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Zusatztext "Through sheer persistence I'll find a book in which almost every poem makes me fall down, so dizzied am I by the world spinning and resolving itself in new ways. Such is the experience I had with Kathleen Graber's The Eternal City . . . . The book is barely able to contain these thought-full poems that spool outward into the world around the poet, both the world of the world and the world of the mind, and curl back on themselves." ---Marilyn McCabe, ConnotationPress.com Informationen zum Autor Kathleen Graber teaches in the Creative Writing Program at Virginia Commonwealth University. She is the author of The River Twice (Princeton) and Correspondence and her poems have appeared in the New Yorker and the American Poetry Review , among other publications. Klappentext Finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle AwardWith 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 award-winning second collection of poetry 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. Zusammenfassung Finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award 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 award-winning second collection of poetry 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. 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 ...
