Lilac Cigarette in a Wish Cathedral: Poems (The James Dickey Contemporary Poetry Series) - Softcover

Magowan, Robin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 157003270X ISBN 13: 9781570032707

Publisher: University of South Carolina Press, 1998

Synopsis

Robin Magowan's poems in Lilac Cigarette in a Wish Cathedral represent a poetry of heightened awarenesses and high-edge experiences caught on the run. Seized from a miniaturist's perspective, the subjects are privileged moments: a child mat-riding on a Red Flag day; birds in a tropical forest; Greek sailors dancing; a trek in the Himalayas; drug overdoses during an affair with a terrorist dragon lady; personal experiences that combine into an oeuvre and a life. Magowan's aim is to take the reader inside, as far as possible, using an instinctive notation to register his fascination with sensation, movement, and color.

About this title

About the Author

Robin Magowan taught at the University of Washington and the University of California at Berkeley.

Review

Before A Second Hysterectomy
Birds In A Forest Swaying: 1. Kingfisher
Birds In A Forest Swaying: 2. Redwing Blackbird Orchestra Afire
Birds In A Forest Swaying: 3. Blue-crowned Motmot
Birds In A Forest Swaying: 4. After Catullus
Birds In A Forest Swaying: 5. Hummingbird Lech
Birds In A Forest Swaying: 6. Riverside Wren
Birds In A Forest Swaying: 7. Rain
Birds In A Forest Swaying: 8. Nightingale Wren
Birth
Bonnard
By A Disused Railroad Track
Consolations Of Bourbon
Crow From A Fogged Rampart
Cythera
Death Valley
Despair
Drops
Falling Asleep
Hopscotch
Icarus
In Susan's Room
Intruder In The Abyss
Last Evening
Lines Written Astride An Uprooted Maple
Looking For Binoculars
Mat-riding
Miniature
Minimal Dreams
Moraine
Mosaic From The Floor Of The Design
Noon Taverna
O
On Project Troubadour's Cameroon Aids Van
One-way-out Ticket
Orfeo
Pagoda
Paros
Pastoral
Pavan In A Myopic Key
A Pharaonic Glass Case
Portrait Of The Painter Kaldis
Sailor At Perema
Seven, Without Binoculars
Sherpa Tent
Spoke Song
Tapestry
Tesi Lapcha Pass
Tsamiko
Whirls Of A Rapid
Wind
Window
Zembeikiko
-- Table of Poems from Poem FinderŪ

About this edition

• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 157003270X
• ISBN 13: 9781570032707
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 69