No second Eden [[electronic resource] ] : poems / / Turner Cassity
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| Autore: |
Cassity Turner
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| Titolo: |
No second Eden [[electronic resource] ] : poems / / Turner Cassity
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| Pubblicazione: | Athens, : Swallow Press/Ohio University Press, c2002 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (79 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 811.54 |
| 811/.54 | |
| Soggetto topico: | American poetry |
| American literature | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di contenuto: | A Member of the Mystik Krewe; The Metrist at the Operetta; Stylization and Its Failures; WTC; Cities of the Plain and Fancy; Not to Seize the Moment; Transpositions; Aurora Borealis of the Inner Eye; The Creatures of Prometheus; Uses of Hot Air; Junkerdom in Huntsville; Distant Early Warning; The Dueling Scar; Karl and Julius and Gregory, or, Are You a Fructidor?; Sonar Readings; Now You See It, Now You Don't; A Diamond Is Forever; Oysters and Other Workers; Smile Please; Adam with a Garden Hose; Let My People Go, but not without Severance Pay; Manual vs. White Collar |
| Program Notes for an OrgyIn the Matter of Graven Images; Sensitivity Training: The Safecracker; J. P. Morgan; Neckties; A Different Perspective on A Rebours; Favorites; Crime and Punishment; Boxcar Arthur and Other Myth; Enola Gay Rights; The Second-Guesser; Estate Planning; I Dreamed Last Night I Went Again to Manderley; Victory; In the Receiving Line; Venerations; Hanging On; Why Geriatrics Are Not Sacrificed; Watching the Stopwatch Stopping; The Ultimate National Monument; The Grateful Minimalist | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | If you think that Turner Cassity has mellowed or slowed down since the 1998 release of his selected poems, The Destructive Element, think again. In No Second Eden Cassity is back more Swiftian than ever. Among the targets reduced to ruin are countertenors, parole boards, the French Symbolists, calendar reformers, the Yale Divinity School, and the cult of Elvis. Without turning a blind eye, he even extends a toast to Wernher von Braun. Surprisingly, there is a poem about the Mississippi in which Cassity grew up. Unsurprisingly, it is a vision quite unlike others of |
| Titolo autorizzato: | No second Eden |
| ISBN: | 0-8040-4004-4 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910811428503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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