Sleepwalking with Orpheus /
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| Author / Creator: | Watson, Craig, 1950- |
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| Imprint: | Exeter : Shearsman Books, 2011. |
| Description: | 95 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8449019 |
| Summary: | Poetry. Haunted by Cocteau's version of the Orpheus myth since 1968, Craig Watson collected a palimpsest of renderings, fragments, and images from the Orphic tradition for the next 40 years. In 2008, he returned to these materials in the wake of a near fatal stroke. The result is SLEEPWALKING WITH ORPHEUS, a constellation of voices that recount the legendary singer's continuous journey through the realms that compose a life. In "Last Man Standing," Watson's post-apocalyptic poem in SECRET HISTORIES, the protagonist asserts: "I'm not dead yet." SLEEPWALKING WITH ORPHEUS takes up that proposition, cannily altering its terms of address to reflect what Watson calls "the interrogative imperative." |
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| Item Description: | Poems. |
| Physical Description: | 95 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781848611382 1848611382 |
