Even Then: Poems
by Michael Wurster
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019
Paper: 978-0-8229-6581-7 | eISBN: 978-0-8229-8675-1
Library of Congress Classification PS3573.U77E94 2019
Dewey Decimal Classification 811.54
Paper: 978-0-8229-6581-7 | eISBN: 978-0-8229-8675-1
Library of Congress Classification PS3573.U77E94 2019
Dewey Decimal Classification 811.54
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
A new collection of poetry from a founding member of the Pittsburgh Poetry Exchange.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Michael Wurster is the author of numerous poetry books and is a founding member of Pittsburgh Poetry Exchange. For 17 years, he taught at Pittsburgh Center for the Arts School. He is co-editor, with Judith R. Robinson, of the anthology, Along These Rivers: Poetry & Photography from Pittsburgh (Quadrant Press, 2008), and The Brentwood Anthology (Lummox Press, 2014). In 1996, Wurster was an inaugural recipient of a Pittsburgh Magazine Harry Schwalb Excellence in the Arts Award for his contributions to poetry and the community.
REVIEWS
“It’s been said that W.S. Merwin invented a new poetic idiom. Thus, American poetry took its bold, new direction. The same is true of Michael Wurster who, while surveying the passing of history for over five decades, has pared-down his poet’s language until everything is burned away except the essential truth.” —James Deahl
“Wurster’s chiseled poems embrace Georges Perec’s quirky investigations of the “infraordinary”—street, tavern, post office, kitchen. Then they release eerie and enchanting singing from an infrared subterranean chamber of friends, sisters, animals, moons, smoke, history, humor, and tenderness. Wurster is unique, oddly disarming, and essential.” —Judith Vollmer
“Michael Wurster’s poetry collection, Even Then, highlights his minimalist style, but the art within each piece is maximal. Love and death are strikingly represented in “Love Is a Gypsy” and “In a Gray Coat.” Besides those poems, there are about 77 more to be savored. Even Then is about continuity: of how what happened ‘even then’ continues even now, unto infinity.” —Rosemary Cappello
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Jul Awake
In a Gray Coat
Love Is a Gypsy
Luna
The War
Mannequins from Space
The Windmill
The Hat
Poetry, Song
Early Morning, Looking Out
Western Passage
One for Benny
Endurance
Last Night
Good Cowboys
Instructions for My Memorial Reading
Tattoo
The Dead
Vagrancy
Marva’s Song
Silver Screen
Bichon Frise
Breton Barefoot
The Trees, The Fires
The Chase
The Yellowjackets
Country of Ghosts
Off the Bone Road
The Birds Turn
The Graveyard of the Sharks
Remarkable Cats of Roberts Road
About Family
Red Cross
His Young Days
The History of Justice
Return to a Place Lit by Charles Simic
Song
How to Seduce a Communist Woman
Early Television Icons Are Dying
A Blue Secret
John Deere
Men Here
Dream
Writing Exercise
Red Watering Can
Two by Two by Two
Arctostaphylos knightii, The First Sighting
I Read a Lot
The Best Country in the World
The Yew Trees
Horses
The Lost Poem
Ball
Insect Gods
Eating Color
Soviet Socialist Love Tokens
James Dickey
Lum De Day
Squirrel
Map
Thirty Seconds
Atoms
Poets
Return Home
That’s Jack!
Looking at Third
Delta
Into the Closet
Outpost
Imagination
In Suzanne’s House
The Hotel Earle
Even Then
Note
Acknowledgments
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