In primary light : poems /

John Wood is well known for his brilliant writing on the history of photography, but for many years he has also centered on his work as a poet, publishing in some of the very best magazines and gaining the deep admiration of many writers and poets. This book is testimony of his devotion to his craft...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Wood, John, 1947 January 2-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Iowa City, IA : University of Iowa Press, ©1994.
Series:Iowa poetry prize.
Subjects:
1900-1999
American poetry.
American poetry > 20th century.
Poésie américaine.
Poésie américaine > 20e siècle.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American Literature.
English.
Languages & Literatures.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The bitter part of heaven
  • The perils of beauty
  • The comeback of Yma Sumac
  • Cancer talkers
  • Upon reading in the newspaper that a man in Kentucky had cut off his hand and his foot with pocketknives and then gouged out an eye in order that he might go to heaven
  • On a photograph I found of two young factory workers standing beside a piece of heavy machinery and inscribed on the reverse "sacred to the memory of friendship"
  • The correct answers
  • The canticle of end-times
  • The kali yuga
  • The wastes of resurrection
  • Opie and the apples
  • Jam
  • How I tried to explain the certainties of faith and Petrunkevitch's famous essay on the wasp and the tarantula to a pentecostal student worried about my soul
  • About their father's business
  • Expulsions
  • Baptisms
  • Conversions
  • Theological meditation
  • Silage
  • Shitheads
  • Reflections on the progress of the western intellectual tradition from Thales to Crick and Watson
  • Hunting for a new chairman; thinking about Giotto.
  • Locomotion and starlight
  • Dreams of standing
  • The myths of meanness
  • Bees
  • Remembering my father riding
  • Elegiac stanza on a photograph of Ethel Rosenberg in her kitchen
  • Elegy
  • Elegy in September
  • Elegiac ode
  • Babies on the beach
  • Flowers for Robert Mapplethorpe
  • The mysteries: elegy at century's close
  • For a friend whose son committed suicide
  • Thinking of Maria Theresa Broussard, a pregnant girl in my freshman class my first semester in Louisiana
  • Seeing a girl who looked like a well-known child actress walking toward san tome, the church in Toledo where el Greco's Burial of the count of orgaz hangs
  • Here in Louisiana
  • The surrounding grace
  • A crown of promise
  • In primary light
  • Self-portrait after Stanley Spencer.

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