University of Utah Press, 2008 Paper: 978-0-87480-934-3 Library of Congress Classification PS3613.C324D47 2008 Dewey Decimal Classification 811.6
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
The Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry was inaugurated in 2003 to honor the late poet, a nationally recognized writer and a former professor at the University of Utah, and is sponsored by the University of Utah Press and the University of Utah Department of English.
Descartes’ Nightmare is the 2007 prizewinning volume selected by this year’s judge, Cole Swenson, of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Susan McCabe is an associate professor of English at the University of Southern California. Her other books include Cinematic Modernism: Modernist Poetry and Film; Swirl; and Elizabeth Bishop: Her Poetics of Loss. Her poetry has been published in The Kenyon Review, GLQ, and American Poetry Review.
REVIEWS
"A hauntingly unique venture into the mysterious pitfalls of the human psyche."
—The Midwest Book Review
TABLE OF CONTENTS
<h2>Contents</h2>
Sybil
All Night under Cover of Codes
With this undulant coach of green,
with this remembered sleep of thorns
Descartes? Nightmare
By Which I Am
Because We Roll with Our Bones and Tears in Dialect
Repeating Thirty Years? War
Code Orange:
Nightmare under Blood White & Blue
Can?t Say I Didn?t Warn You
In the Stove Room
Hamlet?s Party
Specimen
In the Garden of the Many
After Esther in Bleak House
Lucy Snowe (After Charlotte Bront¿?s Villette)
Rimbaud at the Station
Notebook
Idea for a Book, Lying Open
A Fortnight on a Bridge
Dr. Frankenstein?s Dream
Persephone in Two Parts
Death of the Surf of the Body (for Hart Crane)
Small Town Partly in New York and Partly in Wisconsin
Mesmer
Lecture on Brain Chemistry
Detective Poem
Unfinished Horror Movie
Tomb Seven
Radio Skull
Squid
Angel of the Bottomless Pit
30th Nov--I?m poppy to chrysalis--ember
Notebook
Memory of an Evening Yet to Come
Rue Descartes
Burial
I?m Afraid, Dave
The Feathers I Wore Tomorrow
Descartes? Skull
Notes
Acknowledgments
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University of Utah Press, 2008 Paper: 978-0-87480-934-3
The Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry was inaugurated in 2003 to honor the late poet, a nationally recognized writer and a former professor at the University of Utah, and is sponsored by the University of Utah Press and the University of Utah Department of English.
Descartes’ Nightmare is the 2007 prizewinning volume selected by this year’s judge, Cole Swenson, of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Susan McCabe is an associate professor of English at the University of Southern California. Her other books include Cinematic Modernism: Modernist Poetry and Film; Swirl; and Elizabeth Bishop: Her Poetics of Loss. Her poetry has been published in The Kenyon Review, GLQ, and American Poetry Review.
REVIEWS
"A hauntingly unique venture into the mysterious pitfalls of the human psyche."
—The Midwest Book Review
TABLE OF CONTENTS
<h2>Contents</h2>
Sybil
All Night under Cover of Codes
With this undulant coach of green,
with this remembered sleep of thorns
Descartes? Nightmare
By Which I Am
Because We Roll with Our Bones and Tears in Dialect
Repeating Thirty Years? War
Code Orange:
Nightmare under Blood White & Blue
Can?t Say I Didn?t Warn You
In the Stove Room
Hamlet?s Party
Specimen
In the Garden of the Many
After Esther in Bleak House
Lucy Snowe (After Charlotte Bront¿?s Villette)
Rimbaud at the Station
Notebook
Idea for a Book, Lying Open
A Fortnight on a Bridge
Dr. Frankenstein?s Dream
Persephone in Two Parts
Death of the Surf of the Body (for Hart Crane)
Small Town Partly in New York and Partly in Wisconsin
Mesmer
Lecture on Brain Chemistry
Detective Poem
Unfinished Horror Movie
Tomb Seven
Radio Skull
Squid
Angel of the Bottomless Pit
30th Nov--I?m poppy to chrysalis--ember
Notebook
Memory of an Evening Yet to Come
Rue Descartes
Burial
I?m Afraid, Dave
The Feathers I Wore Tomorrow
Descartes? Skull
Notes
Acknowledgments
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