Synopses & Reviews
The poems in Bat Ode speak to the way we live today and how it feels to occupy such a mongrel, fast-changing, postmodern world. Yet rather than breaking with the linguistic or poetic past, these poems seem to renew and reinvigorate it with a fresh vision. Jeredith Merrin's sense of humor, formal poise, enormous heart, and disarming wit, situate her as one of our most convincing social poets.
About the Author
Jeredith Merrin is a professor of English at The Ohio State University. She is the author of An Enabling Humility: Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, and the Uses of Tradition. Her first book of poetry, Shift, was published by the University of Chicago Press.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
I
Family Reunion
Zoo Bus
Long Distance
Day Trip
Dear Edward Lear I Love Your
An American Classic
II
Tulpenwoede
Depression
Film Noir
Impediments
Hotel Breakfast with an Old Classmate
Southern CA
Ugetsu
From a Summer Porch
III
Bat Ode
Downtown Diner
At the College Yesterday
Memo
New Apartment
The Attic
Sweeping
Norway Maple, Cut Down