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1 online resource (xiv, 56 pages) |
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Poets out loud |
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Poets out loud.
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| Contents |
Things -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Things -- Introduction -- PART I Anxieties about Things -- The Modern Fear of Matter -- Dangerous Things -- Things That Matter -- PART I I Images and Incarnations -- From Stone to Flesh -- Rhetoric of the Heart -- Idolatry -- ��Has this thing appeared again tonight?�� -- Portraits That Matter -- PART I I I Sacred Artifacts -- Material Mobility Versus Concentric Cosmology in the Sukkah -- The Tasbirwol (Prayer Beads) under Attack |
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Miniatures and Stones in the Spiritual Economy of the Virgin of ˜Urkupina in BoliviaPART I V Bodily Fluids -- Fluid Matters -- ��When you see blood, it brings truth�� -- A Pentecostal Passion Paradigm -- PART V Public Space -- The Structural Transformation of the Coffeehouse -- The Affective Power of the Face Veil -- ��There is a spirit in that image�� -- The FedEx Saints -- PART V I Digital Technologies -- Enchantment, Inc. -- Fulfilling the Sacred Potential of Technology -- In Their Own Image? -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index |
| Summary |
Annotation Things That No Longer Delight Me is a collection of poems about family and memory. This book is filled with objects. The author writes: I like objects for company, to decorate the plainest spaces, decorum and amass details, jade bracelet, her animal-print dresses, an oval coral cameo. How do objects counter loneliness, she asks, and speak to us of how to behave? In Things That No Longer Delight Me, lyric is driven by a compulsion or need to collect, in order to make sense of the past andstay connected to it. And what if that connection were to be lost? Confronting loss, the book pieces together a family history from stories fragmented and overheard. It asks: What is hearsay and what is history? It seeks to embody story, or historical detail, in lyric form. Resisting nostalgia, its poems respect what is diminished by grief or loss yet reveal details that hold sway over us and give us continuing pleasure |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
American poetry.
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American literature.
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POETRY -- American -- General.
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American literature
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American poetry
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781441644763 |
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1441644768 |
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0823241629 |
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9780823241620 |
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0823248992 |
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9780823248995 |
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