A Drink at the Mirage / / Michael J. Rosen.

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• VerfasserIn: Rosen, Michael J.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]; ©1985
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets ; 86
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (76 p.)

"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 HowardOriginally published in 1985.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CONTENTS -- A DRINK AT THE MIRAGE -- Pony Penning Day -- The Cutting of Nijinsky's Feet -- Ice Sculptures -- The Woman in Ice -- Roadside Statuary -- In Central Park -- Spectacles: A Late Spring -- At Brunch We Entertain the Notion of the Perfect Place to Live -- Outside a Milton Avery Exhibit -- ARTIST'S PROOF -- Total Eclipse -- Next -- Another Figurescape -- "Blind Minotaur Guided by a Little Girl in the Night" -- Artist's Proof -- Primitive Examples -- MAKING SCENES -- Hidden Pictures -- What's Wrong With This Picture? -- Story Problem -- July -- Precipitation -- November -- The Same River Twice -- Calling Into Question -- November, Again -- Freeway Flowers -- December, The Botanical Gardens -- COLD SUITOURS -- Our Places at the Table -- The Age When Parents Don't Need Reasons -- Vivarium -- Circling Columbus -- A Family Tree -- Notes Through the Winter -- The Fire Pond -- In Exchange for Wood -- Driving Past Morocco, Indiana -- Strand -- PRINCETON SERIES OF CONTEMPORARY POETS -- Backmatter