Research Catalog

Title

Ghost wrestling : poems / by Roger Weingarten.

Author

Weingarten, Roger.

Publication

Boston, Mass. : David R. Godine, Publisher, 1997.

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Description

x, 84 pages; 22 cm

Summary

• The Eight Collection of poems from Roger Weingarten, Ghost Wrestling further demonstrates his mastery at drawing the trappings of daily life - whether rodents in the basement, the Summer Olympics on television, or a fairway sniper - into the sphere of mystery and personal revelation. Weingarten has a sly way with language and an unerring sense of how to weave the strands of experience into the fabric of epiphany.
• In his newest book, these gifts are brought to bear with particular acuity and sureness of touch, making Ghost Wrestling his most accomplished work to date.

Contents

Stomping the Beaver Palace -- The Latin Jazz -- Objects In Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear -- Coming Into Rabat -- Geography IV -- E.S.P. -- Meditation on a Swollen Bladderwort -- P.S. -- Crawling Between Earth and Heaven -- Jungle Gliders -- The Life and Times of My Last Idea -- Ornamental Agony of December -- Passover Mud -- Night on Bear Mountain -- Parable of the First Frost -- The Afterlife -- Portrait of the Artist Relieving Himself in Le Bois Sacre -- Aura, Cry, Fall and Fit -- Passover in the French Quarter -- Villanelle of the Crucified and the Risen Christ -- The Dark Gold Hummock of Desire -- The Ayatollah of I Told You So -- The Spectral Illumination of Moonshine -- In the Cloud Chamber -- Amber -- Dear Mike -- Moment of Vaulted Chambers -- The New Confessions -- Rapid Transit, July 1955 -- Against Friendship -- Ghost Wrestling.

ISBN

156792039X

LCCN

95017834

OCLC

• 32429738
• ocm32429738

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries