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What the darkness proposes : poems

Title
What the darkness proposes : poems / by Charles Martin.
Author
Martin, Charles, 1942-
Publication
Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, [1996], ©1996.

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Description
71 pages; 24 cm.
Summary
In this new collection by poet and translator Charles Martin, a darkly comic vision engages an unpredictable variety of subjects in poems of astute technical assurance. Here we find a displaced snapping turtle, advertisements that look back at us, the link between classical Athens and a television quiz show, and a variety of other wonders, including the unsettling possibility of a poetry reading.
Series Statement
Johns Hopkins, poetry and fiction
Uniform Title
Johns Hopkins, poetry and fiction.
Contents
For a Child of Seven, Taken by the Jesuits -- Breaking Old Ground -- Victoria's Secret -- Tonight's Jeopardy -- Souvenirs of the Late War -- A Night at the Opera -- Getting the Miracle Wrong -- Flying Heads -- Beauty -- Death with a Coda -- The Two of Them -- The Philosopher's Balloon -- A Walk in the Hills above the Artists' House -- Reflections after a Dry Spell -- Modernism: The Short Course -- At Home with Psyche and Eros -- Vain Speculations -- Still Life with Pears -- To a Snapping Turtle, Lately Hatched -- Stanzas after Endgame.
ISBN
0801854873 (acid-free paper)
LCCN
96018437
OCLC
ocm34604274
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries