Curves and Angles
Poems
Published on 25. March 2009
96 pages
978-0-307-49469-6 (ISBN)
Description
Brad Leithauser's "most satisfying collection in years” (Library Journal), a bracing poetic journey that begins in a warm, peopled world and concludes in a cooler and more private place, embracing love of the human and natural world in all its states.
More details
Other editions
Additional editions
Brad Leithauser
Curves and Angles
Book
11/2006
Alfred A. Knopf
€42.08
Article exhausted; check different version
Person
Brad Leithauser was born in Detroit and graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Law School. He is the author of five novels, a novel in verse, four previous volumes of poetry, a collection of light verse, and a book of essays. Among his many awards and honors are a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Ingram Merrill Grant, and a MacArthur Fellowship. An Emily Dickinson Senior Lecturer in the Humanities at Mount Holyoke College, he lives with his wife in Amherst, Massachusetts. In 2005, the president of Iceland inducted him into the Order of the Falcon for his writings about Nordic literature.
Content
- Intro
- Other Books By This Author
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Author's Note
- Part 1 - Curves
- Chapter 1 - City Album: A Wet Afternoon
- Chapter 2 - Little School in A Jungle
- Chapter 3 - Not Lunar Exactly
- Chapter 4 - Midsummer, Midwest
- Chapter 5 - The Day's Announcement
- Chapter 6 - Son
- Chapter 7 - From Here to There
- Chapter 8 - Lorenz
- Chapter 9 - A Good List
- Chapter 10 - Do You Need A Menu?
- Chapter 11 - The Man in the Airport Bar
- Chapter 12 - Routes
- Chapter 13 - A Teenage Couple
- Chapter 14 - Mock Argument
- Chapter 15 - Bread and Cheese
- Chapter 16 - The Waterclock and the Hourglass
- Chapter 17 - A Science-Fiction Writer of the Fifties
- Part 2 - A Borges Interlude: Three Adaptations
- Chapter 18 - Rain
- Chapter 19 - Poem Written In A Copy of Beowulf
- Chapter 20 - Old Soldier
- Part 3 - Angles
- Chapter 21 - The Arachnid's Triumph: A One-Act
- Chapter 22 - Emigrant's Story
- Chapter 23 - Nightfall
- Chapter 24 - An Old Stump
- Chapter 25 - Open Arrival
- Chapter 26 - Four from the Forest Floor
- Chapter 27 - Cosmogonies
- Chapter 28 - Long Hike in Mexico
- Chapter 29 - Equatorial Triptych
- Chapter 30 - Closing Argument
- Chapter 31 - New Tenant
- Chapter 32 - Sunny Elegy
- Chapter 33 - Over Labrador
- Chapter 34 - North-Looking Room
- Chapter 35 - Some Ways Along
- Chapter 36 - December, Three A.M.
- Chapter 37 - Death's Door
- Chapter 38 - An Icelandic New Year's Day
- Chapter 39 - 64° North
- Chapter 40 - A Further Foray
- Acknowledgments
- A Note About the Author
- Copyright
