Blue Guide

Name: Blue Guide
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ISBN: 9780226951355

ISBN-10: 0226951359

ISBN-13: 9780226951355

Edition: 2006

Authors: Stephen Yenser

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Inspired by the miraculously mercurial potential of words, Stephen Yenser takes readers on a heady trip through a world full of promise yet compromised by human weakness. Set in sunny southern California and Greece, the poems of "Blue Guide "cast the shadow of mortality, and the tones are elegiac. This combination of the deadly serious and the exuberant is natural, Yenser notes; after all, "work "and "orgy" share the same etymological root, as do "travail "and "travel", "pledge" and "play". Using various poetic modes, Yenser offers here a quatrain written to name a painting by Dorothea Tanning; a sequence of poems for his daughter; an excursive poem at once about Los Angeles and Baghdad…

Book details

List price: $16.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 4/1/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 96
Size: 0.71" wide x 0.85" long x 0.03" tall
Weight: 0.374
Language: English

Stephen Yenser is Professor of English, University of California, Los Angeles.



Acknowledgments





Loveknot (Flagrantis speculum veneris)


MRI: A Trance


Spirare: Evening at Point Dume


Paradise Cove


Helen's Zen


"Harmonie du Soir"


Tidepools: La Jolla





Sfakian Variations





Salle Archaique: An Afterbeat


Ghazal: Of Names


Los Angeles Fractals





Valedictions


Charles Gullans (1929-1993)


Joseph Riddel (1931-1992)


Doris Curran (1932-2000)


Lorna Roberts (1942-2001)


Robert Lowell (1917-1977)


To Fall


Kerouacky


Across the Bar


Jumbo's Clown Room


Polo Lounge


Lunaria


Shutters


Numbers


Variations on Ovid





Inkles, Shreds & Scales





Blue Guide