Eternity & oranges /

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Author / Creator:	Bakken, Christopher, 1967- author.
Imprint:	Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2016] ©2016
Description:	1 online resource (1 PDF (viii, 75 pages))
Language:	English
Series:	Pitt poetry series Pitt poetry series.
Subject:	American poetry -- 21st century. American poetry. Electronic books. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11253653

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ISBN:	9780822981282 0822981289 9780822964049 082296404X
Notes:	Poems. Print version record.
Summary:	"We'd not slept in days, or else we were/ still sleeping--who could tell?" someone asks in the opening poem of Eternity & Oranges. The voices we encounter in this book speak on the verge of disappearance, from places marked by disintegration and terror. Christopher Bakken's poems are acts of conjuring. They move from the real political landscapes of Greece, Italy, and Romania, into more surreal spaces where history comes alive and the summoned dead speak. In the formally diverse long poem, "Kouros/Kore," but also in this book's terse and harrowing dream songs, Bakken writes with devastating force, at every turn "Guilty of the crime of praise" while "begging for an antidote to beauty."
Other form:	Print version: 082296404X 9780822964049

Table of Contents:

Intro; Contents; Aubade; Interior with a Closed Notebook; Impressions of a Drowning Man; Thyrsus; Report from the Office of Optical Illusions; Denial; Translation; Resistance; 17.ix.07; Sentence; Some Things along Strada C.A. Rosetti; Confession; Myth; Possession, Macedonia; Appeal; Last Station of No One's Cross; Still Life; Amphitheater; Exterior with Knife and Net; Kouros/Kore; Altar; Elegy; A Poem Not Written by Yannis Ritsos on the Day of My Birth; Squid Fishing; The Skyros Papers; Troppo Mare; Stake; Recessional; Defiance; Interior with a Bowl of Matches; Notes; Acknowledgments.

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