Between the Chains

Name: Between the Chains
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ISBN: 9780226096179

ISBN-10: 0226096173

ISBN-13: 9780226096179

Edition: 1991

Authors: Turner Cassity

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"With my eyes closed, I might have guessed a collaboration between William Empson and Noel Coward," J. D. McClatchy has said of Turner Cassity's poems. Cassity's new collection turns an icy needle-spray on topics as diverse as a Polynesian firedance, Johannes Brahms, and the Banque de l'Indo-Chine. Breaking a pact with himself, Cassity has written two poems about the South, which, the poet claims, are unlikely "to cause professional Southerners anything except discomfort." "Turner Cassity's excellent work is like no one else's. It is funny, at times perverse, and wickedly serious. In this present collection, such poems as 'When in Doubt, Remain in Doubt,' 'Acid Rain on Sherwood Forest,'…

Book details

List price: $26.00
Copyright year: 1991
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 6/18/1991
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 91
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.40" tall
Weight: 0.374
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Persistence of Memory Hedy


Lamarr and a Chocolate Bar


Prometheus in Polynesia


When in Doubt Remain in Doubt Acid Rain on


Sherwood Forest Bank


Notes Correction and Amplification


How Jazz Came up the Elbe Preservation


News Quasimodo of the Singing Tower


Sketch for an Edda Ruth Keelikolani On Several


Photographs of Nikola


Tesla Inducted Berlin-to-Baghdad


Immurings Power Failure


Between the Chains R.U.R. or Are You Aren't?


Parlor Song The Incorruptible Betsy Ross


Astronaut Some People Have No Small


Talk Lazy Afternoon Campion in Uniform For the Scrapbook of Mrs


Charles Black Mainstreaming


Atlantis of the Conchs I-V Fin de Siegrave;cle Publicans and Sinners


Franchises Retouching Walker Evans Texarkana


Knowledge Is Power Against


Activism Arithmetic Equals Numerology


Mathematics Is Never Any Help Other Directed


Method An Attempt to Explain Anorexia


Nervosa to Lillian Russell One of the Boys


Links Invitations Open Wounds


Laying It on the Line Random


Notes