Into the Ruins

by Glaysher, Frederick

• ISBN13: 9780967042121
• ISBN10: 0967042127
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-08-01
• Publisher: Earthrise Pr

Summary

Frederick Glaysher's Into the Ruins confronts much of the human experience left out of the balance by postmodern poetry, often compared to the Alexandrians and the Neoterics, when writers similarly concentrated on the minor themes of personal life, while ignoring the challenging experience of the public realm. Suffused with a uniquely global tragic vision, Into the Ruins has its gaze fixed firmly on the 21st Century.

Author Biography

Frederick Glaysher has published more than a dozen reviews, poems, and literary essays. As a poet-critic, his literary essay "A Poet Looks at Saul Bellow's Soul" appears in Saul Bellow and the Struggle at the Center.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
I
The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters	3	(1)
Midnight Visitors	4	(1)
The Pit of Darkness	5	(1)
Danse Macabre	6	(1)
Locusts	7	(2)
Camp II	9	(1)
Gulag Wayfarers	10	(1)
Oracle Bones	11	(1)
Heartland America	12	(3)
II
Into the Ruin	15	(5)
Old Baltimore	20	(1)
Rodin's Gates of Hell	21	(3)
Hibakusha Nightmare	24	(1)
Advent of the Beast	25	(1)
Raskolnikov's Dream	26	(1)
To the New City	27	(2)
Long Journey Through Night	29	(1)
The Crowned Maitreya	30	(2)
Carnelian Blemish	32	(1)
Leader of the People	33	(2)
Vignette	35	(1)
Chairman of the Board	36	(2)
At a Mass Grave	38	(1)
Wild Goose Pagodas	39	(4)
III
A Conversation on the Forum	43	(4)
Mud-Wrestlers	47	(1)
Derrida in Doubt	48	(1)
The Looking-Glass	49	(4)
IV
Elijah Lovejoy	53	(1)
Eleanor Roosevelt	54	(1)
Albert Einstein	55	(1)
Dag Hammarskjld	56	(1)
Homage to Mark Tobey	57	(3)
Elegy for Robert Hayden	60	(3)
V
To Penelope	63	(1)
Intimations	64	(1)
Kagi	65	(1)
Basic Training	66	(1)
A Visit to Aunt Amy's	67	(1)
Leaving the Old Country	68	(1)
The Dream	69	(1)
The Dark Wood	70	(1)
Chamber Music	71