In Darwin's room
By: Debora Greger
Series: Penguin poets; Penguin poets
Publisher: Penguin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 107
ISBN-13: 9780143131311
Subjects: Science; Art; Poetry; American poetry
Description: "In her tenth volume of poetry, Debora Greger looks outward from the broadmindedness of the interior. Whether she finds herself in Venice, in London, or young again in the sagebrush desert of her childhood, the reader may feel Greger is both there and not there--her landscapes are haunted by memory, even in the act of experience. Not shying from the raw or savage in life, not ignoring the small moments of salvation or grace, she finds in every room an entrance to another world. Darwin's college quarters prove not far from his cabin on the Beagle. A dress shop in Virginia reveals itself a Federal parlor through which a battle of the Civil War was fought. Returning to old scenes with a new eye, Greger proves herself a poet of quiet cunning, of grand scenes and small awakenings"--
Table of contents: title: In the museum of recent time --; title: The last dodo of Iowa --; title: On first looking into Darwin's microscope --; title: Expression of emotion in man and insects --; title: In Darwin's room --; title: To a mockingbird by the Rappahannock --; title: On first looking into Chapman's Flora --; title: Keats to a young poet of the seventies --; title: From The Britanniad --; title: Flora Americana --; title: Elegy on the far bank --; title: Windy ode --; title: Elegy for an English teacher --; title: The war after the war --; title: Surplus poem --; title: My first museum --; title: My alter constructed from memory --; title: My brief reign --; title: Prelude and fugue for desert winds --; title: The later martyrs --; title: To myself, then --; title: Double self-portrait, pinned together --; title: The family silence --; title: Eurydice in Florida --; title: The scholar's rock --; title: The Monet returns from its travels --; title: Against Florida --; title: To a glass lizard --; title: By a pond on a muggy evening --; title: Complaint of the moon in the provinces --; title: Today's meditation: the sadness of the subtropics --; title: Stopping by the woods during bowhunting season --; title: Musica Mundana --; title: A classroom in hell --; title: To a redbud --; title: Elegy for a carpenter's carpenter --; title: The way water does --; title: Outside of paradise --; title: Complaint of the rain in English --; title: Theory of the leisure class --; title: Nocturne for amphibian voice --; title: To and Oriental poppy in an easterly breeze --; title: To the one who wore the world's oldest shirt --; title: The ark in the window --; title: England in the Dark Ages --; title: Address of the rat upon winter solstice --; title: A walk through the Ice Age --; title: Raw ode --; title: On being fiftysomething --; title: Romeo, the morning after --; title: To a book in a window.