In this Book
- Fabulae
- Book
- 2002
- Published by: Southern Illinois University Press
- Series: Crab Orchard Series in Poetry
summary
In Fabulae, Joy Katz interrogates the physical world, constructing a sensual and striking autobiography. She turns to the familiarity and strangeness of the female body, its surfaces and inner workings, often, although her subjects range from Thomas Jefferson to an Adam and Eve plagued with obsessive-compulsive disorder to the streets of New York’s diamond district. The poems, by turns funny and philosophical, point to how we suffer from desire: the danger, she writes, is that we might love the world “like heaven and be lost.” But they come back to delight in a flawed world especially the palpable beauty of words, and even the erotic shapes of the letterforms that make them up.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page
- p. 4
- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-11
- Following the Orthodox Men
- pp. 1-13
- Following the Orthodox Men
- pp. 4-15
- From the Forest of Canes
- pp. 5-6
- A Nation So Ignorant of Itself
- pp. 10-11
- The Word Wife
- pp. 13-25
- On Wardman Road
- pp. 15-16
- From the Water
- pp. 17-28
- Abraham Considers
- pp. 19-30
- Four Storeys
- pp. 20-31
- A Visit to Seattle
- pp. 24-25
- Falling Toward the Furnace
- pp. 26-37
- Tour Book of Northeastern States
- pp. 27-38
- Sunday Morning and the Light
- pp. 28-39
- The Word Wife
- pp. 29-40
- Lullaby, Four A.M.
- pp. 31-42
- The Old Woman's Delight
- pp. 32-43
- Together In a Small Room
- pp. 35-47
- In the Old Jewish Cemetery, Prague
- pp. 37-48
- Metamorphosis
- pp. 38-49
- Together in a Small Room (1975)
- pp. 39-50
- At Terezin (1992)
- pp. 40-51
- What Remains
- pp. 41-52
- The Entrance
- pp. 42-53
- To a False God
- pp. 43-55
- 24th and Mission
- pp. 45-56
- You Eat With Your Fingers
- pp. 46-57
- Photograph of Plath
- pp. 47-58
- To a False God
- pp. 49-60
- L'Arrivee d'un Train en Gare
- pp. 50-61
- From That Tree, You Must Not Eat
- pp. 52-63
- The Imperfect Is Our Paradise
- pp. 53-64
- After John Taggart
- pp. 54-65
- Note Found Inside a Mezuzah
- pp. 55-66
- Still Life
- pp. 56-67
- Crab Orchard Award Series in Poetry
- pp. 60-71
- Back Cover
- p. 72
Additional Information
ISBN
9780809389216
Related ISBN(s)
9780809324446
MARC Record
OCLC
830678066
Pages
72
Launched on MUSE
2014-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2002