The Chinese Insomniacs : : New Poems / / Josephine Jacobsen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Archive (pre 2000) eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: Jacobsen, Josephine,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016]; ©1982
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Edition: Reprint 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Anniversary Collection
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (80 p.)

Of the handful of American poets who have made a contribution to the fields of fiction and literary criticism, Josephine Jacobsen has been one of the most widely acclaimed for the force and originality of her work. In The Chinese Insomniacs, a wholly new collection of her poetry, she reaches her highest level of intensity in poems about people, the landscape of dreams, and the nature of time. She shows us the common bonds of human beings from century to century with an empathetic intelligence that is rare in American letters today.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- I. PERSONAE -- The Chinese Insomniacs -- The Gesture -- The Rock-Plant Wife -- Reading Aloud at Dusk in Spring -- Mr. Mahoney -- Pondicherry Blues -- The Arrivals -- Elective Affinities -- Carney Elegy -- Country Drive-In -- Linkwood Road -- The Fiction Writer -- Margins of Choice -- The Travelers -- The Leopard-Nurser -- II. POEMS -- The Gondolas -- Good Fortune of Pigeons -- The Provider -- The Things -- There She Is -- The Dream Habitués -- Two Escudos -- The Shell Eyes of Idols -- Language as an Escape from the Discrete -- Simon -- Tears -- Winter Forecast -- Spread of Mrs. Mobey's Lawn -- Rainy Night at the Writers' Colony -- Breaking and Entering -- Ascetic's Soliloquy -- How We Learn -- The Monosyllable -- Finally -- Border -- Short Views in Africa -- III. NOTES TOWARD TIME -- Notes Toward Time -- A Motel in Troy New York -- Bulletin from the Writer's Colony -- Power Failure -- The Clock -- For Murasaki -- Trial Run -- Arachne, Astonished -- Food -- The Fittest -- The Night Watchman -- It Is the Season -- Figure