The Chinese Insomniacs : : New Poems / / Josephine Jacobsen.
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 hig...
Saved in:
Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Archive (pre 2000) eBook Package |
---|---|
VerfasserIn: | |
Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016] ©1982 |
Year of Publication: | 2016 |
Edition: | Reprint 2016 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Anniversary Collection
|
Online Access: | |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (80 p.) |
Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
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