Research Catalog

Title

Slag / Mark Sullivan ; introduction by Robert Fink.

Author

Sullivan, Mark, 1961-

Publication

Lubbock, Tex. : Texas Tech University Press, [2005], ©2005.

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Details

Description

xii, 74 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"The poems in Slag begin with everyday experiences - a glance at a construction site or the boredom of waiting for a bus - and then use such unpromising events to explore what Mexican poet Octavio Paz once called "the dark, forgotten miracle of being alive." Whether meditating on New York's diamond district or the death of the last person to have known Van Gogh, Mark Sullivan's lyric consciousness expands from initial points of contact to ever-broadening associations. The result is an evocative, reflective poetry that recognizes in the slow advance of the loris across its Bronx Zoo cage what it means "to love the world or to fear / it."" "Sullivan pays special attention to animals and the natural world, to the visual arts, and to the relentless stimulation of the nation's largest city, his free verse creating a lucid language where slam dunks and Zeno's paradoxes coexist, where the stillness of a snail discovered in a package of spinach reveals "the process that makes the world.""--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

The Walt McDonald first-book series in poetry

Uniform Title

Walt McDonald first-book series in poetry.

Contents

Ketchup bottles, table and coat -- Slow loris -- The peaceable kingdom -- Comet -- Desire lines -- Luck -- Attachment -- Snail -- Slag -- Thales' principle -- La Nuit americaine -- To the dream bird -- Zeno in paradox -- Night ball -- Instant -- Variations on a long exposure -- A vase of faded chrysanthemums -- Vie contemplative - Elle ouvre son livre -- Just outside -- "Longest life ends" -- A man receding -- Recess by moonlight -- Stop motion -- Revival -- The old neighborhood -- Diamond district -- Reserve heads -- My love feeds the crows -- Fragment from an adoration -- Study for an unfinished landscape.

ISBN

0896725472 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

2004021717

OCLC

• ocm56794592
• SCSB-5183894

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries