02843nam 2200577 450 991046611090332120200520144314.00-8229-8128-9(CKB)3710000000613237(EBL)4525856(SSID)ssj0001634106(PQKBManifestationID)16385222(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001634106(PQKBWorkID)14949171(PQKB)11476891(MiAaPQ)EBC4525856(MdBmJHUP)muse50997(OCoLC)944402964(Au-PeEL)EBL4525856(CaPaEBR)ebr11221913(CaONFJC)MIL907192(EXLCZ)99371000000061323720160629h20162016 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrEternity & oranges /Christopher BakkenPittsburgh, Pennsylvania :University of Pittsburgh Press,2016.©20161 online resource (88 p.)Pitt Poetry SeriesPoems.0-8229-6404-X Intro; Contents; Aubade; Interior with a Closed Notebook; Impressions of a Drowning Man; Thyrsus; Report from the Office of Optical Illusions; Denial; Translation; Resistance; 17.ix.07; Sentence; Some Things along Strada C. A. Rosetti; Confession; Myth; Possession, Macedonia; Appeal; Last Station of No One's Cross; Still Life; Amphitheater; Exterior with Knife and Net; Kouros/Kore; Altar; Elegy; A Poem Not Written by Yannis Ritsos on the Day of My Birth; Squid Fishing; The Skyros Papers; Troppo Mare; Stake; Recessional; Defiance; Interior with a Bowl of Matches; Notes; Acknowledgments"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."Pitt poetry series.Eternity and orangesAmerican poetry21st centuryElectronic books.American poetry811.608Bakken Christopher949689MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910466110903321Eternity & oranges2146522UNINA