Research Catalog

Title

Earthly delights : poems / Troy Jollimore.

Author

Jollimore, Troy, 1971-

Publication

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2021]

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Details

Description

112 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"Earthly Delights begins with an invocation to the muse and ends with the departure of Odysseus from Ithaca. In between, Troy Jollimore's distinguished new collection ranges widely, with cinematic and adventurous poems that often concern artistic creation and its place in the world. A great many center on films, from Andrei Tarkovsky's Nostalghia to Paul Thomas Anderson's Boogie Nights. The title poem reflects on Hieronymus Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights, while another is an elegy for Gord Downie, the lead singer and lyricist for the cult rock band The Tragically Hip. Other poems address various forms of political insanity, from the Kennedy assassination to today's active shooter drills, and philosophical ideas, from Ralph Waldo Emerson's musings on beauty to John D. Rockefeller's thoughts on the relation between roses and capitalist ethics. The book's longest poem, "American Beauty," returns repeatedly to the film of that name, but ultimately becomes a meditation on the Western history of making and looking, and-like many of the book's poems-an elegy for lost things"--

Series Statement

Princeton series of contemporary poets

Uniform Title

Princeton series of contemporary poets.

Subjects

• Canada > Poetry
• Poetry

Genre/Form

Poetry.

Contents

Machine generated contents note: THE WHOLE SKY SPARKLING, ALL DIAMONDS -- Marvelous Things without Number -- That Life -- At Limantour -- Self-Portrait in Invisible Ink -- Poem for Gord Downie -- Early Morning, Upper Bidwell Park -- Unearned Season -- Andre Gregory Said -- Screenshots: Vanya on 42nd Street -- Screenshots: Nostalghia -- The Garden of Earthly Delights -- THE REPUBLIC FORGETS -- A Toast -- Free Huey P. Newton with Every Purchase -- Fur ALICE -- Silence and Residue of Waters -- Zapruder Film Blooper Reel -- Screenshots: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind -- Screenshots: No Country for Old Men -- Screenshots: The Talented Mr. Ripley -- Next Life -- All the Mysteries -- The Poem You Will Not Live to Write -- Landscape with Ambiguous Symbols -- LET THEM SEE THE IMAGES THAT ARE DOOMED TO DISAPPEAR -- Screenshots: Being John Malkovich -- Screenshots: Boogie Nights -- Screenshots: Cocksucker Blues -- American Beauty -- THOUGH WE MAY AT TIMES ADMIRE THE BEAUTY OF THEIR WEAPONS -- Theses to Be Nailed to the Door of the Last of the Golden Age Motion Picture Palaces, Following the Final Screening -- Screenshots: Delicatessen -- Screenshots: A Serious Man -- Screenshots: Certified Copy -- Want -- Fire -- Postscript to Fire -- Field of Dead Sunflowers -- The House Committee on Un-American Activities Pauses to Reflect on Its Service to the Country -- SING THE STRING BENT SKYWARD -- Spices -- Screenshots: Paterson -- Screenshots: Synecdoche, New York -- Screenshots: Inside Llewyn Davis -- Song to be Sung When the Instruments Falter -- Scordatura -- The Nightingale -- The Adventure -- Odysseus Departing.

Call Number

JFE 21-7921

ISBN

• 9780691218830
• 0691218838
• 9780691218823
• 069121882X

LCCN

2021003001

OCLC

1233021522

Author

Jollimore, Troy, 1971- author.

Title

Earthly delights : poems / Troy Jollimore.

Publisher

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2021]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Princeton series of contemporary poets

Princeton series of contemporary poets.

Research Call Number

JFE 21-7921