University of Wisconsin Press, 1988 Paper: 978-0-299-11924-9 Library of Congress Classification PS3576.E37P6 1988 Dewey Decimal Classification 811.54
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC | REQUEST ACCESSIBLE FILE
ABOUT THIS BOOK
In this, the fourth volume to win the Brittingham Prize in Poetry, Lisa Zeidner’s twenty-two poems introduce a surprising range of characters, from a cryogenically preserved caveman to a 78-year-old widow arrested for shoplifting. Some of the narratives collected here are unusually long (like “Dementia Colander,” a mock-epic about the history of an unnamed nation whose king suffers a rare disease). These poems attempt to offer not just poetic moments, glimpses of joy or loss, but a sense of self in time and history—whole lives in all of their busy-ness and disorder. Lisa Zeidner’s dark wit considers any subject, from the Holocaust to child abuse, a subject for intellectual playfulness and emotional discovery.
Despite the range of subjects, the poems in Pocket Sundial are bound by a concern for time, for how we think about time. These are poems about memory, foresight, anticipation, regret—all of chronology’s complexities.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Lisa Zeidner is associate professor of English at Rutgers University in Camden, where she teaches writing and literature. Her first book of poems, Talking Cure, was published by Texas Tech Press in 1982. She has also written two novels, Customs and Alexandra Freed, both published by Alfred A. Knopf.
REVIEWS
Winner of the Brittingham Prize in Poetry
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
One
A Bomb
Pothole
Baltimore Avenue
Transvestite
Safety in Numbers
Child's Moon
Sweeping
Bach's Other Sixteen Children
The Collector's Fire
What Really Happens When the Plane Goes Down
Dementia Collander
Two
Happiness
A Goldfish in a Bag
Bat and Skyscraper
Lesson
Dying in Your Dreams
The Mesopotamian Tool Room
Woman, 78, Caught Shoplifting
Saturday Morning Cartoons
Gypsy Moths
Decisions, Decisions
Needlepoint Guernica
REQUEST ACCESSIBLE FILE
If you are a student who cannot use this book in printed form, BiblioVault may be able to supply you
with an electronic file for alternative access.
Please have the accessibility coordinator at your school fill out this form.
University of Wisconsin Press, 1988 Paper: 978-0-299-11924-9
In this, the fourth volume to win the Brittingham Prize in Poetry, Lisa Zeidner’s twenty-two poems introduce a surprising range of characters, from a cryogenically preserved caveman to a 78-year-old widow arrested for shoplifting. Some of the narratives collected here are unusually long (like “Dementia Colander,” a mock-epic about the history of an unnamed nation whose king suffers a rare disease). These poems attempt to offer not just poetic moments, glimpses of joy or loss, but a sense of self in time and history—whole lives in all of their busy-ness and disorder. Lisa Zeidner’s dark wit considers any subject, from the Holocaust to child abuse, a subject for intellectual playfulness and emotional discovery.
Despite the range of subjects, the poems in Pocket Sundial are bound by a concern for time, for how we think about time. These are poems about memory, foresight, anticipation, regret—all of chronology’s complexities.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Lisa Zeidner is associate professor of English at Rutgers University in Camden, where she teaches writing and literature. Her first book of poems, Talking Cure, was published by Texas Tech Press in 1982. She has also written two novels, Customs and Alexandra Freed, both published by Alfred A. Knopf.
REVIEWS
Winner of the Brittingham Prize in Poetry
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
One
A Bomb
Pothole
Baltimore Avenue
Transvestite
Safety in Numbers
Child's Moon
Sweeping
Bach's Other Sixteen Children
The Collector's Fire
What Really Happens When the Plane Goes Down
Dementia Collander
Two
Happiness
A Goldfish in a Bag
Bat and Skyscraper
Lesson
Dying in Your Dreams
The Mesopotamian Tool Room
Woman, 78, Caught Shoplifting
Saturday Morning Cartoons
Gypsy Moths
Decisions, Decisions
Needlepoint Guernica
REQUEST ACCESSIBLE FILE
If you are a student who cannot use this book in printed form, BiblioVault may be able to supply you
with an electronic file for alternative access.
Please have the accessibility coordinator at your school fill out this form.
It can take 2-3 weeks for requests to be filled.
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC | REQUEST ACCESSIBLE FILE