Halflife Cl

by O'Rourke,Meghan

• ISBN13: 9780393064759
• ISBN10: 0393064751
• Edition: 00
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-04-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

The insomniac speakers in Halflife are coming of age in a mythical world full of threat and promise. Seeking their true selves amid the fallen cathedrals of America, they speak wryly of destructive love affairs, aesthetic obsession, and encroaching war, but refuse to abandon hope in the power of imagination.

Author Biography

Meghan O'Rourke is a poetry editor at The Paris Review.

Table of Contents

Meditations on a moth	p. 17
Sleep	p. 18
My life as a teenager	p. 19
Descent	p. 20
Peep show	p. 22
Halflife	p. 23
At Tiger Mountain	p. 25
A further sea	p. 27
War lullaby	p. 28
Sandy hook	p. 29
Elegy	p. 30
Still life amongst partial outlines	p. 33
Checklist	p. 49
Epitaph for mother and child	p. 50
Prayer	p. 52
The lighthouse keeper	p. 53
Late mastery	p. 54
Winter palace	p. 55
The climber in the ice	p. 56
Sophomores	p. 57
Anatomy of failure	p. 58
Troy	p. 59
Two sisters	p. 63
Westport cemetery	p. 71
Hunt	p. 75
Stillborn	p. 76
Thermopylae	p. 77
Signal fires	p. 78
Pilgrim's progress	p. 79
Palimpsest	p. 81
Spectacular	p. 82
Inventing a horse	p. 83
Knives of light	p. 85
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