Research Catalog

Title

Corruption : poems / Camille Norton.

Author

Norton, Camille, 1954-

Publication

New York : Harper Perennial, [2005], ©2005.

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Details

Description

xv, 87 pages; 21 cm.

Series Statement

The national poetry series

Uniform Title

National poetry series.

Contents

I. Corruption -- The green baize table -- Index of prohibited images -- I. John in the wild IV -- II. Judith and Holofernes -- III. Medusa -- Corruption -- I. The Medicis -- II. The monsters -- III. The saints -- Savonarola's cape -- Three slaves and Michelangelo Buonarroti -- I. The young slave -- II. The awakening slave -- III. Atlas -- The ideal city -- In the small refectory -- Napoleon's boots and Dante's body -- Paradise -- I. Itza historian, Tayasal, Guatemala, 1525 -- II. Father Urbita, Tayasal, Guatemala, 1618 -- III. Itza historian : arrival of father Delgado, Tayasal, Guatemala, 1622 -- The Africans of Ravenna -- At the Chinese Museum, Locke, California -- Still life with oranges and walnuts, 1722 -- II. Camera obscura -- Incomprehensible triangles -- Camera obscura -- Aperture -- Gorgias -- In the bardo -- I. The bardo of first things -- II. The bardo of the dream -- III. The bardo of the mind in contemplation -- IV. The bardo of the dead -- Thirst -- The mirror stage -- I. Foolish girl, counting the days -- II. I dreamed last night I had a date with John F. Kennedy -- III. I suppose they call this menopause, the way I'm flashing off and on -- Subterranean -- I. Joseph Le Conte at Soda Springs, Yosemite, 1870 -- II. Marianne Moore at Mount Rainier, 1922 -- III. At the bomb shelter expo with my father, Philadelphia, 1962 -- III. Songs against ending -- Monday music -- Eight pieces for Gertrude Stein -- Songs against ending -- I. The fruit flies -- II. The worm -- III. The water beetle -- IV. The moths -- Interlude with night cows, Amherst, Virginia -- For Denise Levertov -- White page of winter -- Wild animals I have known -- I. Frog prince no. 2 -- II. The ugly duckling -- III. The clone lover -- IV. The home of the hydromedusa -- V. Paul Bunyan and his blue ox, Babe -- Scattered remnant : the Altamont, California -- Hush -- Night swimming.

ISBN

0060799137 (pbk.)

LCCN

• 2004062006
• 9780060799137

OCLC

• OCM57039661
• SCSB-5218848

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries