For Dust Thou Art.
Title:
For Dust Thou Art.
Author:
Liu, Timothy.
ISBN:
9780809388387
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (80 pages)
Series:
Crab Orchard Series in Poetry
Contents:
Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- One -- Tributaries -- Revival -- Low Tide -- Ars Poetica -- Homo ex Humo -- Malignant -- Trespass -- Orpheus at the Threshold -- Self-Portrait as Fucked-Up Mess -- Self-Portrait as Seventies Teen -- Riding the Bull -- The Wealth of Nations -- At the Grand Bazaar -- Civilization and Its Discontents -- Secret Combinations -- A Valentine -- Called Back -- Rosetta Stone -- Two -- The Day After -- A Prayer -- On Broadway -- Dining Out after the Attack -- Holy Law -- Ready-Mades -- Terrorism -- Of Thee I Sing -- Contemplating Disaster with the TV Off -- Sitting Still -- An Inferno -- Vita Breva -- Tenderness in a Dark Age -- For the New Year -- Beauty -- Elegy for Oum Kolsoum Written Across the Sky -- Kamikaze Pilots in Paradise -- Three -- The Book of Abraham -- The Model -- Anniversary -- On Hearing the Seven Last Words of Christ -- Dan Al Set -- Mayakovsky's Scream -- Manifest Destiny -- What Remains -- Overcast -- Pedophilic Ode -- Cemetery -- Fault Line -- Something Coming -- Disgrace -- Besieged by Roses Shot from Quivers -- A Raid for the Bridal -- Ekphrasis in Excelsis Deo -- Holding Pattern -- Other Books in the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry -- Back Cover.
Abstract:
Running the gamut from traditional to radical forms, Timothy Liu's sixth collection of poems, For Dust Thou Art, continues the trajectory of his previous books but extends his lyrical range. The centerpiece of the volume's tripartite structure is a meditation on the events surrounding 9/11 and its aftermath. In his poems, Liu explores what a twenty-first century American "poetry of witness" might look like and protests the charge that the poetic generation to which Liu belongs is stymied by a kind of jaded amorality. Whether taking on public spectacle or contemplating the fallout of a private life, these meditations move forward and backward through time, seeking spiritual consolation within a material world.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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