An astonishing collection of poetry that speaks to America at the end of the 20th century.
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Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
Irwin may not have garnered much attention with two previous volumes (Against the Meanwhile; The Halo of Desire), but this startling new work commands a wide audience. He raises well considered political questions: "Bucharest 1981" is a brilliant lyric about people met there: "Everyone in this poem/ is dead, except one girl, pouring light or water,/ and myself, reading very late at night." Nothing is quite as it seems in these complex poems, and yet Irwin's voice is free of obscurantist private symbols. "I am drawing light bulbs/ alongside skulls. I want to blur that distinction/ between the frivolous/ and the dead," he says in the long sequence, "Turbo-Descartes." Moreover, he succeeds, within 20 pages juxtaposing such disparate references as The Statue of Liberty, Jesus, a Xerox machine, Popeye, Marilyn Monroe, Simplicity Pattern #8392 and the movie Gone with the Wind, to form a tragicomic history of past and future. Although Irwin has learned from more experimental poets how to release sentences from their anticipated syntax, his intellect and the urgency of his words remain traditionally steadfast.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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6 August 1945
Airport
Almost Never
Archbishop Of Canterbury Ramsey And The Bishop Of Southwick
As Long As
Bucharest, 1981
Buffalo Nickel
Domestic
The Face
For Jackson Pollock (1913-1956)
The Fray
Gorge
Grand Canyon
Heart
History's Pause
J.f.k.'s 45 Birthday: Madison Square Garden
The Juvescence Of Autumn
Motion
On Language
Orpheus
Quick, Now, Always
Robert Mapplethorpe's Photograph Of Apollo (1988)
Rumors Of Civilization And History
Spring
Tock
Tomato Soup
Turbo-descartes
Vista
Warhol
We
We
What I Mean, I Guess, Is This
White
Woolworth's
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®
Airport
Almost Never
Archbishop Of Canterbury Ramsey And The Bishop Of Southwick
As Long As
Bucharest, 1981
Buffalo Nickel
Domestic
The Face
For Jackson Pollock (1913-1956)
The Fray
Gorge
Grand Canyon
Heart
History's Pause
J.f.k.'s 45 Birthday: Madison Square Garden
The Juvescence Of Autumn
Motion
On Language
Orpheus
Quick, Now, Always
Robert Mapplethorpe's Photograph Of Apollo (1988)
Rumors Of Civilization And History
Spring
Tock
Tomato Soup
Turbo-descartes
Vista
Warhol
We
We
What I Mean, I Guess, Is This
White
Woolworth's
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®
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