The History Hotel
CavanKerry Press (Verlag)
978-1-933880-98-3 (ISBN)
In his eleventh poetry collection, Baron Wormser offers the wide range of subjects and imaginative approaches that his readers have come to expect. Touching on topics such as the Jewish resistance, Godard films, and the National Football League, The History Hotel opens the door to both political and personal histories. This collection also introduces us to unforgettable characters—we follow alongside speakers as they drive through Kansas, as they memorize Shakespeare sonnets, and as they rehearse a love affair that went south.
As Wormser’s collection reminds us, the historical circumstances that touch, strengthen, or shatter a life are also key to understanding it. We all live in the History Hotel, where love, betrayal, hope, and despair go hand in hand. Showing those entangled hands is the work of these poems—poems that are alive to tradition but consistently inventive along the way.
Baron Wormser is the author of twenty books including novels, a memoir, a book of short stories, and many books of poetry. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. From 2000 to 2005, he served as poet laureate of the state of Maine. He is the founder of the Frost Place Conference on Poetry and Teaching. He currently resides in Montpelier, Vermont.
Brief
I.
Once
Talk
Now and then it rains money
Ode to the Stock Exchange
NFL Poem (Annals of Male Americana)
Counting
The New Wave
Elegy for the Poet Adam Zagajewski
II.
State Song
On a Foreseen Death, August 4, 1962
Dog Is My Co-Pilot
For Raymond Lévy
A Memorable Occasion: Opening the Doors
Aces
Upon the Death of the Actor, Philip Seymour Hoffman, from “Acute Drug Intoxication”
Reasons of State
Sentence
III.
Selfie
Night, Apartment Towers, Manhattan
Two Painters:
1. Hopperesque
2. John Singer Sargent
1910
Venus Aligned with Mars
A Certain Teacher Does Some Banking
The Shuffle
IV.
And You, Thomas Hardy
Two Songs:
1. Outtake from Cymbeline
2. Dylanesque
Say “Uncle”
Self-Portrait with Ball
Ode to Worry
On Empire
Lament for an Accountant (1959)
“When I have seen by time’s fell hand defaced”
V.
Lyric
1893
1. Opium Den
2. Plein Air
The Bodyguard
Herr Plath-Doktor
Recalling Sophocles
“I Have Themistocles the Athenian”
Pandemic, Nursing Home, Wisconsin, November, 2020
The History Hotel
| Erscheinungsdatum | 14.02.2023 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Fort Lee |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 167 x 228 mm |
| Gewicht | 166 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte |
| ISBN-10 | 1-933880-98-8 / 1933880988 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-933880-98-3 / 9781933880983 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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