Continued
Publication Year: 2005
Published by: Wesleyan University Press
Cover
Title Page, Copyright
Contents
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pp. vii-x
Acknowledgments
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pp. xi-
Most of these poems were first published in the Polish collections listed in the table of contents. "Prospects in Prose," "Communication Department," "Sometimes, Yes," and "Great, Now What" first appeared in Nowe stosunki wyrazow (New relations of words, 1997)- "Little Graves," ...
Foreword
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pp. xiii-xv
Piotr Sommer's poetic excavations of the quotidian will, I hope, be a cause for real excitement among American readers unfamiliar with his work. The poems themselves are quite approachable and need little by way of explanation. But allow me to share a few thoughts about the work and the poet that may be helpful. ...
Shepherd's Song
Morning on Earth
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Yesterday
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Visibility
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Municipal Services
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Continued
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i.m. Milton Hindus
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Short Version
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Tomorrow
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Shepherd's Song
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From Elsewhere
Sometimes.Yes
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Lyric Factor and Other Poems
Indiscretions
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Candle
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Amnesia
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Station Lights
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Landscape with Branch
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Transparencies
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Innocence
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Believe me
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Home and Night
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Guesswork
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Days of the Week
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Travel Permit, Round Trip
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Leaves and Comes Back
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Medicine
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According to Brecht
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A Certain Tree in Powazki Cemetery
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Fragile
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Don't Sleep,Take Notes
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Third State
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Liberation, in Language
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Landscape with Wind
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Worldliness
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Neolith
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Talkativeness
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Grammar
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Ah, Continuity
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Lighter, Darker
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pp. 46-
Proofs
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Apolitical Poem
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Ode to the Carnival
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Don't Worry, It Won't Get Lost
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pp. 51-
Receding Planets of the Rowan Tree
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Out of Town
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Prospects in Prose
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A Small Treatise on Non-Contradiction
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A Maple Leaf
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From Elsewhere
Little Graves
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A Subsequent World
The January Star
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Mikuś, Adam, Wieniek, and Me
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Easter
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Celebrations
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Line
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A Visit
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Small Cripplings
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Hi, Helena
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Space
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Standards from the Seventies
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You Can Walk Tall
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Another World
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Hygiene
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Potatoes
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In the Provinces
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One Day
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pp. 83-
From Elsewhere
Communication Department
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pp. 87-
Confirmation
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pp. 88-89
What We're Remembered By
First Sentence
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pp. 93-94
This Is Certain
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Two Poems for Suchy
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pp. 96-98
Old Frame Houses of Radość
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pp. 99-
A Bit More Effort, Please
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Between Bus Stop and Home
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Domestic
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Says the Son
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Transportist
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pp. 104-
Belated Letter
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pp. 105-110
From Elsewhere
Great, Now What
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pp. 113-
Other Half
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pp. 114-115
From the American
Things to Translate
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pp. 119-123
List of poems, prose pieces, and translators
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pp. 124-127
About the author
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pp. 128-
Piotr Sommer grew up in Otwock, a small town outside of Warsaw. He studied English at the University of Warsaw, and now edits Literatura na Sruierie (World literature), a Polish magazine of international writing. He has taught poetry at Amherst College, Mount Holyoke College, Wesleyan University, and the Universities ...
E-ISBN-13: 9780819569752
Print-ISBN-13: 9780819567673
Page Count: 144
Publication Year: 2005
Series Title: Wesleyan Poetry Series
