Northwestern University Press, 2008 Cloth: 978-0-8101-5206-9 | Paper: 978-0-8101-5205-2 | eISBN: 978-0-8101-6254-9 Library of Congress Classification PS3616.U35R47 2008 Dewey Decimal Classification 811.6
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Complex and focused, this collection of poems moves along the line between waking and sleeping to reveal a narrator who is contemplating her origins as well as her future. Pugh frequently turns in her work to the image of a bed--as a source of comfort, an erotic landing, and a place for dreaming. For Pugh, dreams both obscure and reveal, their language a code to be analyzed, as in her longer meditation inspired by Freud's case history "Dora." After dipping dangerously far into dreams, Pugh's poems return to a world of activity, full of physicality before becoming calm. At the end of the book, the self is restored and can see the world through a newly formed lens taken from its dreams.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Christina Pugh’s previous collections of poetry are Restoration (Northwestern University Press, 2008) and Rotary (Word Press, 2004; winner of the Word Press First Book Prize). Her recent honors include a 2015 Guggenheim fellowship in poetry and a Bogliasco Foundation fellowship in 2016. She is Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago and consulting editor for Poetry magazine.
REVIEWS
"[A]n elegant, intimate, and melodious 'journey in a circle'... It combines a confessional poet's personality with a language poet's anxiety about the written word, a romantic's insistence on self with a postmodernist's sense of fracture, and an imagist's attention to detail with the metaphorist's imaginative freedom. In this way, Pugh addresses the aesthetic the concerns of her day while also surpassing them."--Jennifer Banks
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Acknowledgments 000
I. Dream Work
Chords at Night 000
Musical 000
Journey in a Circle 000
Stitch 000
Retro 000
Blue Window 000
Reconstruction: An Emblem 000
A Boy, Listening 000
Sebald's Dream Props 000
Loan 000
World's End 000
Bindery 000
Paris, 1950 000
Shard 000
Chamber of Commerce 000
Padeuteria 000
Choose 000
Looking for Mother 000
Drown 000
Twenty-Third 000
Synesthetic 000
My First Name 000
Parable 000
Two Beds 000
Parable 000
The Dig 000
Embouchure 000
II. Case History
Notes for Dora 000
III. Restoration: The Senses
Cicadas 000
Seeing In 000
The New Retina 000
Inventions 000
I. Psalm Invention in the West 000
II. Arc Away 000
III. Green World 000
Saussure and the Divers 000
The Desk 000
Windy City 000
Pond Way 000
Free Throw 000
Helve 000
Malibu Lipstick 000
Rue Family 000
Falconer 000
Mercurial (Soap, Glass, Skull) 000
One Thousand Cranes 000
I Had No Human Fears 000
Lineage 000
I Shall Not Want 000
Repent 000
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Northwestern University Press, 2008 Cloth: 978-0-8101-5206-9 Paper: 978-0-8101-5205-2 eISBN: 978-0-8101-6254-9
Complex and focused, this collection of poems moves along the line between waking and sleeping to reveal a narrator who is contemplating her origins as well as her future. Pugh frequently turns in her work to the image of a bed--as a source of comfort, an erotic landing, and a place for dreaming. For Pugh, dreams both obscure and reveal, their language a code to be analyzed, as in her longer meditation inspired by Freud's case history "Dora." After dipping dangerously far into dreams, Pugh's poems return to a world of activity, full of physicality before becoming calm. At the end of the book, the self is restored and can see the world through a newly formed lens taken from its dreams.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Christina Pugh’s previous collections of poetry are Restoration (Northwestern University Press, 2008) and Rotary (Word Press, 2004; winner of the Word Press First Book Prize). Her recent honors include a 2015 Guggenheim fellowship in poetry and a Bogliasco Foundation fellowship in 2016. She is Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago and consulting editor for Poetry magazine.
REVIEWS
"[A]n elegant, intimate, and melodious 'journey in a circle'... It combines a confessional poet's personality with a language poet's anxiety about the written word, a romantic's insistence on self with a postmodernist's sense of fracture, and an imagist's attention to detail with the metaphorist's imaginative freedom. In this way, Pugh addresses the aesthetic the concerns of her day while also surpassing them."--Jennifer Banks
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Acknowledgments 000
I. Dream Work
Chords at Night 000
Musical 000
Journey in a Circle 000
Stitch 000
Retro 000
Blue Window 000
Reconstruction: An Emblem 000
A Boy, Listening 000
Sebald's Dream Props 000
Loan 000
World's End 000
Bindery 000
Paris, 1950 000
Shard 000
Chamber of Commerce 000
Padeuteria 000
Choose 000
Looking for Mother 000
Drown 000
Twenty-Third 000
Synesthetic 000
My First Name 000
Parable 000
Two Beds 000
Parable 000
The Dig 000
Embouchure 000
II. Case History
Notes for Dora 000
III. Restoration: The Senses
Cicadas 000
Seeing In 000
The New Retina 000
Inventions 000
I. Psalm Invention in the West 000
II. Arc Away 000
III. Green World 000
Saussure and the Divers 000
The Desk 000
Windy City 000
Pond Way 000
Free Throw 000
Helve 000
Malibu Lipstick 000
Rue Family 000
Falconer 000
Mercurial (Soap, Glass, Skull) 000
One Thousand Cranes 000
I Had No Human Fears 000
Lineage 000
I Shall Not Want 000
Repent 000
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