Research Catalog

Title

Aim at the centaur stealing your wife / Jennifer Nelson.

Author

Nelson, Jennifer

Publication

• Brooklyn, New York : Ugly Duckling Presse, 2015.
• Berkeley, California : Small Press Distribution.
• Saline, Michigan : McNaughton & Gunn.
• ©2015

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Details

Additional Authors

• Pollaiolo, Antonio, 1426?-1498.
• Ugly Duckling Presse, publisher
• McNaughton & Gunn, printer

Description

83 pages : illustrations; 19 cm

Summary

"In the United States and Europe in the early twenty-first century, a person of mixed ethnicity finds herself questing inside old European art and ideas. Terrible as these things often are, she enjoys recalibrating them, and she is optimistic."--Publisher's website (viewed 11/17/2015).

Genre/Form

American poetry – 21st century.

Note

• Poems.

Contents

Niccolo Paganini's Variations on a theme from Rossini's Moses in Egypt : Stop -- Blue and gold -- Don't believe in suffering -- Don't believe in suffering -- The future. Vergil the enchanter -- The Mantegna oculus rift ; The Capricci and Scherzi di Fantasia of Giovanni Battista Tiepolo : The etchers' meridian -- Death's feet -- For the childlike empress -- Tiepolo as Punchinello -- The owl and the cloud -- The shrine of the later Sibyl -- The birth of Fantasia ; Angela Gheorghiu's Casta diva as heard in the films of Wong Kar Wai : Representations of water -- Love grants me a secular eucharist -- Terror Cratylus Nelson -- I am (not) a scholar -- When I finished writing this the pigeons were gone -- Lovers don't read Kafka -- Occupy Wall Street -- The mad expanse ; White wedding sonnets : It's a nice day to start again -- Hey little sister what have you done -- It's a nice day to start again -- It's a nice day to start again -- Look for something left in this world ; The beauty mark is infinitely deep ; Max Weber's The Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism (tr. Talcott Parsons) : No knowing -- Melencolia II -- The moss of the Danube school -- The desperate Earth.

Call Number

ReCAP 15-37095

ISBN

• 9781937027513
• 1937027511

OCLC

930046893

Author

Nelson, Jennifer, author.

Title

Aim at the centaur stealing your wife / Jennifer Nelson.

Publisher

Brooklyn, New York : Ugly Duckling Presse, 2015.

Distributor

Berkeley, California : Small Press Distribution.

Manufacturer

Saline, Michigan : McNaughton & Gunn.

Copyright Date

©2015

Edition

First edition, first printing.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Biography

"Jennifer Nelson is a postdoctoral fellow at the Michigan Society of Fellows and assistant professor in the Department of the History of Art at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She formerly edited poetry at Epiphany and Washington Square Review. She holds degrees from Yale University, New York University, the Courtauld Institute, and Harvard College. Aim at the Centaur Stealing Your Wife is her first full-length book of poems."--Publisher's website (viewed 11/17/2015).

Place of Publication

United States New York Brooklyn.

Added Author

Illustrations taken from (work): Pollaiolo, Antonio, 1426?-1498. Hercules and Deianira.

Ugly Duckling Presse, publisher.

McNaughton & Gunn, printer.

Research Call Number

ReCAP 15-37095