Interrogation Palace New and Selected Poems 1982-2004

Name: Interrogation Palace New and Selected Poems 1982-2004
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ISBN: 9780822959175

ISBN-10: 0822959178

ISBN-13: 9780822959175

Edition: 2006

Authors: David Wojahn

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Interrogation Palaceis a career-spanning selection of work from an important American poet, drawing upon each of David Wojahnrsquo;s six previous collections and a substantial gathering of new work. Moving fluently from personal history to public history, and from high culture to popular culture, Wojahnrsquo;s searching and restless poetry has been considerably acclaimed, both for the candor of its testimony and the authority of its formal invention. He is above all an elegiac poet, tender and ferocious by turns, whether mourning the loss of family and loved ones or the hopes and aspirations of the baby-boomer era. Interrogation Palace confirms David Wojahnrsquo;s status as one of the most…

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List price: $24.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Publication date: 1/5/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 216
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.814
Language: English




For the Poltergeists: New Poems


Board Book & the Costume of a Whooping Crane


Sawdust


For the Poltergeists


Radnoti in a Trench Coat


Theremin: Solo & Command Performance


Interrogation Palace


Scrabble with Matthews


Dithyramb and Lamentation


Homage to Blind Willie Johnson



From Icehouse Lights, 1982


Distance


Glaucoma


The Precincts of Moonlight


Weldon Kees in Mexico, 1965


Cold Glow: Icehouses



From Glassworks, 1987


"Satin Doll"


Pentecost


Dates, for Example



From Mystery Train, 1990


From "Mystery Train (A Sequence)"


Posthumous Life


Armageddon: Private Gabriel Calvin Wojahn, 1900-18


The Resurrection of the Dead, Port Glasgow, 1950



From Late Empire, 1994


Late Empire


Homage to Ryszard Kapuscinski


White Lanterns


Photo of My Father in a Snowbound Train


Tomis


The First Six Seals



From The Falling Hour, 1997


Rajah in Babylon


Excavation Photo


After Wittgenstein


The Shades


God of Journeys and Secret Tidings


Stammer


Tractate for Doctor Tourette


Ghost Supper


Dirge and Descent


Oracle


Gallery IX: A Carved Bone Ring of Cormorants


Before the Words



From Spirit Cabinet, 2002


The Art of Poetry


Poison, 1959


And the Unclean Spirits Went Out of the Man, and Entered into Swine


Stalin's Library Card


The Ravenswood


After Propertius


Days of 1994


Spirit Cabinet


From "Crayola: A Sequence"


Can't You Spare Me Over?


Written on the Due Date of a Son Never Born


Triclinium: Couple Bending to a Burning Photo


Kill Born, Weed Smoke, Chk Mark, Onchola Senn


Notes


Acknowledgments