University of Wisconsin Press, 2003 Paper: 978-0-299-19404-8 | Cloth: 978-0-299-19400-0 | eISBN: 978-0-299-19403-1 Library of Congress Classification PS3620.E427R66 2003 Dewey Decimal Classification 811.6
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
An architecture equally poetry, fairy-tale, autobiography, and fiction, The Room Where I Was Born rebuilds the house of the lyric from fragments salvaged from experience and literature. Though the poems are borne out of the intersection of violence and sexuality, they also affirm the tenderness and compassion necessary to give consciousness and identity sufficient meaning. Its language the threshold over which the brutal crosses into the beautiful, this collection is an achievement of courage and vision.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Brian Teare is a 2003 National Endowment for the Arts poetry fellow. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, his poetry has appeared in Ploughshares, Boston Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Pleiades, and Colorado Review. This is his first book.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Table of Contents
I
Circa 000
Rules for the Telling
Rules for the Telling 000
First person plural is a house 000
Sleeping Beauty & the Prince: Self-portrait as Victim & Perpetrator 000
Poem Between Line Breaks 000
Begin, Beware--
I. Invocation 000
In the Library of the Fairy Tale, 000
The Milk-Father 000
[ The Floating Poem ]
II. The Tutelary Forest 000
In the Library of the Fairy Tale, 000
The Aviary Hour 000
The room where I was born 000
Circa 000
Then We Were Raptured
Bad like 000
Marriage Elegy 000
"A Family Establishment"-- 000
Drowned Houses 000
Children's Songs 000
Touch 000
Then we were Raptured. 000
Apiary 000
"Shirley Temples for the girls," 000
Dangerous Kitchen 000
II
Agoraphobia: A Reply 000
Set for a Southern Gothic
Because David & Jonathan 000
Trick Noir 000
Against Abstraction 000
Set for a Southern Gothic 000
Circa 000
The Word Cock & the Sublime
Detail from "Set for a Southern Gothic" 000
House in Summer with a Slapped Face in It 000
Tenement Body 000
The Word Cock & the Sublime 000
--of a Sleeping Man, & a Second Man Awake 000
Toward Lost Letters
Toward Lost Letters 000
Circa 000
Notes 000
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University of Wisconsin Press, 2003 Paper: 978-0-299-19404-8 Cloth: 978-0-299-19400-0 eISBN: 978-0-299-19403-1
An architecture equally poetry, fairy-tale, autobiography, and fiction, The Room Where I Was Born rebuilds the house of the lyric from fragments salvaged from experience and literature. Though the poems are borne out of the intersection of violence and sexuality, they also affirm the tenderness and compassion necessary to give consciousness and identity sufficient meaning. Its language the threshold over which the brutal crosses into the beautiful, this collection is an achievement of courage and vision.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Brian Teare is a 2003 National Endowment for the Arts poetry fellow. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, his poetry has appeared in Ploughshares, Boston Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Pleiades, and Colorado Review. This is his first book.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
<table of contents, p. vii>
Table of Contents
I
Circa 000
Rules for the Telling
Rules for the Telling 000
First person plural is a house 000
Sleeping Beauty & the Prince: Self-portrait as Victim & Perpetrator 000
Poem Between Line Breaks 000
Begin, Beware--
I. Invocation 000
In the Library of the Fairy Tale, 000
The Milk-Father 000
[ The Floating Poem ]
II. The Tutelary Forest 000
In the Library of the Fairy Tale, 000
The Aviary Hour 000
The room where I was born 000
Circa 000
Then We Were Raptured
Bad like 000
Marriage Elegy 000
"A Family Establishment"-- 000
Drowned Houses 000
Children's Songs 000
Touch 000
Then we were Raptured. 000
Apiary 000
"Shirley Temples for the girls," 000
Dangerous Kitchen 000
II
Agoraphobia: A Reply 000
Set for a Southern Gothic
Because David & Jonathan 000
Trick Noir 000
Against Abstraction 000
Set for a Southern Gothic 000
Circa 000
The Word Cock & the Sublime
Detail from "Set for a Southern Gothic" 000
House in Summer with a Slapped Face in It 000
Tenement Body 000
The Word Cock & the Sublime 000
--of a Sleeping Man, & a Second Man Awake 000
Toward Lost Letters
Toward Lost Letters 000
Circa 000
Notes 000
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
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