Research Catalog

Title

Perception / Christina Pugh.

Author

Pugh, Christina

Publication

• Tribeca : Four Way Books, [2017]
• Lebanon, NH : University Press of New England

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Details

Additional Authors

Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library). Collections, repository. poe

Description

88 pages; 23 cm

Summary

A suite of minimalist lyric poems punctuated by prose poems explores the mysteries of visual perception and its relationship to poetic language.

Uniform Title

Poems. Selections

Alternative Title

Poems.

Subjects

• 2000-2099
• Poetry
• American poetry > 21st century

Genre/Form

Poetry

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1 [The aperture: the lens] 3 -- Hand-Print 4 -- Stained Calla 5 -- Rain-Soaked 6 -- Snake Among Weeds 7 -- Shopworn 8 -- La Bagatelle 9 -- Stage Clouds 10 -- Instrumentality 11 -- A Window 12 -- Three Blue Butterflies 13 -- The Painting Flew from the Wall 16 -- 2 [The world is not what I think, but what I live through] 17 -- Immersion 18 -- Angle of a Landscape 19 -- Sierra Nevada 20 -- Wingaersheek Beach 21 -- On Metaphor 22 -- A Twig of Evidence 23 -- Clouded Glass 24 -- Burlap 25 -- Archival Slip 26 -- Pink Quill 27 -- Lunar Living 28 -- Hat-Rack 29 -- A Lintel 30 -- 3 [Something I learned about agape when I was young] 31 -- Sweat 32 -- Paperweight 33 -- Violence 34 -- Corps de Ballet 35 -- Aquarium 36 -- Twombly's Peonies 37 -- Botany 38 -- Les fleurs du mal 39 -- Twombly's Peonies (II) 40 -- Radio Marigold 41 -- Glenn Gould 42 -- A Wing 43 -- What Outlines or What Fades Away 44 -- 4 [They can x-ray your retina now.] 45 -- Porcupine Wash 46 -- Method 47 -- Bearded Iris 48 -- The Nest 49 -- Urban 50 -- Mosaic 51 -- Phoning in the Swallowtail 52 -- The Stone 53 -- Sea Gooseberry 54 -- Framed Dragonfly 55 -- 5 [I fractured my ankle near a wildflower preserve] 56 -- A Smaller Purple 57 -- Fireflies from a Distance 58 -- Lantern 59 -- Purling Fountain 60 -- April 61 -- Instrumentality (II) 62 -- Lost Binoculars 63 -- The Smallest 64 -- Territory 65 -- 6 [I was showing you the house on the shore] 66 -- Little as a Daffodil: 67 -- Stays 68 -- Black Bra 69 -- Peaches 70 -- La Bagatelle (II) 71 -- Hindsight 72 -- Paperweight (II) 73 -- Hellenic 74 -- She Asked 75 -- Call the Soul 76 -- 7 [In the end, the problem of the redwoods] 77 -- Last 78 -- Proximate 79 -- Dream Glance 81 -- Ending Eden 82 -- A Shapeless Friend 83 -- Lost Franklinia 84 -- Finis 85 -- Scintilla 86 -- Summer's End 87.

ISBN

• 9781935536888
• 1935536885

LCCN

^^2016034900

OCLC

• 957705002
• SCSB-12195170

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library