The Falling Hour
Published on 8. May 1997
129 pages
978-0-8229-7944-9 (ISBN)
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The Falling Hour is the fifth collection of poetry by David Wojahn, one of the most highly regarded poets of his generation. It is a fiercly elegiac and even apocalyptic book, culminating in a series of blistering elegies written after the sudden death of Wojahn's wife, the poet Linda Hull. In these poems, the process of mourning and lamentation is examined in all of its intricacy, rage, and sorrowful ambivalence.
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The Falling Hour
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05/1997
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David Wojahn is the author of Spirit Cabinet, The Falling Hour, Late Empire, Mystery Train, Glassworks, Icehouse Lights, Interrogation Palace, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and World Tree, winner of the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize and the Poet's Prize. He is the recipient of four Pushcart Prizes, the William Carlos Williams Book Award, the Carole Weinstein Poetry Prize, the George Kent Memorial Prize, and the O. B. Hardison Jr. Poetry Prize, among other honors. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Wojahn is professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University and also teaches in the MFA in Writing Program of the Vermont College of Fine Arts.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- I
- Rajah in Babylon
- Excavation Photo
- Hey, Joe
- After Wittgenstein
- Wreckage
- Ode to 196 -
- Among the Joshua Trees
- In Memory of Primo Levi
- 4750 Cottage Grove
- Speech Grille
- Border Crossings
- Five Eschatologies
- Truth-Taking Stare
- II
- The Shades
- III
- The Nightingales
- IV
- Elegy and Perisphere
- V
- Print Made with Inverted Camera in Situ
- God of Journeys and Secret Tidings
- Footage and Dirge
- Dirge Sung with Marianne Faithfull
- Death and the Maiden
- Ode
- Lulu in Xanadu
- Study Skin and Amberson
- Stammer
- Tractate for Doctor Tourette
- VI
- Ghost Supper
- Dirge and Descent
- Appetite: Black Paintings
- Oracle
- Gallery IX: A Carved Bone Ring of Cormorants
- Before the Words
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
