Things Are Disappearing Here Pa

by Northrop,Kate

• ISBN13: 9780892553341
• ISBN10: 0892553340
• Edition: 00
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-04-17
• Publisher: PERSEA

Summary

Disquieting new work from the winner of the 2001 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize. Absence and trespass permeate these poems, in which what has just occurred--or what is about to--is as palpable and ominous as it is unrevealed. In Kate Northrop's finely-wrought verse, children have gone missing, sealed-off passages are discovered, and missing dogs emerge like visions before bounding off again. Northrop has a sixth sense for where the mundane and the uncanny pass too close for comfort--and no place more so than in the book's haunted centerpiece, a visceral rendering of a sixteenth-century Hungarian countess with certain insatiable appetites. Gorgeous and strange, "Things Are Disappearing Here" is an imaginative tour-de-force.

Author Biography

Kate Northrop is Associate Professor of English at West Chester University.

Table of Contents

The dog	p. 3
Female scarecrow	p. 4
The reconstruction team	p. 5
The baby	p. 6
Night, museum garden	p. 7
Lines	p. 8
The striking blondes	p. 10
The first house	p. 11
River park	p. 12
The neighbor	p. 14
Three women	p. 17
The bedroom mirror	p. 21
The visitor	p. 22
Dive	p. 24
October	p. 26
Aspens	p. 27
A glimpse of you, a vision	p. 28
The ghost crab	p. 31
The burglar	p. 32
The countess	p. 33
Museum diorama :	p. 40
Slant, and far across the sea	p. 42
Now over the empty apartment	p. 44
The place above the river	p. 49
Her apology, and lament	p. 50
View of the farm	p. 53
The lovers	p. 54
Things are disappearing here	p. 55
The film	p. 56
Night skiers	p. 57
Sunset city	p. 58
The pure beauties	p. 59
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