Company of Moths PA

by Palmer,Michael

• ISBN13: 9780811216234
• ISBN10: 0811216233
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-05-17
• Publisher: New Directions

Summary

The new collection by America's greatest experimental poet. Michael Palmer has been hailed by John Ashbery as "exemplarily radical" and by The Village Voice as "the most influential avant-gardist working, and perhaps the greatest poet of his generation." His new book, Company of Mothsa collection in four parts, "Stone," "Scale," "Company of Moths," and "Dream"is beautiful, and fierce: "bright archive, sad merriment," "question pursuing question." Palmer, in this new volume for our darkest times, asks, "How will you now read in the dark?"

Table of Contents

1. STONE
And	3	(2)
Of	5	(2)
The Thought	7	(1)
Stone	8	(1)
Untitled (February 2000)	9	(2)
Untitled (July 2000)	11	(2)
The Turn (December 2000)	13	(2)
Company of Moths	15	(2)
Homage	17	(1)
Archive	18	(1)
Burning Deck	19	(1)
Tongue Asleep	20	(3)
2. SCALE
The	23	(1)
So	24	(1)
A	25	(1)
As	26	(1)
Crease	27	(1)
This	28	(1)
But	29	(1)
Soon	30	(5)
3. COMPANY OF MOTHS
Pulse	35	(1)
Letter to a Vagrant	36	(1)
Untitled (Three Days)	37	(1)
Untitled (29 May 02)	38	(1)
Apollinaire the Duck	39	(1)
Arc	40	(2)
The Dream of Narcissus	42	(1)
The Phantom of Liberty	43	(1)
The Triumph of Love	44	(1)
The Merle Asleep	45	(2)
The Words	47	(1)
Sonnet: After Maurice Scève	48	(1)
Este Mundo	49	(2)
Jackal and Falcon	51	(1)
Untitled (October 2002)	52	(1)
Untitled (December 2002)	53	(1)
Untitled (February 2003)	54	(1)
Vamos viver...	55	(1)
The Turn (May 2003)	56	(1)
Una Noche	57	(1)
Hive	58	(1)
But they have fallen	59	(1)
My Lecture	60	(1)
Your Diamond Shoe	61	(1)
Night Gardening	62	(1)
Finisterrae	63	(1)
The Classical Study	64	(5)
4. DREAM
Dream of a Language that Speaks	69