The Cartographer's Melancholy

by Axelrod, David

• ISBN13: 9781597660082
• ISBN10: 1597660086
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-11-30
• Publisher: Carnegie Mellon Univ Pr

Summary

In language extraordinarily lean and fresh, Axelrod suggests what it would be like to be truly alive to the nuance of events and to the declarations of those who are either in or out of power. The Cartographer's Melancholy is an insightful and moving guide to Axelrod's distinctive emotional terrain.

Author Biography

David Axelrod is a past recipient of fellowships from Oregon Literary Arts, and the winner of the Carolyn Kizer Poetry Award, and the Kay Deeter Poetry Prize. A Professor of English at Eastern Oregon University, currently he is living and teaching in Ludwigsburg, Germany

Table of Contents

I Tiled Mosaic	2	(6)
II Chronicles of the Withering State
A Minor Contemporary (On the Editor of the Chronicles)	8	(24)
1 Preludium 1984	9	(1)
2 The Consolations of Reverend Malthus	10	(1)
3 First Interrogation	11	(1)
4 Of the Miraculous	12	(1)
5 Beethoven	13	(1)
6 November 1989	14	(1)
7 From the Anthology of the Last Republic (I)	15	(1)
8 Tourism (I)	16	(1)
9 The Imperium (I)	17	(1)
10 The Imperiuin (II)	18	(1)
11 Tourism (II)	19	(1)
12 From the Anthology of the Last Republic (II) (a fragment)	20	(1)
13 Of Attack	21	(1)
14 The Opposition (I)	22	(1)
15 In the Bunker (the Movie)	23	(1)
16 The Opposition (II)	24	(1)
17 Letter to the Editor	25	(1)
18 From the Anthology of the Last Republic (III) (a fragment)	26	(1)
19 Romantic Ode	27	(1)
20 A Pedagogic Parable	28	(1)
21 Whatever Happened to the Old Revolution	29	(1)
22 In the New World	30	(1)
23 From the Anthology of the Last Republic (IV) (a fragment)	31	(1)
Crooked Light (On the Archeological Discoveries from the Last Republic)	32	(2)
III
North	34	(1)
Millennial Portrait, December 31, 1999	35	(1)
From the Book of Esther	36	(2)
David to Bathsheba	38	(2)
One-Hundred Spiraling Stairs	40	(1)
Cleansing	41	(1)
An Offering	42	(1)
Fert-Spiel Weise	43	(1)
Tekmerion	44	(4)
IV The Cartographer's Melancholy	48	(14)
Havens	50	(1)
Voyeurism	51	(1)
Gnosis	52	(2)
A Heroic Pose	54	(2)
A Flemish Jay	56	(1)
Persieds	57	(1)
Of Water	58	(1)
And the Pursuit of Happiness	59	(3)
V
Indirections	62