Beyond the Velvet Curtain: Poems (Wick Poetry First Book Series) [Paperback]

Karen Kovacik (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 15, 1999 | Series: Wick Poetry First Book Series (Book 5)

In Beyond the Velvet Curtain, Karen Kovacik illustrates Czeslaw Miloszs dictum that the purpose of poetry is to remind us how difficult it is to remain just one person. Peopled with such characters as Richard Nixon, Nikita Khruschev, Kafkas father, William Carolos Williams, Lawrence Welk, Robespierre, and a feisty Catholic saint, this original collection of poems takes us on an amusement park ride through world history and art.

Editorial Reviews

Review

The Art Of Love
As My Husband Translates From The Polish
Babel
Beyond The Velvet Curtain
Breslau
Checkers
Citoyen
Come As You Are
Cuba Libre
Drought
During The Sorties Over Baghdad
Dust Devils
Einstein's Train
Exile
Frost Heaves
Hermann Kafka's Dinnertime Pantoum
Illinois
Kathe Kollwitz, After A Visit To The New Russia, 1927
Lawrence Welk
Learning To Draw
Losing Language
Making Pierogi
Mastery
Miss Victory (1895)
Nixon And Nikita In The Kitchen
Nixon On The Pleasures Of Undressing A Woman
Nixon's Briefcase By Joseph Cornell
Nixon's Nightmare
Pat Nixon Speaks Of Her Husband's Snoring
The Philosopher Nixon At Frisbee
Polish Jokes
Revising Sylvia
Saint Elizabeth, Queen Of Hungary
Sapphic Sonnets
Shortwave
Synecdoche
Tureen
Watching My Father Pray
Wcw On Marsden Hartley
Wedding Song
What My Father Taught Me About Sex
--Table of Poems from Poem Finder

About the Author

Karen Kovacik teaches in the Department of English at Indiana University-Purdue University of Indianapolis. She is the author of the Wick Chapbook Nixon and I (Kent State University Press, 1998).

Product Details

• Paperback: 66 pages
• Publisher: Kent State Univ Pr (October 15, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0873386477
• ISBN-13: 978-0873386470
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.6 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,818,505 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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