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New and Selected Poems
Published on 30. November 2015
145 pages
978-0-8229-8120-6 (ISBN)
Description
Collected here are poems from Peter Oresick's previous books, beginning with The Story of Glass (1977), and to them are added 36 new poems called Under the Carpathians. His work-known for working class and Catholic themes-probes labor and social history, post-World War II America, Eastern European identity, Eastern Rite Catholicism, and Russian icons and fine art and especially Pittsburgh-born pop art icon Andy Warhol.
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Peter Oresick is a poet whose works include Warhol-o-rama, Definitions, and Working Classics: Poems on Industrial Life. He has taught at Carnegie Mellon University, Chatham University, the University of Pittsburgh, and Emerson College.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Introduction by Lawrence Joseph
- Under the Carpathians
- I.
- Reverse Painting on Glass (Kandinsky)
- The Inspector
- Lviv, or Lwów
- Ruthenia
- The Meeting
- A Message about Numbers
- Morning, Allegheny River
- The Interview
- How Dickens Happens
- Pastoral
- When Icons Weep
- II.
- That Summer
- Angelism
- Therapy
- My Father with Pulp Fiction, 1935
- My Father Who Art in Heaven
- Franklin
- I Can't Hear
- Autumn Evening at the Window with Brushes
- She Whispers
- III.
- To a Museum Guard at Shift Change
- Origins of the Ruthenian
- At the Crypt of the Church of Our Lady of the Veil
- When in 2009 the G20 Summit Convened in Pittsburgh
- What the Hermit Zosimus Said
- Sister Rosaire Kopczenski Enters the Religious Life
- The Old Anarchy
- IV.
- Paper Plates
- I Hiked the Carpathians
- Fired//On My 49th Birthday
- Mary, Mary
- My Mother's Pirohi
- This the Very Coinage of My Brain
- I Love To Sleep Curled
- The Ruthenian Lamb
- from Warhol-O-Rama(2008)
- Andy Warhol for Gods Who Must Be Crazy
- Andy Warhol for Short Attention Spans
- Andy Warhol for Catholics
- Andy Warhol for the FBI
- Googlism for Andy Warhol
- Andy Warhol for the Taj Warhol
- Andy Warhol for the Widow of Andy Warhol
- Andy Warhol for Undergraduates
- Andy Warhol for the Village Voice Classifieds, 1966
- Andy Warhol for Familiar Quotations
- Warhol, Andy for Indexers
- from Definitions(1990)
- The Story of Glass
- One of Many Bars in Ford City, Pennsylvania
- My Father
- Family Portrait, 1933
- Landscape with Unemployed, 1934
- The Annual PPG Pensioners' Picnic
- After the Deindustrialization of America, My Father Enters Television Repair
- The Social Impact of Corporate Disinvestment
- Toward the Heaven of Full Employment
- Now
- Tolstoy in Heaven
- Agnes McGurrin
- The Jeweler
- At a Jewish Cemetery in Pittsburgh
- Pleasure
- About My Son and Hands
- Poem for Hamid
- After the Movement
- Extreme Unction
- Old Shevchenko
- An American Peace
- Acknowledgments
