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Oedipus meets the press, and other tragi-comedies of our time

Title
Oedipus meets the press, and other tragi-comedies of our time / Sanford Pinsker.
Author
Pinsker, Sanford.
Publication
Lewiston, NY : Mellen Poetry Press, 1996.

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55 pages; 23 cm
Contents
  • Oedipus Meets the Press -- The Response of Telemachus -- Icarus, After -- Because I Distrust -- Oprah Features the House of Atreus -- Cronos Jaws it up with Larry King -- Nahman, Preparing for a Journey, Bids His Family Farewell -- Nahman Holds a Yard Sale -- Nahman Drinking Schnapps in the Ukraine -- On the Fishes' Road to Istanbul -- Nahman Waits for a Ship to Eretz Israel -- Nahman, Himself Once Again... -- On Rosh Hashanah, Nahman at Last -- But the Next Morning, Nahman Fell -- When the Literary Talk Turns to Oppression -- Fair Youth Beneath the Spanish Steps -- First Grade in Southwestern Pa. -- What We are Afraid to say -- Walking Among the Van Goghs -- WC Williams, This is Just to Say -- To a Student, Afraid I Would not Like her Poems -- Battered by the Gender Wars... -- At the Screening Room -- This is My Gerald Stern Poem -- O Western Canon! When Wilt Thou Go? -- Still Impatient with Politics -- Staring at the Impatient Words "To do ... to do" --
  • As the Summer Slips Furiously Away -- When Sunk in Despair -- Lines Composed During a Final Exam -- The Trouble with the Spiritual Life -- Hammering Away at a Resistant Crab... -- Yet Another Ordinary evening -- Psalm for a Sunday Morning -- Autumn Surprises Lancaster County -- Musings, Late Afternoon -- In the Dream of My Lifetime -- Turning the Corner at Long Last -- Death Arrives as Flashback -- In My Worst Dream -- Surprised by Summer, I Weep -- He Lived in a House -- People Much Married -- Tashlih -- My Father, Who Never Owned a Greenhouse -- Lines to My Mother, Years Later.
ISBN
0773427414 (paper)
LCCN
95000511
OCLC
  • 32665119
  • ocm32665119
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries