Troy Jollimore

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Earthly Delights: PoemsPaperback, 14 September 2021

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Part of Series
Princeton Contemporary Poets
Part of Series
Princeton Contemporary Poets, 158
Print Length
128 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Date Published
14 Sep 2021
ISBN-10
069121882X
ISBN-13
9780691218823

Description

From the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, a new collection of philosophical, elegiac, and wry meditations on film, painting, music, and poetry itself

Earthly Delights begins with an invocation to the muse and ends with the departure of Odysseus from Ithaca. In between, Troy Jollimore's distinguished new collection ranges widely, with cinematic and adventurous poems that often concern artistic creation and its place in the world. A great many center on films, from Andrei Tarkovsky's Nostalghia to Paul Thomas Anderson's Boogie Nights. The title poem reflects on Hieronymus Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights, while another is an elegy for Gord Downie, the lead singer and lyricist for the cult rock band The Tragically Hip. Other poems address various forms of political insanity, from the Kennedy assassination to today's active shooter drills, and philosophical ideas, from Ralph Waldo Emerson's musings on beauty to John D. Rockefeller's thoughts on the relation between roses and capitalist ethics. The book's longest poem, "American Beauty," returns repeatedly to the film of that name, but ultimately becomes a meditation on the Western history of making and looking, and--like many of the book's poems--an elegy for lost things.

Product Details

Author:
Troy Jollimore
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
14 September 2021
Dimensions:
23.19 x 15.6 x 1.6 cm
ISBN-10:
069121882X
ISBN-13:
9780691218823
Language:
English
Location:
Princeton
Pages:
128
Weight:
249.48 gm

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