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UNINA9910458477203321 |
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Middleton Christopher <1926-2015.> |
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Titolo |
Loose cannons : selected prose / / Christopher Middleton ; foreword by August Kleinzahler ; cover art courtesy of Philip Trussell ; book design by Lila Sanchez |
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Albuquerque, New Mexico : , : University of New Mexico Press, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (150 p.) |
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Collana |
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Recencies Series : Research and Recovery in Twentieth-Century American Poetics |
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Soggetti |
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English essays |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Foreword by August Kleinzahler; Prologue by Christopher Middleton; 1; Curbaram; The Birth of the Smile; From the Alexandria Library Gazette; Manuscript in a Lead Casket; A Bachelor; Ignorance; A Memorial to the Room-Collectors; Nine Biplanes; 2; Or Else; Louise Moillon's Apricots (1635); From Serpentine; Ingestion; This Is Lavender; The Green Heron; Commodus; Fruit Bringers; Bivouac; The Image; 3; From Earth Myriad Robed; The Turkish Rooftops; The Execution of Maximilian; Balzac's Face; Cliff's Dwarf; Le Déjeuner; In the Mirror of the Eighth King |
4Coriolan; Parthenogenesis in Charcoal; A Polka in the Evening of Time; The Gaze of the Turkish Mona Lisa; A Postscript to the Great Poem of Time; From Depictions of Blaff; The Pines of Rome; The Sycorax Syndrome; The Weathervane Oiler; Thoreau's Arrow; Sources and Notes; Back Cover |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Like his poetry, Middleton's prose pieces are alive with incongruity, collage, and surprising juxtapositions. |
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