World Tree
Published on 20. February 2011
145 pages
978-0-8229-7829-9 (ISBN)
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World Tree is in many respects, David Wojahn's most ambitious collection to date; especially notable is a 25-poem sequence of ekphrastic poems, "Ochre," which is accompanied by a haunting series of drawings and photographs of Neolithic Art and anonymous turn of the last century snapshots.
Wojahn continues to explore the themes and approaches which he is known for, among them the junctures between the personal and political, a giddy mixing of high and pop culture references, and a deep emotional engagement with whatever material he is writing about.
Wojahn continues to explore the themes and approaches which he is known for, among them the junctures between the personal and political, a giddy mixing of high and pop culture references, and a deep emotional engagement with whatever material he is writing about.
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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.
- Scribal: My Mother in the Voting Booth
- August, 1953
- Screensaver: Pharaoh
- Ending with a Quotation from Walden
- Nazim
- Christ at Emmaus
- For the Honorable Wayne LaPierre, President, National Rifle Association
- Self-Portrait Photo of Rimbaud with Folded Arms: Abyssinia, 1883
- Rolltop
- Napping on My Fifty-Third Birthday
- Quicken
- Fetish Value
- For Tomas Tranströmer
- II.
- Another Epistle to Frank O'Hara
- Self-Portrait as Sock Puppet
- Ode to Black 6
- Mixtape to Be Brought to Her in Rehab
- Jimmie Rodgers's Last Blue Yodel, 1933
- For Willy DeVille
- The Apotheosis of Charlie Feathers
- World Tree
- III.
- Ochre
- IV.
- Mudlark Shuffle
- Freshwater Bay
- Letter to Eadweard Muybridge
- In the Domed Stadium
- Nocturne: Newark Airport
- A Decorated Ghost Dance Shirt
- Visiting Dugan
- Web Prayer for Milosz
- Warren Zevon, Johnny Cash
- Block Letters
- Sepulchre
- Talismanic
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
