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Название: No Second Eden

Автор: Turner Cassity

Издательство: Ingram

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      NO SECOND EDEN

      NO SECOND EDEN

      POEMS

      TURNER CASSITY

      SWALLOW PRESS / OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS

      ATHENS

      Swallow Press/Ohio University Press, Athens, Ohio 45701

      © 2002 by Turner Cassity

      Printed in the United States of America

      All rights reserved

      Swallow Press/Ohio University Press

      books are printed on acid-free paper image

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      Initial appearances of some of these poems were in the following periodicals: Poetry: “The Metrist at the Operetta,” “The Dueling Scar,” “Manual vs. White Collar,” “Why Geriatrics Are Not Sacrificed,” “Watching the Stopwatch Stopping”; Georgia Review: “Stylization and Its Failures”; The Formalist: “Distant Early Warning”; Chattahoochee Review: “Oysters and Other Workers”; Lullwater Review: “Neckties”; Chicago Review: “Crime and Punishment”; Drastic Measures: “Boxcar Arthur and Other Myth,” “Boxcar Arthur, the Sequel”; Edge City Review: “Enola Gay Rights”; Southwest Review: “Venerations”; The Review (London): “Victory”; American Poetry Monthly: “Aurora Borealis of the Inner Eye,” “Sonar Readings.”

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Cassity, Turner.

      No second Eden : poems / Turner Cassity.

      p. cm.

      ISBN 0-8040-1050-1 (acid-free paper) — ISBN 0-8040-1051-x (pbk. : acid-free paper)

      I. Title.

      PS3553.A8 N6 2002

      811'.54—dc21

      2002066918

      IN MEMORY OF DOROTHY TURNER CASSITY 1903–1999

      Self-knowledge speaks ill for people; it shows they are what they are, almost on purpose.

      —I. Compton-Burnett,

      Parents and Children

      Contents

       A Member of the Mystik Krewe

       The Metrist at the Operetta

       Stylization and Its Failures

       WTC

       Cities of the Plain and Fancy

       Not to Seize the Moment

       Transpositions

       Aurora Borealis of the Inner Eye

       The Creatures of Prometheus

       Uses of Hot Air

       Junkerdom in Huntsville

       Distant Early Warning

       The Dueling Scar

       Karl and Julius and Gregory, or, Are You a Fructidor?

       Sonar Readings

       Now You See It, Now You Don’t

       A Diamond Is Forever

       Oysters and Other Workers

       Smile Please

       Adam with a Garden Hose

       Let My People Go, but not without Severance Pay

       Manual vs. White Collar

       Program Notes for an Orgy

       In the Matter of Graven Images

       Sensitivity Training: The Safecracker

       J. P. Morgan

       Neckties

       A Different Perspective on A Rebours

       Favorites

       Crime and Punishment

       Boxcar Arthur and Other Myth

       Boxcar Arthur, СКАЧАТЬ