Anatomy of Melancholy and Other Poems

Name: Anatomy of Melancholy and Other Poems
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ISBN: 9780143123071

ISBN-10: 0143123076

ISBN-13: 9780143123071

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Authors: Robert Wrigley

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A powerful new collection from an award-winning poet Robert Wrigley has become one of his generation's most accomplished poets, renowned for his irony, power, and lucid style and for his ability to fuse narrative and lyrical impulses. Like its namesake—Robert Burton's seventeenth-century examination of human thoughts and emotions—Wrigley's new collection means to examine our world through the lens of melancholia. From imagined war memorials to insomniac chickens; from Descartes' lost daughter to a dreaming tree; from King Kong to Rush Limbaugh; and from Anna Karenina to a man named Lucy Doolin (short for Lucifer), these are poems that elegize and celebrate that most beautiful, exasperating,…

Book details

List price: $20.00
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 3/26/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 128
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.35" tall
Weight: 0.352
Language: English




In the Whorl of the Ear of One


Triage


Bovinity


Cenotaph


Friendly Fire


Now Here


Seen from the Porch, a Bear by the House


First Person


Kong


Carhops, with Larkin


Earthquake Light


Timex



Possibles


Descartes


Dada Doodads


For I Will Consider My Cat Lenore


Soundings


Nightingale Capability


Careers


Legend


Mercury


The History of Gods


Babel


Spring Is Here



Dark Blue Mouth


Goldfinches


Blackjack


Delicious


Sweet Magnet


Ode to My Boots


On a Series of Four Photographs


Dream of the Tree


Catechism


Rush


"American Archangel"


The Art of Excavation



Pinioned Heart in the Heat of It


Socialists


In His Sadness


Salvage


"Ain't No Use"


Iris Nevis


Stop and Listen


Calendar


The Scholar


Anna Karenina


Anatomy of Melancholy


To Autumn


Notes


Acknowledgments