Morris, Herbert Dream Palace ISBN 13: 9780060155360

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Poems deal with the past, family life, marriage, the imagination, magic, passion, childhood, and the movies

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A dozen long dramatic monologues in the style of Robert Browning make up Morris's stunning second collectiona quantum leap above his notable 1983 debut, Peru. Rich in emotion and insight about the workings of the human soul, they build to operatic dimensions from small, suggestive premises, notably a snapshot of "My Parents on Their Honeymoon" and a family portrait of the poet, his older brother and their parents taken on the "Boardwalk" in June of 1921. "The Park Hotel, Munich, 1907" explores the psyche of Freud, who describes fainting spells brought on by a repressed homosexual attachment to Wilhelm Fliess. "Sackets Harbor, 1866" is the tale of a spinster caught between her betrothal to a sailor who has abandoned her for the sea and her forbidden love for "the boy who cuts the trees for Poppa." Their common thread is Morris's evocation of the need for every human spirit to dream: the "dream palace" that resides in each of us. Dream Palace is poignant, haunting and beautifully realized in every way. Rights: Harper & Row. January
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The 11 narratives of Dream Palace celebrate transcendent moments from a past that ignores "the border between . . . dream and life." Each poem is triggered by a catalysta snapshot of the poet's parents taken in June 1921, a photograph of workers in Westerwald in 1927. Writing in long, Faulknerian sentences, Morris authenticates his dream-visions with indelible details: a Fourth of July with "jets, plumes, pinwheels, cascades, flames heaped on flames." Especially moving is the long dramatic monologue spoken by Freud in "The Park Hotel, Munich, 1907," detailing his intimate connection with Wilhelm Fliess. Like Freud, Morris can say that in Dream Palace his aim was "to reclaim the past, or as much of it/ as I might lay hold of in one fierce grasp." Recommended for larger collections. Daniel L. Guillory, English Dept., Millikin Univ., Decatur, Ill.
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  • PublisherHarperCollins
  • Publication date1986
  • ISBN 10 0060155361
  • ISBN 13 9780060155360
  • BindingHardcover
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages87
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