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Author / Creator:Bachmann, Beth.
Imprint:Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, ©2009.
©2009
Description:1 online resource (xi, 65 pages)
Language:English
Series:Pitt poetry series
Pitt poetry series.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11180796
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ISBN:9780822990666
0822990660
9780822960409
0822960400
Notes:"Winner of the 2008 Donald Hall Prize in poetry"--Cover.
English.
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Summary:Temper is at once violent and controlled, unflinching and unforgiving in temperament. The poems are mercilessly recursive, placing pressure on the lyric as a mode of both the elegiac and the ecstatic. The result is an enforced silence, urgent with grief.
Other form:Print version: Bachmann, Beth. Temper. Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, ©2009
Table of Contents:
  • Contents
  • Temper
  • I
  • Paternoster
  • First Mystery Of My Sister
  • After The Telling
  • Last Call
  • Quotes From The Papers
  • Lineup
  • First Mystery Of My Father
  • Defense Language
  • Second Mystery Of My Father
  • Sorrowful Mystery
  • Setting
  • Plot
  • Second Mystery Of My Sister
  • Rapt
  • Woodpile
  • Talk Show
  • Answering Machine
  • Joyous Mystery
  • Heaven
  • II
  • A New Way Of Thinking About Space
  • Hell
  • Hunger
  • Nesting
  • Erato
  • Signal Mirror
  • Colorization
  • Mystery Beneath A Handprint Of Light
  • PanicCounting
  • Weather
  • Deception
  • Mystery Of The Noise The Air Makes When Milled
  • Mimicry
  • Answer To The Mystery Of My Blank Stare
  • III
  • Luminous Mystery
  • Gene Mapping
  • Tracking
  • Sirens
  • Supple
  • Spit
  • Concealment
  • Evasion
  • Betrayal
  • Radio
  • Glorious Mystery
  • Finishing Moves
  • Mystery Ending With A Girl In A Field
  • Cold Logic
  • Elegy
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments