In this Book
- The Couple: The Rider Quintet, vol. 4
- Book
- 2002
- Published by: Wesleyan University Press
summary
In his Rider trilogy, Mark Rudman perfected a mixed genre form -- combining dialogue, lyric and prose. While employing some of the same techniques that have become "signature Rudman" -- the compact, colloquial line, dazzling shifts from popular culture to classical history -- The Couple also breaks new ground. This new book is a collection of discrete poems organized around four poem sequences, "Long-Stemmed Rose," "The Shallowness of the Lake," "Perseus Surprised, Andromeda Unbound," and "Fragile Craft." As the title suggests, the theme of relationships, both dark and erotically-charged, emerges here as Rudman's focus. The couples in the book include parents, lovers, a young boy and girl in elementary school, Perseus and Andromeda, Mary Ure and Robert Shaw, and Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis.
Table of Contents
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- LONG-STEMMED ROSE
- pp. 5-34
- THE GUITAR LESSON
- pp. 35-43
- THE SHALLOWNESS OF THE LAKE
- pp. 44-60
- PERSEUS AND ANDROMEDA
- pp. 61-81
- POSITIONING IN TIME
- pp. 82-83
- FRAGILE CRAFT
- pp. 84-117
- BICOASTAL: BOBBY DARIN AT THE COPA
- pp. 118-128
- TWO HORATIAN PALIMPSESTS
- pp. 132-136
- THE COUPLE
- pp. 137-143
Additional Information
ISBN
9780819570635
Related ISBN(s)
9780819565778
MARC Record
OCLC
731690634
Pages
120
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No