Disposable camera
Although Disposable Camera is Janet Foxman's first book-length collection, one would not know it given the wry sophistication of the poems found within. The notion of the disposable camera permeates the entire book, where Foxman considers the instabilities in even our deepest attachments. Here gulfs expand, for instance, between twins, between the musician and his instrument, between the recluse and his inconsolable solitude. Whether a hermit; a twin; a filmgoer utterly taken with Triumph of th…
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Although Disposable Camera is Janet Foxman's first book-length collection, one would not know it given the wry sophistication of the poems found within. The notion of the disposable camera permeates the entire book, where Foxman considers the instabilities in even our deepest attachments. Here gulfs expand, for instance, between twins, between the musician and his instrument, between the recluse and his inconsolable solitude. Whether a hermit; a twin; a filmgoer utterly taken with Triumph of the Will; or Masaccio, just after he's painted the Expulsion-the p.
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- Publication Date:©2012.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):The University of Chicago Press
- Place of Publication:Chicago
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2012.
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Poems.
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- Description:1 online resource
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780226924120, 0226924122, 0226924122, 6613970042, 9786613970046, 1283657546, 9781283657549
- oclc:ocn812629781
- LC Classification:PS3606.O96
- Dewey Decimal:811/.6
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments; One; New House; The Orchestra; Smorzando; Deciding Between Far- or Near-Sightedness Before Eye Surgery; Pages from My Father's Dream Journal; Souvenir; Three Pictures; Ferryboat; Postcard from My Hometown in Summer; Disposable Camera; Two; Palindromist's Song; Seven Ways of Paraphrase; Letters to My Twin; Mouths: In Their Own Words; Swimmers; Evening Poem; Last Act: The Creation; Three; Rex; Jellyfish; Dubuffet on Uncertainty; Letter; Dinner à Deux; Lines for a Love Poem; New Life; Spring; Four; Christ's Entry into Brussels (Ensor); The Führer Descends from Heaven.
Masaccio Addresses Eve at the Brancacci ChapelAnagramist's Song; Harvest Fair; The Pause; Love Poem; Hermit's Glossary; Tableau; Notes.
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