Research Catalog

Title

A taxi to the flame : poems / by Vickie Karp.

Author

Karp, Vickie.

Publication

Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, [1999], ©1999.

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Details

Description

xi, 52 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

A Taxi to the Flame is a journey through the streets of New York City, foreign landscapes, and past and present events. From rattling Manhattan subways where underground riders transform on Halloween night, to suburban mornings in which a hedge clipper neatens a waking vision of the world, the poems are a love story of destinations met, people remembered, and places found at the intersections of words and dreams.

Series Statement

The James Dickey contemporary poetry series

Uniform Title

James Dickey contemporary poetry series.

Contents

A Note on Vickie Karp -- Spark -- Police Sift New Clues in Search for Beauty -- Tulips: A Selected History -- A Taxi to the Flame -- Glass -- Dust -- Harm -- Stars -- Goodbye -- One Hundred Well-Cut Leaves -- Elegy -- The Consequences of Waking -- On Your Birthday, Looking through a Telescope at Jupiter -- Tied to the Earth -- Insurance -- Watching the Commuters Read -- The Red Dress -- Still Life in the Coat Factory Office -- Places You'll Never Go -- How Peace, after Asking Its Question, Becomes War -- Part of Night -- Sitting on the Beach with Nachman -- Boat -- The Juniper Bonsai -- The Neighborhood Environmental Center -- Getting Dressed in the Dark -- The Lost Lover -- Driving Home -- Winter and Its Steps -- On the Satin Virtues of Milk -- Endless Greetings -- The Powers of Time and Space -- Dark Blue Ribbons under the Streets of the City.

ISBN

• 1570032955 (alk. paper)
• 1570032963 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

98058075

OCLC

ocm40408936

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries