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- For the Scribe
- Book
- 2017
- Published by: University of Pittsburgh Press
- Series: Pitt Poetry Series
summary
For the Scribe, the ninth collection by award-winning poet David Wojahn, continues his explorations of the interstices between the public and the private, the historical and the personal. Poems of recollection and elegy commingle and conjoin with poems which address larger matters of historical and ecological import. The subjects of extinction and apocalypse figure prominently and obsessively in these pages, both in short lyrics and in several lengthy sequences. The poems also evidence the mastery of technique for which Wojahn is renowned, whether he is writing in fixed forms or in free verse. For the Scribe is the most ambitious and searching collection thus far from a poet who has been a named finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in poetry, winner of the Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets, the O. B. Hardison Award from the Folger Shakespeare Library, and the William Carlos Williams Book Award.
Table of Contents
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- i.
- My Father’s Soul Departing
- pp. 5-6
- Canis Familiarus
- pp. 31-34
- ii.
- Elegy: Robot Folding Laundry
- pp. 37-38
- Absolute Rhythm
- pp. 39-41
- Nineteen Eleven Blues
- pp. 45-49
- Extinction Event: Decoy Birds
- pp. 50-52
- Study Skins
- pp. 53-55
- Anniversary Poem
- pp. 69-70
- iii.
- In the Attic
- pp. 76-77
- Chalk Line
- pp. 78-81
- Concerning Pan
- pp. 85-87
- Jefferson Composing His Bible
- pp. 102-103
- Lorine Niedecker: The Only Recording, 1970
- pp. 106-108
- Ode to Fox P2
- pp. 109-112
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 117-118
Additional Information
ISBN
9780822982494
Related ISBN(s)
9780822964544
MARC Record
OCLC
975238562
Pages
127
Launched on MUSE
2017-03-14
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2017