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Contradance (Phoenix Poets)by John Peck
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:In a country where much of the prominent poetry seeks to affirm the fleeting present and its changing values, John Peck’s poetry comes as an important, if unlikely, gift. Peck’s verse deals the cards of the fragmentary, ideogramic, juxtapositional, and elliptical through the deck of normally discursive syntax. Echoing late high Modernism, Peck’s work, in the words of novelist Joseph McElroy, is “a way of seeing things,” confident “in the packed vividness of the referential.” Avoiding the narrow identity- or group-specific viewpoint of some of his contemporaries, Peck invites us to enter the larger humanscape and unearth with him unnoticed connections to our shared past and to one another. In Contradance, his ninth collection, Peck’s passion for inquiry and historical reflection has never been stronger or more beautifully embodied. About the AuthorJohn Peck is a freelance editor and translator and a practicing Jungian analyst. He is the author of eight books of poems, most recently of Red Strawberry Leaf: Selected Poems, 1994–2001, published in the Phoenix Poets series by the University of Chicago Press, and a cotranslator of C. G. Jung’s The Red Book. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Centuries Dawn Renga Canticle of the Winepress Flowers and Birds of the Four Seasons . . . Society of Friends Giovanni, would you . . . To the One Who Stole My Box of Tools Club W. Avedon in his last days . . . New York Sonnets The Battle of Anghiari To Melville with Pry-Bar Aquarius Green, Yellow, Red I Hear You Calling Philosophia, East 65th Street A Bridge Beneath Inwood Hill The Project Children's Zoo Vitrine The Web in Central Park Anfiteatro Flaviano The Chrysler Building, Met Life, Trump Tower Liber Studiorum Hammonassett, Connecticut A Veteran Duchess Book of Serenity Fire Papyrus Fragment Egerton 2 1618 From the Factory in Wolfsburg Incomings Four Rivers and the Pennsy Yards Contradance Out of strife, peace: . . . Venice's last . . . Across and through— . . . R. M. R. Book of the Dead? We Have No Book of the Dead Violin Notes What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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