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Title

The very thought of you : poems / by Andy Robbins.

Author

Robbins, Andy.

Publication

Athens : University of Georgia Press, [1999], ©1999.

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Details

Description

56 pages; 22 cm.

Summary

Andy Robbins concludes, that "Art and life are not the same. Never". He challenges the nature of both with this volume of highly personal, sensual, searching poetry that treats life as a work in progress, with love, in all its aspects, as its driving force. Though the individual works are as unique in subject as in structure the book is unified by a discomfort with emotional and intellectual stagnancy, with ancient mythology, religious doctrines, and popular culture.

Series Statement

The Contemporary poetry series

Uniform Title

Contemporary poetry series (University of Georgia Press)

Contents

"The bend of the cornea ..." -- Tarsus -- Parablepsis by the Well -- "A, ye douce geisters ..." -- Wonderland -- May Day -- "All nights are the one night" -- Clouds -- "I am a lone mahogany ..." -- "Here is the room ..." -- Garlic, Sherry, Mushrooms, Barley -- Method #4 -- Stink -- Au bout de l'anglais -- Prepositional Again -- Logos oriens -- All Is Well? Sure Enough! -- Reading, Not Sleeping -- Solve et Coagula -- "They call me Sunshine ..." -- "I want to have a boat" -- Ghazal -- Coordinates -- Fino alla Feccia -- The Allegorists -- "So you've grown ..." -- "And if that pliancy ..." -- "Supposing I understand ..." -- Composure -- "May a god torture me ..." -- The Wreck of the Father Island III -- Ace -- "Must have been something hard ..." -- "How, meaning, I took it ..."

ISBN

0820320994 (pbk. : acid-free paper)

LCCN

98039542

OCLC

ocm39671380

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries