Quiet Lives (Vox Humana) - Hardcover

Cope, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0896030482 ISBN 13: 9780896030480

Publisher: Humana, 1983

Synopsis

I have been much absorbed in David Cope's poetry as necessary continuation of tradition of lucid grounded sane objectivism in poetry following the visually solid practice of Charles Reznikoff & William Carlos Williams. Though the notions of 'objectivism' were common for many decades among U. S. poets, there is not a great body of direct-sighted "close to the nose" examples of poems that hit a certain ideal objectivist mark-"No ideas but in things" consisting of "minute particulars" in which "the natural object is always the adequate symbol", works of language wherein "the mind is clamped down on objects", and where these "Things are symbols of themselves. " The poets I named above specialized in this refined experiment, and Pound touched on the subject as did Zukofsky and Bunting, and lesser but inter­ esting figures such as Marsden Hartley in his little known poetry , and more romantic writers such as D. H. Lawrence. In this area of phanopoeiac "focus," the sketching of particulars by which a motif is recognizably significant, David Cope has made, by the beginning of his third decade, the largest body of such work that I know of among poets of his own generation. Allen Ginsberg Table of Contents Foreword, Allen Ginsberg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v THE STARS The Line-up. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . Empty Street . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 The River. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Down on the Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 The Storm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 American Dream. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 . . . . . . . . . . Baseball. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . Crash. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 . Lunch Hour. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Winter Camp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A Circle of Lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 . . . . . . . . . . GO Labor Day . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 . . . . . . . . . . . Peace. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Abandoned Hotel
American Dream
At The Rest Home
Baseball
The Beating
Birth
Bob
Burning Babies
Carpenters
Ceta Office
Chinese Calligraphy
A Circle Of Lights
Circus Performers
Coffee
Coquina Beach
Crash
Daffodils
Down On The Farm
Empty Street
The End
End Of The Shift
Evening & Morning
February Snow, Dreams Of New York
The Field
The First Death
Further News From Nicaragua
Grand Haven
The Hard Truth
Jackson
Labor Day
The Landlady
The Life Of The Party
The Lineup
Lunch Hour
March Wind
May
A Million Mute Corpses Speak
The Odor Of Death
On An Iron Grate At Sunset
Paint Work
Peace
The Plumber
A Quiet Life
A Reduction In Rent
Rexroth Gone
The River
The Rose
The Shotgun
The Silent Afternoon
Six Eclogues
Slagboom Tool & Die
Steve
The Storm
Strafing In El Salvador
A Suite For Antler
Sweeping
Take-over In Poland
Tears
Thanks
Turning
Two
Two Doors Down From The Limelight
A View From The Road
The Waiting Room
Walking
The Welfare Office
What's Yours From Heaven
Winter Camp
The Workman
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Edition details

• Publisher: Humana
• Publication date: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0896030482
• ISBN 13: 9780896030480
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 96