Figure of a Man Being Swallowed by a Fish

图书信息

作者	Weiner, Joshua
出版社	University of Chicago Press
ISBN	9780226017150
出版时间	2013-03-20
字数	4.0万
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

At the heart of Weiner's new book is an extended poem with a bold political dimension and great intellectual ambition. It fuses the poet's point of view with Walt Whitman's to narrate a decentered time-traveling collage about Rock Creek, a tributary of the Potomac that runs through Washington, DC. For Weiner, Rock Creek is the location of myriad kinds of movement, streaming, and joining: personal enterprise and financial capital; national politics, murder, sex, and homelessness; the Civil War and collective history; music, spiritual awakening, personal memory, and pastoral vision. The questions that arise from the opening foundational poem inform the others in the collection, which range widely from the dramatic arrival of an uncanny charismatic totem that titles the volume to intimate reflections on family, illness, and dream visions. The virtues of Weiner's earlier books-discursive intelligence, formal control, an eccentric and intriguing ear, and a wide-ranging curiosity matched to variety of feeling-are all present here. But in The Figure of a Man Being Swallowed by a Fish, Weiner has discovered a new poetic idiom, one that is stripped down, rhythmically jagged, and comprehensively philosophical about human limits.

目录

Cover

Copyright

Title Page

Series Page

Epigraph

Contents

Acknowledgments

One

Rock Creek (II)

Two

“The Figure of a Man Being Swallowed by a Fish”

Florida: Schoolboy on Break

First Walk after Cancer

Things To Do While You’re Here

Winter Commute

The Winter’s Tale

Rock Creek

Hikmet: Çankiri Prison, 1938

Three

Cyclops

Notes