The Resource Night school, Carl Dennis
Night school, Carl Dennis
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The item Night school, Carl Dennis represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library.This item is available to borrow from 2 library branches.
Resource Information
The item Night school, Carl Dennis represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 2 library branches.
- Summary
- "The poems in Carl Dennis's thirteenth collection are informed by an engagement with a world not fully accessible to the light of day, a world that can only be known with help from the imagination, whether we focus on ourselves, on people close at hand, or on the larger society. Only if we imagine alternatives to our present selves, Dennis suggests, can we begin to grasp who we are. Only if we imagine what is hidden from us about the lives of others can those lives begin to seem whole. Only if we can conceive of a social world different from the one we seem to inhabit can we begin to make sense of the country we call our own. To read these poems is to find ourselves invited into a dialogue between what is present and what is absent that proves surprising and enlarging"--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xii, 88 pages
- Contents
-
- To earth
- An actress
- My defender
- Table
- A proposal
- Clippers
- Power
- A friend and a book
- A history of nagging
- In the moment
- A stand of cottonwood
- Not description
- A letter
- A typescript
- At the graveyard
- Emily's birthday
- On the beach
- Crosstown bus
- To the people of 2060
- Favorite god
- A traveler from Altruria
- Fast food
- When
- Doe
- Nothing
- Wallace Siner
- Tents and houses
- Hunters
- Evening with Washington
- Finding Thoreau
- Mrs. Gottlieb's course in world literature
- Help from an old critic
- Bad days, good days
- At Emily Dickinson's house
- Babel
- On the radio
- Another Horatio
- Old composer
- To Whitman
- A landscape
- Old story
- Know yourself
- Joseph's work
- Blind guest
- Two lives
- In the woods
- Isbn
- 9780143132356
- Label
- Night school
- Title
- Night school
- Statement of responsibility
- Carl Dennis
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "The poems in Carl Dennis's thirteenth collection are informed by an engagement with a world not fully accessible to the light of day, a world that can only be known with help from the imagination, whether we focus on ourselves, on people close at hand, or on the larger society. Only if we imagine alternatives to our present selves, Dennis suggests, can we begin to grasp who we are. Only if we imagine what is hidden from us about the lives of others can those lives begin to seem whole. Only if we can conceive of a social world different from the one we seem to inhabit can we begin to make sense of the country we call our own. To read these poems is to find ourselves invited into a dialogue between what is present and what is absent that proves surprising and enlarging"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Dennis, Carl
- Dewey number
-
- 811.6
- 811/.54
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3554.E535
- LC item number
- A6 2018
- Literary form
- poetry
- Series statement
- Penguin poets
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
- POETRY
- Label
- Night school, Carl Dennis
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- To earth
- An actress
- My defender
- Table
- A proposal
- Clippers
- Power
- A friend and a book
- A history of nagging
- In the moment
- A stand of cottonwood
- Not description
- A letter
- A typescript
- At the graveyard
- Emily's birthday
- On the beach
- Crosstown bus
- To the people of 2060
- Favorite god
- A traveler from Altruria
- Fast food
- When
- Doe
- Nothing
- Wallace Siner
- Tents and houses
- Hunters
- Evening with Washington
- Finding Thoreau
- Mrs. Gottlieb's course in world literature
- Help from an old critic
- Bad days, good days
- At Emily Dickinson's house
- Babel
- On the radio
- Another Horatio
- Old composer
- To Whitman
- A landscape
- Old story
- Know yourself
- Joseph's work
- Blind guest
- Two lives
- In the woods
- Control code
- ocn994575121
- Dimensions
- 23 cm.
- Extent
- xii, 88 pages
- Isbn
- 9780143132356
- Lccn
- 2017041780
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)994575121
- Label
- Night school, Carl Dennis
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- To earth
- An actress
- My defender
- Table
- A proposal
- Clippers
- Power
- A friend and a book
- A history of nagging
- In the moment
- A stand of cottonwood
- Not description
- A letter
- A typescript
- At the graveyard
- Emily's birthday
- On the beach
- Crosstown bus
- To the people of 2060
- Favorite god
- A traveler from Altruria
- Fast food
- When
- Doe
- Nothing
- Wallace Siner
- Tents and houses
- Hunters
- Evening with Washington
- Finding Thoreau
- Mrs. Gottlieb's course in world literature
- Help from an old critic
- Bad days, good days
- At Emily Dickinson's house
- Babel
- On the radio
- Another Horatio
- Old composer
- To Whitman
- A landscape
- Old story
- Know yourself
- Joseph's work
- Blind guest
- Two lives
- In the woods
- Control code
- ocn994575121
- Dimensions
- 23 cm.
- Extent
- xii, 88 pages
- Isbn
- 9780143132356
- Lccn
- 2017041780
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)994575121
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