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Tea with Osiris
- Title
- Tea with Osiris / Paul West.
- Author
- West, Paul, 1930-2015.
- Publication
- Santa Fe, NM : Lumen Books ; St. Paul, MN : Distributed by Consortium Book Sales and Distribution, [2006], ©2006.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PS3573.E8247 T32 2006g | Off-site |
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- Description
- 115 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Osiris - Egyptian king and god of the dead, struck down by his brother Seth, sliced into pieces, and cast into the Nile only to be retrieved and reassembled by his sister Isis - serves Paul West as the informing spirit for this book of sonnets that observes his experience of a traumatic stroke and distills a multi-toned harmony." "The first book of poems by West in many years, Tea with Osiris will astonish readers with its formal control: the sonnet's fourteen lines corresponding to the sectioning of the god, its exuberant grotesqueries of hospital life, its reinvention of myth, its wit and humor, and, ultimately, its poetic celebration of a devastating visitation. For finally, in the world of Osiris, "Our nightmares are what sustain us.""--BOOK JACKET.
- Note
- Poems.
- ISBN
- 0930829557
- OCLC
- ocm68447584
- SCSB-5243063
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries