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Orbit / Arthur Vogelsang.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Pitt poetry seriesPublication details: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2016]Description: 1 online resource (1 PDF (77 pages))Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780822981336
  • 0822981335
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 811.5/4 23
LOC classification:
  • PS3572.O297 O735 2016eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro; Contents; Then; Now; When; Acknowledgments; Verde Valley 1311 AD; 1150 AD; Global Positioning; Two Natives; The Nut; Mandate; Don't Ask; Before 1901; "History Is a Myth Agreed Upon"; Herring Run; Ogden Nash; 1948; "A Mirror One Carries Along a Road"; An Occurrence at ... ; Blood vs. Spirit; Life Is Slightly Different Than You Think It Is; Den; Extinct; Canto Zero; The Plan; Demented Discusses Distinguished; July, Paris; Weekend Retreat; A Letter, Please; In a Fix; Betrayal-Oranges and Apples; My Brain's Storage; Not How It Works; Look; Handled It Just Right; 62 Miles Not 7,926 Miles.
Sp�eculation HasardeuseUpstate; Face It; Scene; Eee Equals Emcee Squared; The Secret Constitution (the Speed of Light); Positive; Incident at La Brea and Sunset; A Wet Desk; Neptune; Black and White; Scalper's Website; The Friends, the Deal, Regional Dialects; Wish; Every Night for Weeks; Wait a Minute, It's Simple.
Summary: Orbit connects the intimate with what is farthest from us, mixing what we can imagine with what is daily and near. Landscapes stretch from stable and fulfilling domestic interiors to the destiny of our sun as an exploding red giant. That dilemma of human fertility and love facing ultimate destruction is orchestrated by the author's provocative voice and coiled lines, which fondle and handle the reader's heart and mind in a bright light. The book insists on connecting the three eras of human experience -- Then, Now, and When -- at every turn. Orbit continues the unique aesthetic of Vogelsang's first five award-winning books through its "oddly direct original persona," its "mind -- prophetic, wild, loony," its "language of surveillance and trembling," and the poems' ability "to find and magnify the emotion suddenly, instantaneously" (comments draw from other poets' reviews.) Vogelsang's new book Orbit is a dialogue between daily life and transcendent vision, insisting on the reality of each.
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Orbit connects the intimate with what is farthest from us, mixing what we can imagine with what is daily and near. Landscapes stretch from stable and fulfilling domestic interiors to the destiny of our sun as an exploding red giant. That dilemma of human fertility and love facing ultimate destruction is orchestrated by the author's provocative voice and coiled lines, which fondle and handle the reader's heart and mind in a bright light. The book insists on connecting the three eras of human experience -- Then, Now, and When -- at every turn. Orbit continues the unique aesthetic of Vogelsang's first five award-winning books through its "oddly direct original persona," its "mind -- prophetic, wild, loony," its "language of surveillance and trembling," and the poems' ability "to find and magnify the emotion suddenly, instantaneously" (comments draw from other poets' reviews.) Vogelsang's new book Orbit is a dialogue between daily life and transcendent vision, insisting on the reality of each.

Print version record.

Intro; Contents; Then; Now; When; Acknowledgments; Verde Valley 1311 AD; 1150 AD; Global Positioning; Two Natives; The Nut; Mandate; Don't Ask; Before 1901; "History Is a Myth Agreed Upon"; Herring Run; Ogden Nash; 1948; "A Mirror One Carries Along a Road"; An Occurrence at ... ; Blood vs. Spirit; Life Is Slightly Different Than You Think It Is; Den; Extinct; Canto Zero; The Plan; Demented Discusses Distinguished; July, Paris; Weekend Retreat; A Letter, Please; In a Fix; Betrayal-Oranges and Apples; My Brain's Storage; Not How It Works; Look; Handled It Just Right; 62 Miles Not 7,926 Miles.

Sp�eculation HasardeuseUpstate; Face It; Scene; Eee Equals Emcee Squared; The Secret Constitution (the Speed of Light); Positive; Incident at La Brea and Sunset; A Wet Desk; Neptune; Black and White; Scalper's Website; The Friends, the Deal, Regional Dialects; Wish; Every Night for Weeks; Wait a Minute, It's Simple.

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