Jeff Dolven

Speculative Music

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Parables, allegories, jokes, riddles, and a full librettoJeff Dolven’s debut collection gives us accessible lyrics and a multitude of pleasures.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sarabande Books
• Seitenzahl: 64
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 5mm
• Gewicht: 91g
• ISBN-13: 9781936747580
• ISBN-10: 1936747588
• Artikelnr.: 36626580

Autorenporträt

Jeff Dolven grew up in Massachusetts and studied at Yale and Oxford. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Times Literary Supplement, The Yale Review, and elsewhere. Speculative Music is his first collection. He teaches poetry and poetics, especially of the English Renaissance, at Princeton University, and is an editor at large at Cabinet magazine. He lives in Brooklyn.

Inhaltsangabe

How Do You Do
Folding Star
Frigidaire
The Whale-Road
This Is a City of Bridges
A Brief Life of Hermogenes
Morning Czar and Evening Tsar
Cantaloupe
You've Been Dry
Faith and Hope
Rituals
Horse Lessons
My Puppets
Peach Bone
The Labor Theory of Value
Shame School
The Force of Precedent
Quarter
How the Fire Feels
Alcibiades' Waltz
The Dressing Room
Strawberries and Cream
After Work
Sometimes I Smile
Relax, Relax
The Invention
Splinter
Humming Bird
Singing to Yourself
Here's the Thing
Humilitas
I Taught Myself
Appendix
Exile
Blazon
Dichten = Condensure
Someone Left the Bed Ajar
It's Raining
Symmetry
Snow Apple