Spectre
By: Mark Lamoureux
Publisher: Black Radish Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York City
Language: eng
Number of pages: 110
ISBN-13: 9780982573112
Subjects: American poetry
Description: "Mark Lamoureux's disturbing and often distinctly American landscpes explore the interface between fantasy and fatalism, magic and machine. In the tradition of Duncan and Spicer, he is a metaphysical poet for our times, when even "the cheerleader's dreams are sinister" and "what was once all Wagner is now/ all Duran Duran." What a pleasure to sift through baroque layers of ornament and debris with a poet of such keen and precise intelligence---one who in dark times "carries a dark lamp."---Elaine Equi"--BOOK JACKET.
Table of contents: title: All Along the Clocktower -- ; title: Black Sun Over Coney Island -- ; title: Suite for 4 Classical Elements -- ; title: Week of the Frog God -- ; title: Jenny Haniver Moon -- ; title: What the Nixie Said -- ; title: Spinning Jenny -- ; title: Lapsang Souchong -- ; title: Intelligent Design -- ; title: Sun in the House of Cancer -- ; title: Family Tree -- ; title: 7 Angels -- ; title: Fortress of Solitude -- ; title: Saturnalia -- ; title: I Like to See it -- ; title: Every Possible Future is Like Iceland -- ; title: Shore Leave -- ; title: Hot Air Balloon Above Bavaria -- ; title: Wind Farm -- ; title: Canticle for Samhain -- ; title: Table Talk Flying Saucer -- ; title: Bride of Frankenstein's Birthday -- ; title: Theorem: Salt Becomes a Dynamo -- ; title: How I Spent my Summer Vacation -- ; title: The Archive is a Sad Robot -- ; title: Song for an Invisible Lover -- ; title: Small Rooms -- ; title: Pomegranate Republic -- ; title: Zeitgeist Cerebus -- ; title: Memorandum Concerning the New Emperor -- ; title: Tsotchke Idol -- ; title: Alloy Villanelles -- ; title: Carousel Horse -- ; title: Hard Times at the Carnival -- ; title: Deaf Drive -- ; title: Cautionary Fable -- ; title: The Dressmaker -- ; title: Armillaria Ostoyae -- ; title: Lamblion -- ; title: The Oaks -- ; title: Vintage -- ; title: Grail of Absence -- ; title: Scrimshaw Tango -- ; title: Come on Chameleon -- ; title: Imaginary Ownership -- ; title: World of Fools -- ; title: Connecticut -- ; title: The Madeira Drinkers -- ; title: Requiem -- ; title: Legacy -- ; title: Acheron Census -- ; title: Reflexive -- ; title: Blue Heaven -- ; title: Black Swan -- ; title: Monican -- ; title: How Good is Your Kung Fu? -- ; title: Tontine -- ; title: Ancestor Story -- ; title: Self Portrait as a Talking Snowman -- ; title: Self Portrait as a Weepul -- ; title: Self Portrait as Pac-Man -- ; title: Belle Epoxy -- ; title: Revisionist History Sweetheart.