Research Catalog

Title

Reluctant gravities / by Rosmarie Waldrop.

Author

Waldrop, Rosmarie.

Publication

New York : New Directions, [1999], ©1999.

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Details

Description

96 pages; 21 cm

Summary

• "In her new volume of prose poem "dialogues," Reluctant Gravities, Rosmarie Waldrop pushes the boundaries and definitions of poetry, prose, gender, relationship, even language itself. Intended as a sequel to The Reproduction of Profiles and Laun of Excluded Middle, Rechktant Gravities gives the rhetorical "you" addressed in those earlier volumes a voice and response. Some of Waldrop's concerns are formal.
• As the author herself says, she "cultivates cuts, discontinuity, leaps, shifts of reference" in an attempt to compensate for the lack of margin, where verse would turn toward the white of the page, toward what is not.
• Instead, her "gap gardening tries to place the margin, the emptiness inside the text." Yet the overriding point of the dialogues is determinedly human as the two voices with wit and philosophical playfulness debate aspects of "Aging", "Depression," "Desire," and even "The Millennium.""--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• Prose poems, American
• Imaginary conversations > Poetry

Note

• "A New Directions paperbook original, NDP 889"--P. [4] of cover.

Contents

• Prologue: Two Voices -- Conversation 1. On the Horizontal -- Conversation 2. On the Vertical -- Conversation 3. On Vertigo -- Conversation 4. On Place -- Interlude: Song -- Interlude: Meditation on Fact -- Interlude: Song -- Conversation 5. On Eden -- Conversation 6. On Desire -- Conversation 7. On Thirds -- Conversation 8. On Betweens -- Interlude: Song -- Interlude: Meditation on Certainty -- Interlude: Song -- Conversation 9. On Varieties of Oblivion -- Conversation 10. On Separation -- Conversation 11. On Depth -- Conversation 12. On Hieroglyphs -- Interlude: Song -- Interlude: Meditation on Understanding -- Interlude: Song -- Conversation 13. On Ways of the Body -- Conversation 14. On Blindman's Buff -- Conversation 15. On Sharing -- Conversation 16. On Change -- Interlude: Song -- Interlude: Meditation on the Indefinite -- Interlude: Song -- Conversation 17. On Lift -- Conversation 18. On Depression -- Conversation 19. On Childhood --
• Conversation 20. On Pattern -- Interlude: Song -- Interlude: Meditation on Awakening -- Interlude: Song -- Conversation 21. On Slowing -- Conversation 22. On Aging -- Conversation 23. On Cause -- Conversation 24. On the Millennium.

ISBN

0811214281 (alk. paper)

LCCN

99021344

OCLC

ocm40901151

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries