Susan Gubernat

Zoo at Night (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry, Susan Gubernat's The Zoo at Night reflects with subtle craft on the dark side of love, death, the family romance, carnality, and lofty aspirations. She thinks of her poems as "night thoughts" resembling nocturnes, in which "a bit of light leaks in." Both experimental and classic, Gubernat's poems combine formal and free verse elements. A (mostly) unrhymed sonnet sequence seeks to recall the world of a pre-digital childhood when physical objects-tactile, mechanical-took on totemic import and magical significance. Other poems echo the Rilkean principle that poetry can be empathetic by looking outward at the "thingness" of the world. In these works of love and longing, Gubernat enters through the doors of craft and exits with feeling.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781496202772
• Artikelnr.: 55972199

Autorenporträt

Susan Gubernat is a professor of English at California State University, East Bay. She is the author of Flesh, winner of the Marianne Moore Poetry Prize, and the chapbook Analog House. An opera librettist, her major work, Korczak’s Orphans, in collaboration with composer Adam Silverman, has been performed in a number of venues. She lives in Oakland, California.  

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
I
Etruscans
Wedding Cookies
The Right Hand of Goltzius
I Was in Gym Class When Cronkite Said They’d Shot Him
Sharing a Birthday with Mata Hari
Atlantic City
Smart Enough
The Roosevelt
Christmas Fires
Winter Coats
After the Abortion
Shaggy Parasol
II
Analog House: A Cabinet of Curiosities
The Singer
Easter Bread
Hades
Doberman
Meat Grinder
Piano Bench
13th Fairy
Washboard
Clothesline
Feather Duster
Spirit Level
Paint-by-Number
Net
Netting
Hats, Purses, Gloves
Vestibule
Deliberate Happiness
Photo on Pony
Underwood in Flames
III
The Zoo at Night (1)
Aphasia of the Moon
Sick Child
Filia
Poster Children
La Sebastiana
Portrait at Fourteen
Ground Time
No Warrior
The Collective
Deathbed Proof
Day Lilies
IV
The Zoo at Night (2)
The Entrance of Beauty
Yellow Sweater
Too Soon
On a Scale Of
Fonder
My Sister and I Are Having the Same Dream
Reading Loop: The Sibyl at Cumae
Mating Dance
Prey
Eclipse
The Buddhas of Bamiyan
Our Road
V
“Report a Problem with This Poem”
“Beautiful Contrivances” in the Sex Life of Orchids
Fumée d’Ambre Gris
The Fascicles of Emily Dickinson
My Mother in the Eye of the Storm
Blue Tooth
Ground Note
Near Capitol Reef, Utah
Pears in Winter
Notes