The Eternal City

Poems
Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-0-691-14610-2
Verlag: Princeton University Press

Buch, Englisch, 96 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 152 g

Reihe: Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets

Chosen by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon to relaunch the prestigious Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets under his editorship, The Eternal City revives Princeton's tradition of publishing some of today's best poetry. With an epigraph from Freud comparing the mind to a landscape in which all that ever was still persists, The Eternal City offers eloquent testimony to the struggle to make sense of the present through conversation with the past. Questioning what it means to possess and to be possessed by objects and technologies, Kathleen Graber's collection brings together the elevated and the quotidian to make neighbors of Marcus Aurelius, Klaus Kinski, Walter Benjamin, and Johnny Depp. Like Aeneas, who escapes Troy carrying his father on his back, the speaker of these intellectually and emotionally ambitious poems juggles the weight of private and public history as she is transformed from settled resident to pilgrim.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Graber, Kathleen

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturkritik: Hermeneutik und Interpretation
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Tolle! Lege! 1

The Magic Kingdom 5

Dead Man 7

Florum Principi 10

The Drunkenness of Noah 14

Fitzcarraldo 16

The Third Day 18

The Heresies 20

UnChien Andalou 22

The Synthetic A Priori 25

The Eternal City 31

Book One 32

Book Two 33

Book Three 34

Book Four 35

Book Five 36

Book Six 37

Book Seven 38

Book Eight 39

Book Nine 40

Book Ten 41

Book Eleven 42

Book Twelve 43

Another Poem about Trains 47

What I Meant to Say 51

Some Great Desire 52

Three Poems for Walter Benjamin 54

Loggia 54

The Telephone 57

The Cabinet 59

No Lightsome Thing 62

Angels Unawares 64

Letter from Cornwall: To Stephen Dunn 68

Letter from Gozo: To Gerald Stern 71

The Festival at Nikko 74

Acknowledgments 75

Notes 77

Über Autor(innen)

Graber, Kathleen
Kathleen Graber teaches in the Creative Writing Program at Virginia Commonwealth University. Her poems have appeared in the "New Yorker" and the "American Poetry Review", among other publications, and her first collection, "Correspondence", was published in 2006.