Research Catalog

Title

Empire burlesque / Mark Svenvold.

Author

Svenvold, Mark, 1958-

Publication

Columbus : Ohio State University Press, [2008], ©2008.

Supplementary Content

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Details

Description

ix, 79 pages; 23 cm

Note

• "Winner of the 2007 The Ohio State University Press/The journal award in poetry"--Cover.
• Ohio State University Press/The journal award in poetry. "Ohio State University Press/The journal award in poetry."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Memo: Understanding As I Do That This Little Work ... -- Pt. 1. Plus Ultra -- Jeffersonian -- Pt. 2. Landscape with Man, Ax -- I. Exeunt -- II. Memo: from the Platte -- III. Voyager, 1804 -- IV. Memo: To the Assembled Company -- Memo: As the State of Mind in Which We Are, Generally, Gives the Colouring to Events, When the Imagination is Suffered to Wander into Futurity -- A Crossing -- Untoward Memo -- The Bitterroot -- Sacagawea Somniloquy -- V. Celestial -- VI. Shannon, Lost -- VII. (When does it begin, this blurring into error?) -- VIII. (Evening evolves a salad of shadows) -- IX. Upper Missouri: In Search of the Shoshone -- X. Shannon, Found -- XI. Lochsa River Apology -- XII. Our Story (So Far) As the Function f(x) -- Coda: The Past as Obsolete Gesture -- Memo: From The Course of Empire by Bernard DeVoto -- Pt. 3. Let Nothing You Dismay -- I Recall Being Beautifully Stoned -- The White Pages -- Minimalism (After Empire, a film by Andy Warhol) -- Pre-Amputee To Reviewers -- Catastrophilia: As If Written Somewhere, Say, At A Place Unknown, And, Perhaps, Never to be Known (To Ambrose Bierce) -- Glib -- Memo: to Bierce, Crossing the Mississippi -- Empire Burlesque -- Pt. 4. News to Pluto -- News to Pluto -- Helen, the Extra Special -- Catastrophila (Once, so drunk I spoke spontaneous Danish) -- Brodsky, Seattle, 1984 -- Moon Too Easy After Bone -- Orpheus, Pt. Townsend, Washington -- Catastrophilia: The High Concept -- Long Time Traveling Here Below -- To an Unknown Poet, Dead at 39 -- Memo on the Sublime: To Longinus from San Francisco.

ISBN

• 9780814251669 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0814251668 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780814291559 (cd-rom)
• 0814291554 (cd-rom)

LCCN

• 2007023073
• 40015209411

OCLC

• ocn138342353
• 138342353
• SCSB-5395464

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries