University of Wisconsin Press, 2013 Paper: 978-0-299-29444-1 | eISBN: 978-0-299-29443-4 Library of Congress Classification PS3623.R464C46 2013 Dewey Decimal Classification 811.6
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Greg Wrenn's debut collection opens with a long poem in which a man undergoes surgery to become a centaur. Other poems speak in voices as varied as those of Robert Mapplethorpe, Hercules, and a Wise Man at the birth of Jesus. Centaur skitters along the blurred lines between compulsivity and following one's heart, stasis and self-realization, human and animal. Here, suffering and transcendence are restlessly conjoined.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Greg Wrenn, a native of northeast Florida, is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow and a recipient of the Lyric Poetry Award from the Poetry Society of America. His work has appeared in New England Review, The American Poetry Review, The Yale Review, and elsewhere. He is a Jones Lecturer at Stanford University.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
I.
Centaur
II.
Low Tide on the Windward Shore
Promiscuity
One of the Magi
Renunciation
Brother on Brother
Reuben on Joseph
Pontiff
Self-Portrait as Robert Mapplethorpe
Manger
Circumcision
III.
Virus
IV.
Thirteen Labors
V.
Ascent
Camphor
Prayer at Ojai
Mother of Light
Revision
South of Jacksonville
Three Attempts to Understand Suffering
Onto
Notes
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University of Wisconsin Press, 2013 Paper: 978-0-299-29444-1 eISBN: 978-0-299-29443-4
Greg Wrenn's debut collection opens with a long poem in which a man undergoes surgery to become a centaur. Other poems speak in voices as varied as those of Robert Mapplethorpe, Hercules, and a Wise Man at the birth of Jesus. Centaur skitters along the blurred lines between compulsivity and following one's heart, stasis and self-realization, human and animal. Here, suffering and transcendence are restlessly conjoined.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Greg Wrenn, a native of northeast Florida, is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow and a recipient of the Lyric Poetry Award from the Poetry Society of America. His work has appeared in New England Review, The American Poetry Review, The Yale Review, and elsewhere. He is a Jones Lecturer at Stanford University.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
I.
Centaur
II.
Low Tide on the Windward Shore
Promiscuity
One of the Magi
Renunciation
Brother on Brother
Reuben on Joseph
Pontiff
Self-Portrait as Robert Mapplethorpe
Manger
Circumcision
III.
Virus
IV.
Thirteen Labors
V.
Ascent
Camphor
Prayer at Ojai
Mother of Light
Revision
South of Jacksonville
Three Attempts to Understand Suffering
Onto
Notes
REQUEST ACCESSIBLE FILE
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