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Oblivio Gate /
Suffused with lyrical grace and the language of loss, Sean Nevin's Oblivio Gate explores the mental and emotional struggles of Solomon, a veteran battling the onslaught of Alzheimer's disease. Set against Solomon's memories of the Korean War, Nevin's poems draw us into an intimat...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Carbondale :
Southern Illinois University Press,
2008.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; One. Losing Solomon; Losing Solomon; Hippocampus; Thirty-Nine Years on the Job; Solomon's Tool Shed; Montclair Vespers; Walking Bees; Wildfire Triptych; Fainting at My Grandfather's Funeral; Two. Oblivio Gate; Oblivio Gate; Three. Solomon's Palimpsest; Solomon's Palimpsest; Four. Wisdom; Wisdom; The Gnome and I Catch Dawn; The Carpenter Bee; Self-Portrait as Tithonus; Self-Portrait as Aurora; The Incident; Sundowning; Again, the Gnome and I Catch Dawn; Alzheimer's; Heart of the Tyrant King; The Other Dream in Which He Is Weightless.
- Hinged Double Sonnet for the Luna MothsWorking and Singing; Elegy; September, North Fullerton Avenue; Five. Self-Portraits from the Widow House; Self-Portraits from the Widow House; Notes; Other Books in the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry; Back Cover.