
Under the Sign
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Ann Lauterbach is one of America's most innovative and provocative poets, acclaimed for her fierce, sensuous and intellectually charged poems. In this, her ninth book of poems, Lauterbach pursues longstanding inquiries into how language forms and informs our understanding of the relation between empirical observation and subjective response; worldly attachment and inwardness; the given and the chosen. The poems set out not so much to find cogent resolutions to these fluid dyads as to open them to the fact of unknowing that is at the core of all human curiosity and desire. A central prose section tracks along a meditative edge, engaging the risky task of opening the mind to the limits of apprehension; the final section evokes, in the figure of the instructor, the essential contemporary question of how information becomes knowledge.
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- Intro
- ALSO BY ANN LAUTERBACH
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- CONTENTS
- Epigraph
- I. GLYPH
- A READING
- TESTING THE WATERS
- GLYPH
- THE TRANSLATOR'S DILEMMA
- ENIGMA OF THE CAT
- TRIPTYCH (VAN EYCK)
- UNTITLED (PORTRAIT)
- LANDSCAPE WITHOUT VIEW
- NIGHT NEWS WITH FAKE ZEBRA
- AFTER NEWTOWN
- UGLY SONNET
- WORLD CUP
- MEANWHILE, STORM
- IL PLEUT
- DOMESTIC MODERNISM
- UTENSIL
- HARBOR SONG
- BASEMENT TAPE
- UNDER THE SIGN
- ALICE IN OCTOBER
- THE TEARS OF EROS
- II. TASK: TO OPEN
- TASK: TO OPEN
- III. DEAR INSTRUCTOR
- UNTITLED (SPOON)
- OF SPIRITS
- LETTER (IN PRAISE OF PROMISCUITY)
- UNTITLED (AGAINST PERFECTION)
- ZERO & A
- A PLAN
- UNTITLED (FATE)
- A FOLD IN TIME
- AT/OR (RAÚL ZURITA)
- UNTITLED (THE DISINHERITED)
- BEAUTY AND CONSOLATION (RICHARD RORTY)
- UNTITLED (THE RIVER)
- UNTITLED (THE NEUTRAL)
- TO THE GIVEN
- CLASSICAL AUGURY
- SOME ELEMENTS OF THE POEM
- SONG OF THE O (EMERSON "CIRCLES")
- About the Author
- PENGUIN POETS
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