
The Fraud of Good Sleep
Catherine Theis(Author)
Salt Publishing
Will be published approx. on 15. November 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
80 pages
978-1-84471-879-5 (ISBN)
Description
The Fraud of Good Sleep is a book of "serious humanist" poems. Theis's poems combine a stunning, classical rigor with a passionate madness that is utterly contemporary and surprising. Charting the magic arc of a modern love story on a banjo string or through birch-white epistles left behind at a deserted campsite, these poems engage in the oblivion of snow, intoxicants, and broken-heartedness since living includes loving where "destruction be our lot." It's a place where fortunes are told: "Degenerate fruit and burned apple wood. / The impure equals the fertile plain." From prose poems and extended lyric sequences to translations and fragments, this book attempts to enfold the living past into the insane present. Or, what you might call "the wild hunt to baptize the dead."
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Illustrations
Not illustrated
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 5 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-84471-879-5 (9781844718795)
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Person
Born in 1977 in New York, Catherine Theis grew up outside Chicago and spent her summers in Sicily with her family. She attended the University of Vermont where she received a Rubin Writer Award which allowed her to take graduate courses in creative writing at Hollins University. While in college, she studied at the University of Padua, Italy, and received a Buckham Scholarship Award to study at the University at Kent in England.
Content
Contents
Pacific
Basia Mille
To Sweets (FRENTIC):
Pilgrim
Book of You: Read My Lips
Unlived
Priamel
Martial
Time for Now
The Mock Florida Lectures
At the Corner of Chestnut and Fourth
The Phainetai (He Seems to Me) Fragment
The Fraud of Good Sleep
My First Valentine
Direction
Heads or Tails
Blood in the Food in the Belly
Paradise Sauna
Banjo Tune
The Possibility of a Sacred Wood
Duchampian Eyes on the Metal-Made Chair
No Small Smell
Remedies
Irene
Provisions
Kent
Compliance
Intimacy
Notes
Pacific
Basia Mille
To Sweets (FRENTIC):
Pilgrim
Book of You: Read My Lips
Unlived
Priamel
Martial
Time for Now
The Mock Florida Lectures
At the Corner of Chestnut and Fourth
The Phainetai (He Seems to Me) Fragment
The Fraud of Good Sleep
My First Valentine
Direction
Heads or Tails
Blood in the Food in the Belly
Paradise Sauna
Banjo Tune
The Possibility of a Sacred Wood
Duchampian Eyes on the Metal-Made Chair
No Small Smell
Remedies
Irene
Provisions
Kent
Compliance
Intimacy
Notes