A Drink at the Mirage (Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets, 82) - Hardcover

Rosen, Michael J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0691066272 ISBN 13: 9780691066271

Publisher: Princeton University Press, 1985

Synopsis

"Between the discovery that there is a design which only his poetry enables him to find as he confronts the world and the discovery that such a design is a snare, merely a means of keeping him from further discernment, Michael Rosen is wedged, is productively pinioned, [ should say, for it is just this pressure--of meaning discerned on one hand and of meaning distrusted on the other--which makes the tension of these poems, a new version of the old wars between mind and body, memory and hope, self and surround. How tender and inclusive are Rosen's preoccupations, and how disabused his conclusions! One reads these playful, stricken poems with wonder--how will such ventures conclude, or even persist? What will happen next? Here is a poet who persuades us, as the saying goes, to stay tuned."--Richard Howard

Originally published in 1985.

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About this title

About the Author:

The editor of More Mirth of a Nation: The Best Contemporary Humor, Michael J. Rosen has been called the unofficial organizer of the National Humor Writer's Union, a pretty good idea for an organization that could offer all kinds of benefits to its struggling members (currently numbering more than 300 who have never been published in The New Yorker or aired on NPR). He has been called other things as well, like in third grade, and then in seventh grade especially, by certain older kids known as "hoods", who made his life miserable, specifically during gym class, lunch period and after school. Later, much later, the Washington Post called him a "fidosopher" because of his extensive publications on dogs, dog training, and dog-besotted people. The New York Times called him an example of creative philanthropy in their special "Giving" section for persuading "writers, artists, photographers and illustrators to contribute their time and talents to books" that benefit Share Our Strength's anti-hunger efforts and animal-welfare causes. As an author of a couple dozen books for children, he's been called. . . okay, enough with the calling business. For nearly twenty years, he served as literary director at the Thurber House, a cultural center in the restored home of James Thurber. Garrison Keillor, bless his heart, called it (sorry) "the capital of American humor". While there, Rosen helped to create The Thurber Prize for American Humor, a national book award for humor writing, and edited four anthologies of Thurber's previously unpublished and uncollected work, most recently The Dog Department: James Thurber on Hounds, Scotties and Talking Poodles, happily published by HarperCollins as well. In his capacity as editor for this biennial, Rosen reads manuscripts year round, beseeching and beleaguering the nation's most renowned and well-published authors, and fending off the rants and screeds from folks who've discovered the ease of self-publishing on the web. Last summer, Rosen edited a lovely book, 101 Damnations: The Humorists' Tour of Personal Hells; while some critics (all right, one rather outspoken friend) considered this a book of complaints, Rosen has argued that humor, like voting and picketing and returning an appliance that "worked" all of four months before requiring a repair that costs twice the purchase price, humor is about the desire for change. It's responding to the way things are compared to the way

Review:

The Age When Parents Don't Need Reasons
Another Figurescape
Artist's Proof
At Brunch We Entertain The Notion Of The Perfect Place To
Blind Minotaur Guided By A Little Girl In The Night
Calling Into Question
Circling Columbus
The Cutting Of Nijinsky's Feet
December, The Botanical Gardens
Driving Past Morocco, Indiana
A Family Tree
The Fire Pond
Freeway Flowers
Hidden Pictures
Ice Sculptures
In Central Park
In Exchange For Wood
Next
Notes Through The Winter
November
November, Again
Our Places At The Table
Outside A Milton Avery Exhibit
Poney Penning Day
Precipitation
Primitive Examples
Roadside Statuary
The Same River Twice
Spectacles: A Late Spring
Story Problem
Strand
Total Eclipse
Vivarium
What's Wrong With This Picture
The Woman In Ice
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

About this edition

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0691066272
• ISBN 13: 9780691066271
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 78