Karl Kirchwey
Autor de Poems of Rome (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series)
Sobre El Autor
Karl Kirchwey is the author of six previous collections of poetry and a translation of Paul Verlaine titled Poems Under Saturn. His essays and reviews have been widely published. He is a professor of English and creative writing at Boston University, and from 2010 through 2013 served as Andrew mostrar más Heiskell Arts Director at the American Academy in Rome. mostrar menos
Obras de Karl Kirchwey
Weeding {poem} 1 copia
Blue {poem} 1 copia
September {poem} 1 copia
In the Garden (2) {poem} 1 copia
A Dagger of Lath {poem} 1 copia
Gout-weed {poem} 1 copia
Siberian Iris {poem} 1 copia
Fireflies {poem} 1 copia
Epigrams on the fig 1 copia
In the Garden (1) {poem} 1 copia
Barnegat Light {poem} 1 copia
A Cement Lawn Statue {poem} 1 copia
Post Holes {poem} 1 copia
In the Garden (3) {poem} 1 copia
Carpe Myrtle {poem} 1 copia
Late Figs {poem} 1 copia
Milkweed {poem} 1 copia
On a Pediment at Ta Prohm {poem} 1 copia
Viagra Nation {poem} 1 copia
A Glass of Water {poem} 1 copia
Lenox Road {poem} 1 copia
New Gulph Road {poem} 1 copia
Wissahickon schist {poem} 1 copia
A wood thrush {poem} 1 copia
Belfagor {poem} 1 copia
U.S. Route 20 {poem} 1 copia
Alaric and Romanus {poem} 1 copia
Amicus {poem} 1 copia
Three Dreams {poem} 1 copia
McGrath Road {poem} 1 copia
Sinister {poem} 1 copia
Fine Work with Pitch and Copper 1 copia
Propofol {poem} 1 copia
Ortho {poem} 1 copia
Sonnet {poem} 1 copia
July 20, 1969 {poem} 1 copia
Alba {poem} 1 copia
Liberty Ice Cream Parlor {poem} 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
Antaeus No. 73/74, Spring 1994 - Who’s Writing This: Notations on the Authorial I {magazine} (1994) — Contribuidor — 5 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1956-02-25
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Ocupaciones
- poet
Miembros
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Premios
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 54
- También por
- 7
- Miembros
- 153
- Popularidad
- #136,480
- Valoración
- 3.6
- Reseñas
- 30
- ISBNs
- 14
This is a rather mixed collection with many works written as prose rather than poetry. The lines between prose and poetry can be blurry at times but most prose poems express imagery and a lyrical sense. Several of the poems in this collection could easily pass for prose or even informal conversation rather than poetry. The collection opens strong with "Thought Experiment." Caesar's last breath of air is still circulating around the earth. In fact, a molecule of that last breath may be in your lungs right now. "Janiculum Passage", although very much written in prose, captures some of the imagery of Rome. The title poem is also present and explains itself in a historical sense.
The collection is hard to classify. It is interesting in its history and descriptions of Rome. I came away feeling that I learned a bit about Rome, ancient to the present. I can't say that I will remember this as poetry or as an informal history or cultural lesson.… (más)