Research Catalog

Title

Quick, now, always : poems / by Mark Irwin.

Author

Irwin, Mark.

Publication

Brockport, NY : BOA Editions, 1996.

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Details

Description

87 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

• In this, his third book of poetry, Mark Irwin makes stunning jumps of imagination to create a poetry that is Rilkean in conception and execution, and that speaks to America at the end of the 20th century and to the issues of history, memory, language and consciousness. Irwin's vision is as broad as Whitman's and Hart Crane's, his language propelled by charged rhythms and a lush music.
• These poems address the American experience, from shopping at Woolworth's to traveling into the Grand Canyon, from the art of Robert Mapplethorpe to that of Andy Warhol, who "watched the working class work and it bored [him] to beauty." At the heart of the collection is the sweeping meditation, "Turbo-Descartes," that probes how our myths and machines effect our memories and desires.

Series Statement

American poets continuum series ; vol. 36

Uniform Title

American poets continuum series ; v. 36.

Contents

As Long As -- Bucharest, 1981 -- Vista -- Almost Never -- The Juvescence of Autumn -- Archbishop of Canterbury Ramsey and the Bishop of Southwick -- J.F.K.'s 45th Birthday: Madison Square Garden -- Rumors of Civilization and History -- White -- Airport -- Buffalo Nickel -- Gorge -- Orpheus -- Quick, Now, Always -- Motion -- Tomato Soup -- Warhol -- Woolworth's -- For Jackson Pollock -- Spring -- The Fray -- Turbo-Descartes -- On Language -- 6 August 1945 -- Grand Canyon -- History's Pause -- The Face -- We -- We -- Tock -- Domestic -- Robert Mapplethorpe's Photograph of Apollo -- What I Mean, I Guess, Is This -- Heart.

ISBN

• 1880238306 (cloth)
• 1880238314 (paper)

LCCN

95079997

OCLC

ocm34707864

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries