Against the Meanwhile: 3 Elegies (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

Mark Irwin’s boyhood near the nuclear laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, haunts his poetry. This book of three elegies explores the nature of remembered time and space—personal, historical, geological—against the progression of time—evolution, germination, cell division, nuclear fission, the decay of memory and feeling. This, the poet says, is a kind of “fossil record” of science’s impact on the modern world. Entropy (the tendency of atoms towards disorder) becomes a god, a blueprint for possibility. Disorder—frenzy, darkness, chaos—leads to evolution and evolution to order, harmony, and beauty. A star burns and sunlight falls on the world.

Literature & Fiction

Irwin, Mark

Poetry

Wesleyan University Press

The Halo of Desire: Poems

GALILEO PRESS LTD

Pack your pipe with your favorite blend, sit back and enjoy the first thorough exploration of Middle Earth's pipes, tobaccos, and pipe smokers. Pipe Smoking in Middle Earth recounts the way Tolkien literally frames his Saga in smoke rings, then devotes subsequent chapters concerning what can be known and what can reasonably be inferred about pipeweed or leaf (tobacco), the pipes of Middle Earth, smoker's equipage (or accessories), the fellowship of the smoke ring (the pipe smokers of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings) and the art of blowing smoke rings. It concludes with a complete concordance to every reference to pipes, tobaccos, and pipe smokers in Middle Earth.

Pipe Smoking In Middle Earth

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Monster: Distortion, Abstraction, and Originality in Contemporary American Poetry argues that memorable and resonant poetry often distorts form, image, concept, and notions of truth and metaphor. Discussing how changes in electronic communication and artificial notions of landscape have impacted form and content in poetry, Monster redefines the idea of what is memorable and original through a broad range of poets including John Ashbery, Anne Carson, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Forrest Gander, Peter Gizzi, Jorie Graham, Robert Hass, Brenda Hillman, Laura Kasischke, W. S. Merwin, Srikanth Reddy, Donald Revell, Mary Ruefle, Arthur Sze, and James Tate.

Monster: Distortion, Abstraction, and Originality in Contemporary American Poetry (Studies in Modern Poetry)

History & Criticism

Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers

Once When Green: Poems (Juniper Prize for Poetry)

University of Massachusetts Press

Through poems of witness, species and habitat extinction, war, pandemic, technology, history, and race, Mark Irwin's elegant collection of poetry&nbsp;explores the collision between metropolis and wilderness, and engages with forms of spirit that cannot be bound. With the incursion of electronic communication, our connections with one another have been radically distorted.&nbsp;Irwin's poems confront what it means to be human, and how conflict, along with the interface between technology and humanity, can cause us to become orphaned&nbsp;in many different ways. But it is our decision to be joyful.&nbsp; Excerpt from "Letter" Times when we touch hope like the hem of a cloud&nbsp; just as when we touch a body or door, or think&nbsp; of the dead come back, romancing&nbsp; us through the warp of memory, lighting a way by luring . . .

Joyful Orphan: Poems (Test Site Poetry Series)

University of Nevada Press

Quick, Now, Always (American Poets Continuum)

Boa Editions

An astonishing collection of poetry that speaks to America at the end of the 20th century.

BOA Editions, Ltd.

Poetic music for the end of the millennium.

White City (American Poets Continuum)

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Against the Meanwhile: 3 Elegies (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

Against the Meanwhile: 3 Elegies (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

The Halo of Desire: Poems

Pipe Smoking In Middle Earth

Monster: Distortion, Abstraction, and Originality in Contemporary American Poetry (Studies in Modern Poetry)

Once When Green: Poems (Juniper Prize for Poetry)

Joyful Orphan: Poems (Test Site Poetry Series)

Quick, Now, Always (American Poets Continuum)

Quick, Now, Always (American Poets Continuum)

White City (American Poets Continuum)