
Picture Window
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Here, too, are striking verses about the passage of time as recorded by the movement of light and shadow across a surface, whether it be the face of a clock or the enclosed walls of a Hopper painting. Throughout, Hollander delights us with mirrors, palindromes, and strange and surprising reversals that keep the mind ever alert with the challenge "to make words be themselves, taking time out / From all the daily work of meaning, to / Make picture puzzles of what they're about.”
Donna Seaman has written of John Hollander, "His wise and robustly complex poems span the mind like stone aqueducts or canyon-crossing railroad bridges—awesome works of knowledge and craft, art and devotion.” In this exciting new volume, Hollander shows once again the reach of his poetic imagination.
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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
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- I
- By Heart
- In Transit
- Those Fields
- And Most of all, I Wanna Thank .
- Considered Speech
- Entwining
- Columnar
- Picture Window
- Light Glass Still Life
- Rooms by the Sea
- Ruined Tower
- Names on Trees
- Song, Con Sordino
- Hope
- En Revenant D'auvergne
- The Institute
- II
- Horace, Ode II.14
- Ubi Sunt, Etc.
- To Donald Hall
- On a Stanza of H. Leyvick
- Commemorative Stanzas
- Four Timepieces
- A Mutual Flame
- Semiology
- Sue you Have Seen
- Oggi
- III
- Open in Close
- An Old Palindrome
- Tailor-Made
- A Rainbow for Lunch
- To Andrew Forge, on Receipt of his Wash Drawing, Life-Size, of the Huge Dobsonfly (Corydalus cornutus)
- Black Mask
- Fooh-Fooh
- IV
- Horace, Ode I.9
- To an Old Latin Teacher
- Where it Comes From
- A Kind of Fear
- From a Palace Diary
- Three Sisters
- Tales of Three Brothers
- Dead Animals
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Other Books by This Author
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