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1 online resource |
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Pitt poetry series |
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Pitt poetry series.
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| Contents |
Intro -- Contents -- Make Your Home in the Imperfect Present -- I: If I Told You -- My Life in a Coffee Cup -- If I Told You -- Kafka's Hands -- How Many Secrets? -- Ammonite -- The Pangolin -- 8.3 Billion Metric Tons -- Ode to Chufa -- Passepartout -- Ode to Pubic Hair -- Black Leather Backpack -- The Loneliness of His Death, the Death of His Loneliness -- To Wait and to Hope -- How Do I Fix the World -- Courage! -- II: Appearances -- Self-Portrait as Corncrake -- Midnight in Paris -- Cinquains to Pablo -- At the Fountain of the Fallen Angel in Retiro Park -- Cancelled Letter to Antoni Gaudí |
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It Takes So Little -- Evening Storms -- Trilogy of Doubt -- Cinquains of Doubt -- Innocence -- Trilogy of Hands -- Trilogy of Doubt -- Doubtful -- Doubtful Profile -- Three-Quarter View -- Trilogy of Death -- Trilogy of Tears and Smiles -- III: Oblique Strategies -- Trust in the You of Now -- Turn It Upside Down -- Emphasize the Flaws -- Only a Part, Not the Whole -- The Most Important Is Most Easily Forgotten -- Give Way to Your Worst Impulse -- Accretion -- Not Building a Wall but Making a Brick -- Do We Need Holes? -- Repetition Is a Form of Change -- Do Nothing for as Long as Possible |
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Where's the Edge? -- Honor Thy Error as a Hidden Intention -- Overtly Resist Change -- Be Extravagant -- Use Filters -- Reverse -- Don't Break the Silence -- IV: From the Dream Notebooks -- My Life as an Open Air Temple -- A Dream Is One-Sixtieth Part of Prophecy -- I Have Dreamt a Dream and I Do Not Know What It Is -- A Good Dream Should Be Kept in Mind so It Will Be Fulfilled -- There Is No Dream Without Frivolity -- All Dreams Follow the Mouth -- A Dream That Has Not Been Interpreted Is Like a Letter That Has Not Been Read -- It May Be Spring -- The Water Where I Have Not Swum |
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Mitzvah at Gordon Beach -- To the One Who Tames -- To the Ram's Horn I Cannot Sound -- Two Stones -- Notes -- Acknowledgments |
| Summary |
Imperfect Present is a book for our current moment. By confronting the urgencies of daily life, from questions of identity to sexual abuse to racial unrest to the ubiquity of plastic, these poems investigate ways to sustain ourselves in our fraught public and private lives. With her characteristic linguistic play, Sharon Dolin illuminates some of the most personal concerns that resonate throughout our culture and in ourselves, such as error, despair, uncertainty, and doubt. In sections that deploy the lens of art, the Oblique Strategies of Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt, and meditations on dreams and spirituality, Imperfect Present provides a panoply of approaches that grapple with the complexity of now |
| Analysis |
American Literature |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 10, 2022) |
| Subject |
Poetry, Modern -- 21st century.
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Jewish poetry.
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POETRY / General
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Jewish poetry
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Poetry, Modern
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| Genre/Form |
poetry.
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Poetry
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Poetry.
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Poésie.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780822988878 |
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0822988879 |
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