Emeritus Poems

by Cox, Dr. Brian

• ISBN13: 9781857545449
• ISBN10: 1857545443
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-04-01
• Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd.

Summary

Written with a fresh and liberated perspective, this collection of poems is dedicated to writers and artists Cox admires: Saul Bellow, Anton Chekhov, Vincent Van Gogh, and Walter Benjamin. Particularly influenced by the intoxicating presence of the physical world, this work explores all the senses and what one critic called "anticipatory elegy, " the accepted knowledge of change and loss. While acknowledging the inevitable change and decay in life, his poems maintain a freshness of a writer set free in a world that before constrained him.

Table of Contents

Emeritus	9	(2)
Humberside Funeral	11	(1)
Heron	12	(1)
Saul Bellow	13	(1)
A Bullet at the Wedding	14	(2)
Cape of Good Hope	16	(1)
Castleton	17	(1)
Liverpool Cathedrals	18	(2)
Kinder Trespass	20	(2)
Dervish	22	(1)
Rebirth in Cyprus	23	(2)
Athos in Paphos	25	(2)
Lanzarote	27	(2)
Welbeck Abbey, 1948	29	(2)
Saturday Late in Manchester	31	(1)
Musee d'Orsay	32	(2)
Wheelchair Dancers	34	(1)
Journey to Simla	35	(1)
Amis and Larkin	36	(1)
Traffic	37	(1)
Lyme Lady	38	(1)
Sad Song	39	(1)
Fishes and ladders	40	(1)
Hysterectomy	41	(2)
Signs	43	(1)
Waiting	44	(1)
Van Gogh in Holland	45	(1)
Impressions of Zola	46	(3)
A Chekhov Tale	49	(2)
Water Benjamin, 1940	51	(1)
Autun in the Middle Ages	52	(1)
Quinta del Sordo	53	(1)
The Grand Hotel, Taiwan	54