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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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Text | Request in advance | PS3563.A7232 W48 1996 | Off-site |
Details
- 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