In the Blue Pharmacy Essays on Poetry and Other Transformations

by Boruch, Marianne

• ISBN13: 9781595340115
• ISBN10: 1595340114
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-04-19
• Publisher: Trinity University Press

Summary

"Sixteen essays on poets and poetry, the writing life, and how themagination works with mystery and surprise in a variety of poets fromlizabeth Bishop to Theodore Roethke"--Provided by publisher.

Author Biography

Marianne Boruch is the author of five poetry collections and the essay collection Poetry’s Old Air. She has published poems and essays widely in the Georgia Review, the American Poetry Review, the Nation, and other magazines. She teaches in the M.F.A. Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College and in the Department of English at Purdue University, and lives in Purdue, Indiana.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Line and Room	1	(18)
Decoys	19	(18)
Williams and the Bomb	37	(16)
Poets in Cars	53	(22)
Edson's Head	75	(6)
The Shape of His Melancholy	81	(6)
Three Spirits	87	(6)
Becoming ``Epithalamion''	93	(8)
Rhetoric and Mystery	101	(6)
Two Veils	107	(8)
Original Shell	115	(8)
The End of a Century	123	(8)
Worlds Old and New	131	(20)
Bishop's Blue Pharmacy	151	(13)
Poetry's Over and Over	164	(19)
The Rage to Reorder	183	(24)
Works Consulted	207	(8)
Index	215