| Description |
1 online resource (59 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Princeton series of contemporary poets
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Princeton series of contemporary poets.
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| Note |
Poems. |
| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; The Sabbath; Glass Work Song; The Prophets; The Muse; The Crusades; The Builder; The Collar; The Apostles; Discernment; The Chance; In Ordinary Time; October Advent; The Begats; The Shepherd; Lectio Divina; The Hours; Agnus Dei; The Brooklyn Heavens; Evangelical; Birthday; Sermon; Original Sin; Faith; Incarnation; No, Euripides; Yahweh; Apples for Thoreau; Jerusalem; The Crucifixion; The Lord's Prayer; The Disciples; Sure; Amen; |
| Summary |
In Anthony Carelli's remarkable debut, Carnations, the poems attempt to reanimate dead metaphors as blossoms: wild and lovely but also fleeting, mortal, and averse to the touch. Here, the poems are carnations, not only flowers, but also body-making words. Nodding to influences as varied as George Herbert, Francis Ponge, Fernando Pessoa, and D.H. Lawrence, Carelli asserts that the poet's materials--words, objects, phenomena--are sacred, wilting in the moment, yet perennially renewed. Often taking titles from a biblical vocabulary, Carnations reminds us that unremarkable places and events--a ga. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
American poetry.
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American poetry. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Carelli, Anthony, 1979- Carnations. Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2011 9780691149448 (DLC) 2010035406 (OCoLC)660161873 |
| ISBN |
9781400838240 (electronic book) |
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140083824X (electronic book) |
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9780691149448 |
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0691149445 |
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9780691149455 |
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0691149453 |
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