Landscape With Chainsaw

by Lasdun, James

• ISBN13: 9780393019636
• ISBN10: 0393019632
• Edition: National
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-07-01
• Publisher: W W Norton & Co

Summary

An exuberant and bold series of poems drawing on the poet's life in the Catskill Mountains. Questions of exile and belonging figure prominently, as does the struggle to find a viable relationship with the natural world. In the chainsawthe book's central imageall manner of human traits are reflected with an intense, often comical brilliance.

Author Biography

James Lasdun was born in London and now lives in upstate New York. He has published two previous books of poetry and three collections of short stories, most recently Besieged (Selected Stories), of which the title story was made into a film by Bernardo Bertolucci. He has taught poetry and fiction writing at Princeton University, New York University, and Columbia University, and he is a recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship in poetry

Table of Contents

Locals	13	(2)
American Mountain	15	(7)
Adam	22	(1)
Eve	23	(2)
Returning the Gift	25	(7)
Van Maanan's Star	32	(2)
Chainsaw I	34	(1)
Apostasy	35	(2)
Bullion	37	(2)
Deathmeadow Mountain	39	(2)
Patrol Car, Bear Mountain	41	(3)
The Apostate	44	(3)
Hops	47	(4)
A Tie-dye T-shirt	51	(2)
Black Locust Grove	53	(2)
The Backhoe	55	(4)
Bluestone	59	(2)
Between A and B	61	(1)
Chainsaw II	62	(1)
Property: the Bear	63	(3)
Birch Tree with Chainsaw	66	(3)
Leo Rising	69	(2)
Woodstock	71	(8)
Happy the Man	79