Clayfeld Holds On

图书信息

作者	Pack, Robert
出版社	University of Chicago Press
ISBN	9780226303567
出版时间	2015-10-16
字数	10.0万
分类	University of Chicago Press,进口书,外文原版书,文学,自传,回忆录

读书简介

from "e;Clayfeld's Farewell Epistle to Bob Pack"e; Beneath this mellow harvest moon,I can still picture you-a boy contentjust fishing with his father from a ledgeabove a foaming stream. The flailing troutyou caught is packed in gleaming ice;the pink stripe all along its sideis smeared across black shiny dotsthat seem to shine with their own light.I'm sure that you can picture mewith equal vividness, and though we're notidentical, there is a sensein which I am inventing youas much as you're inventing me.?In Clayfeld Holds On, Robert Pack offers his readers a comprehensive portrait of his longtime protagonist Clayfeld, who is also Pack's doppelgnger, his alternate self, enacting both the life that the poet has lived and the life he might have lived, given his proclivities and appetites. Poet and protagonist, taken together, are self and consciousness of self, the historical self and the embellished story of that literal self.Written with a masterly ear for rhythm, and interweaving narrative and lyrical passages, the poems recount Clayfeld's formative memories while exploring concepts such as loyalty, generosity, commitment, as well as cosmic phenomena such as the big bang theory and black holes. Through all of this, Pack attempts to find purpose and meaning in an indifferent universe, and to explore the labyrinth of his own proliferating identity.

目录

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Bob Pack’s lnvocation to Clayfeld

Clayfeld’s Encounter by the Sea

Clayfeld Encompasses a Paradox

Clayfeld Beholds a Miracle

Clayfeld Attends a Seder

Clayfeld Admonishes the Bard

Clayfeld Defines Sublimity

Clayfeld Goes Birding

A Blue Heron Appears to Clayfeld

Clayfeld’s Kidney

Clayfeld Observes a Herd of Elk

Clayfeld Organizes His Jokes

Confronting Clayfeld

Clayfeld among the Fireflies

Clayfeld Takes Flight

Clayfeld Listens to the Aspens

Paean for a Turtle

Clayfeld Encircled

Clayfeld Unresolved

Clayfeld’s Vampire Fantasy

Clayfeld on Jury Duty

Clayfeld Throws His Hat into the Ring

Clayfeld’s Reversal

Clayfeld Reading by the Fire

Clayfeld Grieves for Annie

Clayfeld’s Inheritance

Clayfeld Addresses His Father

Drifting and Gliding

Clayfeld’s Interpretation

Clayfeld Thinks about Women

Clayfeld’s Pride

Clayfeld Bedeviled

Clayfeld’s “Cogito”

Clayfeld’s Inspiration

Clayfeld Contends with Entropy

Star-Crossed Clayfeld

Clayfeld in the Rain

Clayfeld’s Injury

Humming in the Air

Clayfeld Embellishes a Willow Tree

Clayfeld’s Farewell Epistle to Bob Pack

Epilogue: Swan River in October

Epilogue: Abundance