Selected Poems [Paperback]

Michael Anania (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 1995

A vivid collection of poetry.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Anania (The Sky at Ashland), also a gifted novelist and essayist, is a poet of place. "Geography matters," he writes, and the poetry convinces us, quietly, that he is right. His geography is mostly Midwestern, though not exclusively; can be either rural or urban; and is often infused with a sense of the past, though not sentimentally. One of the strongest portions of the book is "The Riversongs of Arion," a ten-part lyrical meditation on the Missouri River that alludes, as well, to Lewis and Clarke's exploration of the Platte during the early 19th century. In "Riversongs" plainness (a condition of landscape and a literary preference) ascends to a music without leaving behind its sources: sewage and catfish, time and detritus. Another memorable poem is "The Fall," narrated by a man for whom slipping in snow becomes an opportunity to consider an aesthetics of survival. There are times when Anania's otherwise elegantly modest rhythms and meanderings of mind give way to a provisional flatness. But it's good to have a large selection of his work.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Review

1.
10. (in And Out)
2.
3. (the Always Restless, Always Moving On)
4.
5. (as Meriwether Lewis)
6.
7.
8. (signs Is Signs, Mine I Tell You)
9.
After Neruda
After-milking
Afternoons
And So
April Snow: An Improvisation
Arbor Lodge
As In A Pour Tract
Autumn Mornng, 1989
Avant Courier
Blind Pew
Borrowed Music
Cantilena
Complaint
Consolation
Constructions
The Darker Colors
Demi-ode: Binomial Quantities
Diversions Upon An Old Refrain
Document
Drifts
The Edge Of Autumn
Elmwood
Epode
Esthetique Du Rale
The Fair Maid Of Ribblesdale
The Fall
Figures In A Landscape
The Finality Of A Poem
Five Proper Nouns: 1. Ostra Brama
Five Proper Nouns: 2. Novgorod
Five Proper Nouns: 3. Tschernigow
Five Proper Nouns: 4. Kaunas
Five Proper Nouns: 5. Pustoshka (1941)
Five Songs In Sequence
For Ezra Pound, Old
Four Exemplary Texts: 1.
Four Exemplary Texts: 2
Four Exemplary Texts: 3
Four Exemplary Texts: 4
Four Postulates
Gin Music
A Hanging Screen
Interstate 80
A Journey; For Ted Mallory (who Died, December 1963)
The Judy Travaillo Variations
King Drive
Le Jardin De Claude Monet
Lines For Grace Slick
Lucy To The Driver
Lumen
Mandan
Materials Of June
Maude
Memorial Day
Missouri Among Rivers
Motet
Mt. Vernon Gardens, 1978
News Notes, 1970
Nights At The Bon Ton
Not That Fair Field
November Or Else: An Ode
November Requiem To Ourselves
October Triptych
Of The River Itself
On The Conditions Of Place
Ourselves
Out West
The Park Above All Others Called, Riverview
Pine Trees With Child
Pochades
Primary Exegesis
Rather Like
Reeving
Return
A Second-hand Elegy; For Douglas Dickey, Pfc., Usmc
Set/sorts: Set
Set/sorts: Sorts
Seven Pieces For Unaccompanied Voice
Shadow Puppets
Shear Face
The Sky At Ashland
Songe Vert(e)
Songs From An Institution #2
Songs From An Institution: 1
Songs From An Institution: 3
The Square: Bum's Park
A Stratagem
Such Summers
Sums
The Temper
To Myself And For August 5, 1964
Touching The Ground
Tracings
Valeeta
Variations For A Summer Evening
Variations On Stryk's Basho
Waiting There
A War Story
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

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Product Details

• Paperback: 248 pages
• Publisher: Moyer Bell and its subsidiaries (January 1, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 155921113X
• ISBN-13: 978-1559211130
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.5 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,270,548 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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