pp. 19-20
- Now
- An Occurrence at . . .
- pp. 23-27
- Blood vs. Spirit
- p. 28
- Canto Zero
- pp. 32-34
- July, Paris
- p. 37
- Weekend Retreat
- p. 38
- A Letter, Please
- p. 39
- Betrayal—Oranges and Apples
- pp. 42-43
- My Brain’s Storage
- p. 44
- Not How It Works
- p. 45
- Handled It Just Right
- pp. 47-48
- When
- 62 Miles Not 7,926 Miles
- pp. 51-52
- A Wet Desk
- p. 64
- Black and White
- pp. 66-67
- Scalper’s Website
- pp. 68-69
- Wait a Minute, It’s Simple
- pp. 74-76
- Acknowledgments
- p. 77
Additional Information
ISBN
9780822981336
Related ISBN(s)
9780822964094
MARC Record
OCLC
944402965
Pages
85
Launched on MUSE
2016-03-15
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2016