Borrowed Love Poems

Name: Borrowed Love Poems
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ISBN: 9780142000519

ISBN-10: 0142000515

ISBN-13: 9780142000519

Edition: 2002

Authors: John Yau

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If the "I" cannot be representative, what or who can it represent? In John Yau's new collection, Borrowed Love Poems, the reader encounters artists (Hiroshige and Eva Hesse), poets (Marina Tsvetayeva and Georg Trakl), actors (Boris Karloff and Peter Lorre), and memorable figures (a retired wrestler and a private eye named Genghis Chan). Each becomes a spectral, sonorous presence inhabiting the polymorphic body of the page, a shadow of a shadow lit from within. Yau's poems are dazzling explorations of the multiple, shifting sands of identity, of the fictional, fake, factual, and autobiographical selves that pass like ghosts through the empty space known as "I." Able to seamlessly merge a…

Book details

List price: $17.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Publication date: 3/26/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 160
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English

Critically acclaimed poet and critic John Yau is the author of numerous publications in the fine arts, including The United States of Jasper Johns (1997), Ed Moses: A Retrospective (1996), Morris Graves: Flower Paintings (1994), and In the Realm of Appearances: The Art of Andy Warhol (1993). Yau works and resides in New York City.



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Russian Letter


Russian Letter (2)


Russian Letter (3)


Russian Letter (4)


Russian Letter (5)


Russian Letter (6)


830 Fireplace Road


830 Fireplace Road (2)


Bowery Studio


Studio Dream


Broadcast from 791 Broadway


Three Lullabies for Trakl


Self-Portrait with Max Beckmann


Second Self-Portrait with Max Beckmann


Third Self-Portrait with Max Beckmann





Movies as a Form of Reincarnation: Boris Karloff Remembers Being Chinese on More Than One Occasion


Genghis Chan: Private Eye XXIX


Genghis Chan: Private Eye XXX


Peter Lorre Reminisces About Being a Sidekick


Boris Karloff in The Mummy Meets Dr. Fu Manchu


After My Chronology by Peter Lorre


I Was a Poet in the House of Frankenstein


Film Adaptations of Five of America's Most Beloved Poems


Peter Lorre Records His Favorite Walt Whitman Poem for Posterity


Peter Lorre Speaks to the Spirit of Edgar Allan Poe During a Seance





Things I Should Tell You Before It's Too Late


Didn't They Like You as Much as They Like Themselves?


Retired Wrestler


Fourth Metabolic Isthmus Sestina


Fifth Metabolic Isthmus Sestina


Infidel's Romance


Written in the Year of the Parrot


Domestic Bliss


Emission Control


The Secret Life of a Statuette


One Hundred Views of the Outskirts of Manhattan


One Hundred Views of the Port of Baltimore


Anonymous Self-Portrait with Wounded Chickadee


Autobiography in Pink and Blue


Autobiography in Red and Yellow



Vowel sonatas


The late tale


Another late tale


Storied fibs piled high


Oval of oxidized potatoes


Muddy putti under impecunious sun


Ninety-nine yaupon rosary cycle





Borrowed Love Poems


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