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- Eternity & Oranges
- Book
- 2016
- Published by: University of Pittsburgh Press
- Series: Pitt Poetry Series
summary
“We’d not slept in days, or else we were/ still sleeping—who could tell?” someone asks in the opening poem of Eternity & Oranges. The voices we encounter in this book speak on the verge of disappearance, from places marked by disintegration and terror. Christopher Bakken's poems are acts of conjuring. They move from the real political landscapes of Greece, Italy, and Romania, into more surreal spaces where history comes alive and the summoned dead speak. In the formally diverse long poem, “Kouros/Kore,” but also in this book’s terse and harrowing dream songs, Bakken writes with devastating force, at every turn “Guilty of the crime of praise” while “begging for an antidote to beauty.”
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. i-vi
- Translation
- p. 12
- Resistance
- p. 13
- Confession
- p. 20
- Possession, Macedonia
- pp. 22-25
- Last Station of No One’s Cross
- pp. 27-28
- Still Life
- p. 29
- Amphitheater
- p. 30
- Kouros/Kore
- pp. 32-56
- Squid Fishing
- pp. 62-63
- The Skyros Papers
- pp. 64-65
- Troppo Mare
- pp. 66-67
- Recessional
- p. 69
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 75-76
Additional Information
ISBN
9780822981282
Related ISBN(s)
9780822964049
MARC Record
OCLC
944402964
Pages
87
Launched on MUSE
2016-03-15
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2016