The Man Who Sleeps in My Office

by Jason Sommer

• ISBN13: 9780226768052
• ISBN10: 0226768058
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-04-01
• Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr

Summary

With grace and style, Jason Sommer considers how to live in the wake of history among those who are indelibly marked by it.

Author Biography

Jason Sommer is professor of English and Poet-in-Residence at Fontbonne University in St. Louis, Missouri. He is the author of two books of poems, most recently Other People's Troubles, published by the University of Chicago Press, which was honored with the Society for Midland Authors award for poetry. Sommer also received a Whiting Writers' Award in 2001.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
What They Saw	3	(2)
Visiting the Camp	5	(4)
Reign	9	(3)
Robert and the Same Thought	12	(3)
My Mother Making Faces	15	(2)
An Origin of Prayer	17	(4)
Coming	21	(2)
The Man Who Stopped	23	(3)
Pretty Bird	26	(5)
The Man at the Art House	31	(2)
Vision	33	(2)
Air Over Fire	35	(2)
Sacrifice	37	(2)
Elegy	39	(2)
The New People	41	(4)
Civilization	45	(2)
The Man Who Sleeps in My Office	47	(5)
Man Aboard	52	(3)
Legion	55	(2)
Crow of the Galapagos	57	(2)
Lines, in the Reflexive	59	(2)
Pylon Man	61	(2)
The Dog I'll Never Own	63	(3)
The Long Flight Almost Over	66	(3)
His Mother Calling	69	(2)
The Voices	71