Earthly Delights (eBook)

Poems

Troy Jollimore (Autor)

eBook Download: PDF

2021
128 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-21884-7 (ISBN)

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From the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, a new collection of philosophical, elegiac, and wry meditations on film, painting, music, and poetry itselfEarthly Delights begins with an invocation to the muse and ends with the departure of Odysseus from Ithaca. In between, Troy Jollimore's distinguished new collection ranges widely, with cinematic and adventurous poems that often concern artistic creation and its place in the world. A great many center on films, from Andrei Tarkovsky's Nostalghia to Paul Thomas Anderson's Boogie Nights. The title poem reflects on Hieronymus Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights, while another is an elegy for Gord Downie, the lead singer and lyricist for the cult rock band The Tragically Hip. Other poems address various forms of political insanity, from the Kennedy assassination to today's active shooter drills, and philosophical ideas, from Ralph Waldo Emerson's musings on beauty to John D. Rockefeller's thoughts on the relation between roses and capitalist ethics. The book's longest poem, "e;American Beauty,"e; returns repeatedly to the film of that name, but ultimately becomes a meditation on the Western history of making and looking, and-like many of the book's poems-an elegy for lost things.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.9.2021
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
• Schlagworte: A Defense of Abortion • Aeschylus • Against the Odds (TV series) • Alternate ending • Andre Gregory • Art deco • Audience • author • Beautiful Thing (play) • Beholder (Dungeons & Dragons) • Bob Dylan • CAMPFIRE • carcinogen • Celluloid • Citizen Kane • container ship • cruelty • dark skin • Divine Comedy • Drinking • Episode • Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind • Euripides • Fetus • film industry • Film noir • Fireworks • forehead • foreplay • Forklift • Freaks and Geeks • Harshness • Herman Melville • Huey P. Newton • human eye • Husk • Hygiene • Inside Llewyn Davis • invisible ink • John D. Rockefeller Jr. • John Malkovich • Judith Jarvis Thomson • Lament • laureate • L'Avventura • Lea Massari • Lighting • Lilt • Live-In • Lunch • Main Course • manicure • Market penetration • meal • Metal Detector • Michelangelo Antonioni • Moment to Moment • Monica Vitti • Most Shocking • movie theater • Myrtle Stedman • No Country for old Men • Nostos • odor • Opinion piece • Orgasm • Orson Welles • Our Hero • Our planet • Paul Verlaine • Poetry • Prose • Protagonist • Publication • Rear Window • RICE CAKE • Road surface • Screenshot • Sequoia sempervirens • shelter in place • Silver coin • Sophocles • Sunflowers (Van Gogh series) • Surface Water • Synecdoche • Tendril • That Night • The Film Crew • The Garden of Earthly Delights • The Lunch (Velázquez) • The Magnificent Ambersons • The Nature of Things • The New York Times • The Talented Mr. Ripley • Thought • True Beauty (TV series) • twilight's last gleaming • Vanya on 42nd Street • Walden Pond • watching • William Desmond Taylor • William Tecumseh Sherman • Writing • zapruder film
• ISBN-10: 0-691-21884-6 / 0691218846
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-21884-7 / 9780691218847