Decreation: Poetry, Essays, OperaKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2006 M10 10 - 272 pages "One of the most interesting gatherings of material that any poet has published within living memory." --The Economist |
Contents
SLEEPCHAINS | |
SUNDAY | |
LINES | |
OUR FORTUNE | |
NO PORT NOW | |
WOULD BE HER 50TH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY TODAY | |
SOME AFTERNOONS SHE DOES NOT PICK UP THE PHONE | |
THAT STRENGTH | |
STANZAS SEXES SEDUCTIONS | |
SPRING BREAKSwallow Song | |
GUILLERMOS SIGH SYMPHONY | |
BLENDED TEXT | |
SWIMMING IN CIRCLES IN COPENHAGEN | |
GNOSTICISMS | |
GNOSTICISM I | |
GNOSTICISM II | |
METHINKS THE POOR TOWN HAS BEEN TROUBLED TOO LONG | |
DESPITE HER PAIN AN OTHER DAY | |
NOTHING FOR IT | |
HER BECKETT | |
BECKETTS THEORY OF TRAGEDY | |
BECKETTS THEORY OF COMEDY | |
EVERY EXIT IS AN ENTRANCEA Praise of Sleep | |
Every Exit Is an Entrance | |
ODE TO SLEEP | |
FOAMEssay with RhapsodyOn the Sublime in Longinus and Antonioni | |
THE DAY ANTONIONI CAME TO THE ASYLUMRhapsody | |
SUBLIMES | |
LONGINUS DREAM OF ANTONIONI | |
AND REASON REMAINS UNDAUNTED | |
LOde to Monica Vitti | |
ODE TO THE SUBLIME BY MONICA VITTI | |
MIA MOGLIE LONGINUS RED DESERT | |
OUT WARDLY HIS LIFE RAN SMOOTHLY | |
KANTS QUESTION ABOUT MONICA VITTI | |
GNOSTICISM III | |
GNOSTICISM IV | |
GNOSTICISM V | |
GNOSTICISM VI | |
SEATED FIGUREWITH RED ANGLE 1988BY BETTY GOODWIN | |
SEATED FIGURE WITH RED ANGLE 1988BY BETTY GOODWIN | |
LOTS OF GUNSAn Oratorio for Five Voices 1 | |
QUAD | |
HA SCREENPLAY | |
THE COLOUR OF ECLIPSE | |
DECREATIONHOW WOMEN LIKE SAPPHOMARGUERITE PORETE AND SIMONE WEILTELL GOD | |
DECREATIONAn Opera in Three Parts | |
PART ONELovesForgery | |
PART TWOHer Mirror of Simple Souls | |
PART THREEFight Cherries | |
LONGING A DOCUMENTARY | |
permissions Acknowledgments | |
illustration credits | |