Bibliograph

Little elegies for sister Satan, Michael Palmer

Type

Label

Little elegies for sister Satan, Michael Palmer

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

poetry

Main title

Little elegies for sister Satan

Oclc number

1201298221

Responsibility statement

Michael Palmer

Series statement

New Directions paperbook, 1500

Summary

"Little Elegies for Sister Satan presents searingly beautiful new poems by Michael Palmer, "the foremost experimental poet of his generation, and perhaps of the last several generations" (citation for The Poetry Society of America's Wallace Stevens Award). Grappling with our dark times and our inability to stop destroying the planet or to end our endless wars, Palmer offers a counterlight of wit (poetry was dead again / they said again), as well as the glow of wonder. In polyphonic passages, voices speak from a decentered place, yet are rooted in the whole history of culture that has gone before: "When I think of 'possible worlds,' I think not of philosophy, but of elegy. And impossible worlds. Resistant worlds.""--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Little elegies for sister Satan -- World enough -- Midnights

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