Research Catalog

Title

Imaginary vessels / Paisley Rekdal.

Author

Rekdal, Paisley

Publication

Port Townsend, Washington : Copper Canyon Press, [2016]

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Details

Additional Authors

Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library). Collections, repository. poe

Description

xii, 119 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

""Compelling, appealing, cinematic. Rekdal refreshes the meaning and the image of being displaced in this world." -The Boston Globe "Rekdal's work deeply satisfies, for it witnesses and wonders over the necessary struggles of human awareness and being." -Rain Taxi "In acknowledging the disappointing facts of our existence and singing her way into its amazement, she has created poetry that lives alongside the misery we sometimes witness-and sometimes cause." -Slate Paisley Rekdal questions how identity and being inhabit metaphorical and personified "vessels," from blown glass and soap bubbles to skulls unearthed at the Colorado State Mental Institution. Whether writing short lyrics or a sonnet sequence celebrating Mae West, Rekdal's intellectually inquisitive and carefully researched poems delight in sound, meter, and head-on engagement. Illustrated with twelve Andrea Modica photographs. From "You're": Vague as fog and turnip-hipped, a creel of eels that slithers in stains. Dirty slate, you're Diamond Lil. She's you, you say. You're her. She's I. O Mae, fifth grade, we dressed in feathers and our mothers' slit pink slips, dipped into your schema and your accent, aspiring (like you) to be able to order coffee and have it sound like filth. Paisley Rekdal is the author of four books of poetry, a book of personal essays, and a mixed media book of photography, poetry, fiction and non-fiction. She lives in Salt Lake City and teaches at the University of Utah"--

Uniform Title

Poems. Selections

Alternative Title

Poems.

Subject

American poetry

Genre/Form

• poetry.
• Poetry
• Poésie.

Note

• "Lannan literary selection."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (page 117).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Murano -- Bubbles -- Vessels -- A Peacock in a Cage -- At the Fishhouses -- When it is Over, it Will Be Over -- Letter From the Pribilofs -- Go West -- You're -- Mae West: Advice -- Marriage -- Censored -- Freedom -- Go West -- The New Woman -- Mae West: On Aging -- "Celebrity" Striptease at Southern X-Posure -- Confessional -- Self-Portrait as Mae West One -- Liner -- Never -- Prayer -- Envoi -- W.C. Fields Takes a Walk -- Philip Larkin's Koan -- Once -- Saturdays at Reynolds Work Release -- Olive Oatman in Texas -- Assemblage of Ruined Plane Parts, Vietnam Military Museum, Hanoi -- Shooting the Skulls: A Wartime Devotional -- Portrait of F19: Male, 42 Years Old -- Portrait of D6: Male, 38 Years Old/B17: Male, 38 Years Old -- F21: Male, 37 Years Old -- Devotional -- Devotional -- Portrait of F11: Female, 39 Years Old -- F20: Male, 29 Years Old -- Portrait of D19: Male, 41 Years Old -- Portrait of D17: Female, 37 Years Old -- C18: Male, 36 Years Old -- Devotional -- Devotional -- Portrait of E4: Male, 34 Years Old -- Devotional -- Devotional -- C2: Male, 42 Years Old -- Portrait of E20: Female, 32 Years Old -- C11 : Female, 54 Years Old -- Portrait of B4: Female, 34 Years Old -- Portrait of C8: Male, 32 Years Old -- Baucis and Philemon -- Rhetoric -- Irises -- Monticello Vase -- Birthday Poem -- Mortal Love -- The History of Paisley.

ISBN

• 9781556594977
• 1556594976

LCCN

^^2016019489

OCLC

945949126

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library