Glassworks (Pitt Poetry Series) - Hardcover

Wojahn, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0822935538 ISBN 13: 9780822935537

Publisher: University Of Pittsburgh Press, 1987

Synopsis

Poems deal with the past, night, fathers, parenthood, language, war, travel, and religion

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Review:

"Wojahn has a talent which has become distressingly rare: an ability to write about himself and about others with equal conviction and clarity. . . . [He] is a poet in firm possession of his craft, and of a vision which encompasses past loss and future possibility." -- Poetry

250 Bradford
The Anniversary
The Bicycle
Blitz, London, 1944
Census
Cool Nights Of October
Dark-house Spearing
Dates, For Example
Fire Story
A Game Of Croquet
Glassworks At Saratoga
The Last Couples Leaving The Green Dolphin Bar
Les Enfants Du Paradis
Little Orgonon
Lot's Wife
The Paris Cinema
Particular Words
Past The Dark Arroyo
Pentecost
Porch Lights
Riding The Empire Builder, 1948
Santorini
'satin Doll'
Shadow Girl
Song Of The Burning
Starlings
Steam
The Third Language
This Journey On Bach's Birthday
This Moment
The Truth
The World Of Donald Evans
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

From Library Journal:

Wojahn's Icehouse Lights ( LJ 4/1/82) won the Yale Younger Poets Prize; in Glassworks , he continues to explore the past, his own and others', through old photos, anniversaries, art, memory"the postures of solitude." Wojahn delineates his world into those who "believe in words" and those who prefer silence; into one's life and one's perception of it. His best poems "evoke . . . / words beyond the absence of words." Yet, while memory might be transformed ("how the smallest detail/ changes memory to distance"), his feelings and voice can also be remote and uncompelling. What further undercuts is a tendency to assume a presumptuous tone: "because today/ I am far from your death, let me/ be far from my own." This is disappointing and detracts from the intelligence and ambition throughout the collection. Robert Hudzik, P.L. of Cincinnati & Hamilton Cty.
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About this edition

• Publisher: University Of Pittsburgh Press
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0822935538
• ISBN 13: 9780822935537
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 67