
Figurehead
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Figurehead, a lively, varied, and technically dazzling book, confirms the statement made by Henry Taylor in the Washington Times: "John Hollander revels in technical challenges of unusual severity and complexity, yet most of his poems also have the emotional heft of something worth pausing over and remembering."
One of the most gifted of W. H. Auden's choices for the Yale Series of Younger Poets, Hollander has pursued the wide range and metrical brilliance of Auden's own poetry, so that this new book exhibits both a large compass of subject matter (from philosophical matters to personal narrative) and, as usual, some astonishing meditations on paintings--here, by Charles Sheeler, Rene Magritte, and Edward Hopper. By turns witty, touching, profound, mocking, ingenious, and always clever, Hollander's poems are a joy for the reader.
He is a modern master.
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Mr. Hollander attended Columbia and Indiana Universities and was a Junior Fellow of the Society of Fellows of Harvard University. He taught at Connecticut College and Yale, and was a professor of English at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. In 1990 he received a MacArthur Fellowship. He died in August 2013.
Content
- Intro
- Other Books By This Author
- Title Page
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Dedication
- Chapter 1 - So Red
- Chapter 2 - A Fragment Twice Repaired Sappho, Fragment (Edmonds #43)
- Chapter 3 - Where was When
- Chapter 4 - Las Hilanderas
- Chapter 5 - Arachne's Story
- Chapter 6 - Forget how to Remember how to Forget
- Chapter 7 - Getting from here to There
- Chapter 8 - Across the Board
- Chapter 9 - Variations on A Table-Top
- Chapter 10 - Dickcissel
- Chapter 11 - X's Syndrome
- Chapter 12 - Two Predators
- Chapter 13 - Fancying Things Up for Kenneth Gross
- Chapter 14 - A Shadow of A Great Rock in A Weary Land Isaiah 32.2
- Chapter 15 - The Parade
- Chapter 16 - There or Then
- Chapter 17 - Fire!
- Chapter 18 - Digital
- Chapter 19 - Owl Phi Beta Kappa poem, Harvard,1996
- Chapter 20 - M & M's
- Chapter 21 - Figurehead
- Chapter 22 - An Old Image (Alciati's Emblem #165)
- Chapter 23 - Emblem
- Chapter 24 - Two Glosses on Rene Magritte
- Chapter 25 - Sun in an Empty Room (Edward Hopper)
- Chapter 26 - Erasing A Bad Name
- Chapter 27 - Charles Sheeler's the Artist Looks at Nature (1943)
- Chapter 28 - What the Lovers in the Old Songs Thought
- Chapter 29 - Long After
- Chapter 30 - Ghazal The Shade of the Author of Indian Love Lyrics Speaks For Agha Shahid Ali
- Chapter 31 - Then all Smiles Stopped Together
- Chapter 32 - An Afterword
- Chapter 33 - Early Birds George Moran, 1883-1949
- Chapter 34 - Beach Whispers
- Notes
- A Note About the Author
- Copyright
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