Hands of the saddlemaker / Nicholas Samaras ; foreword by James Dickey.
1992
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Title
Hands of the saddlemaker / Nicholas Samaras ; foreword by James Dickey.
Author
ISBN
0300054572 (cloth)
9780300054576 (cloth)
0300054580 (paper)
9780300054583 (paper)
9780300054576 (cloth)
0300054580 (paper)
9780300054583 (paper)
Published
New Haven : Yale University Press, ©1992.
Copyright
©1992
Language
English
Description
xiii, 59 pages ; 23 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)24376065
Summary
"Nicholas Samaras's Hands of the Saddlemaker, the winning volume in the 1991 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition, was selected from among 710 entries in this annual competition."--BOOK JACKET. "The broad theme of Samaras's poems is the connection between eternal things and the passing world, between our sense of exile and our sense of commonality. Equilibrium between these worlds is achieved only through human feeling, through language. Samaras examines the commonality of experience in diverse international settings--from Byzantium to the cathedrals of technology in the modern cities of America. His language extols the primary delight and purpose of poetry: the music and inventiveness of language, wholly new and transformed, language that is both ancient and modern. Through an intensely personal and visual approach, these poems reveal our lives to us for time to come."--Jacket.
Review
"Nicholas Samaras's Hands of the Saddlemaker, the winning volume in the 1991 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition, was selected from among 710 entries in this annual competition."--BOOK JACKET. "The broad theme of Samaras's poems is the connection between eternal things and the passing world, between our sense of exile and our sense of commonality. Equilibrium between these worlds is achieved only through human feeling, through language. Samaras examines the commonality of experience in diverse international settings--from Byzantium to the cathedrals of technology in the modern cities of America. His language extols the primary delight and purpose of poetry: the music and inventiveness of language, wholly new and transformed, language that is both ancient and modern. Through an intensely personal and visual approach, these poems reveal our lives to us for time to come."--Jacket.
Formatted Contents Note
Foreword / James Dickey
Acknowledgments
I Citizens of Transience
Lost (starting p. 3)
Passport (starting p. 4)
Amnesiac (starting p. 6)
In the Shell of a City Cathedral (starting p. 8)
The Road of One Thousand Trees (starting p. 15)
Spraying the Bees (starting p. 16)
The Persistence of Drones (starting p. 17)
Easter in the Cancer Ward (starting p. 18)
Aubade: Macedonia (starting p. 21)
In the Wake of Exile (starting p. 23)
A Plum Night in Jerusalem, Three A.M. (starting p. 24)
II Keeping the Flag at Zero
Translation (starting p. 27)
What Grandfathers Leave (starting p. 28)
What Continues (starting p. 31)
Tracking the Boars (starting p. 33)
Amphilohios (starting p. 39)
For George While Sleeping (starting p. 41)
The Last Weekend in May (starting p. 42)
III Settling Estates
Returning to Stoneham, Massachusetts (starting p. 47)
Chanters (starting p. 48)
"Forgive the living and the dead." (starting p. 49)
Decade (starting p. 51)
Notes (starting p. 59)
Acknowledgments
I Citizens of Transience
Lost (starting p. 3)
Passport (starting p. 4)
Amnesiac (starting p. 6)
In the Shell of a City Cathedral (starting p. 8)
The Road of One Thousand Trees (starting p. 15)
Spraying the Bees (starting p. 16)
The Persistence of Drones (starting p. 17)
Easter in the Cancer Ward (starting p. 18)
Aubade: Macedonia (starting p. 21)
In the Wake of Exile (starting p. 23)
A Plum Night in Jerusalem, Three A.M. (starting p. 24)
II Keeping the Flag at Zero
Translation (starting p. 27)
What Grandfathers Leave (starting p. 28)
What Continues (starting p. 31)
Tracking the Boars (starting p. 33)
Amphilohios (starting p. 39)
For George While Sleeping (starting p. 41)
The Last Weekend in May (starting p. 42)
III Settling Estates
Returning to Stoneham, Massachusetts (starting p. 47)
Chanters (starting p. 48)
"Forgive the living and the dead." (starting p. 49)
Decade (starting p. 51)
Notes (starting p. 59)
Series
Yale series of younger poets ; v. 87.
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