Reactor

by Vollmer, Judith

• ISBN13: 9780299199449
• ISBN10: 0299199444
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-03-01
• Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Pr

Summary

Reactorgives voice to beloved and ruined American landscapes through extended meditations of an urban mystical wanderer.

Author Biography

Judith Vollmer is professor of English and director of the writing program at the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg. She is the author of three other poetry collections including The Door is Open to the Fire and Level Green, the 1990 winner of the Brittingham Poetry Prize.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. IX
The Coffee Line	p. XI
Yucca Mountain Sequence	p. 3
The Reactor	p. 3
Sedan Crater, 1962-	p. 5
UiA Tunnel: Persephone's Story	p. 7
General Brenda Gives a Press Conference	p. 9
Note & Xeroxed Letter Left in Grotto #8, Yucca Mountain, October 2001	p. 12
Abandoned Camp near Paiute Mesa	p. 14
Note to the Mist	p. 17
Early Snow	p. 19
Spoil Islands	p. 20
Coffee with Narrative	p. 21
On Reading a Fragment from Nuclear Safety Commission Files Explaining the Events of June 30, 1918	p. 25
Valery Larbaud (1881-1957): Images (an imitation)	p. 26
Stephane Mallarme (an imitation) Lying under an Arbor While Dreaming of the Sea	p. 28
Happy Hour at the Pantheon	p. 29
Persephone Returning	p. 33
The Dead Lucia	p. 35
The Moon Replied	p. 37
After Reading the Verses of a Great American Poet	p. 39
The Orange Sea	p. 40
Bruche in Her Summer Kitchen	p. 41
Installation	p. 42
The Legions of Caesar	p. 43
House Spiders	p. 44
To de Beauvoir after Reading One of Several Fashionable Pathobiographies	p. 45
She Kept Me	p. 46
Breakfast without Sweets	p. 48
July Evening with Ancestors	p. 50
Port of Entry	p. 53
Extended Family Genealogy	p. 54
Spill	p. 56
In Praise of Camus at the End of His Century	p. 57
Listening to Birds after a Mild Winter	p. 60
The Eavesdropper	p. 61
Five Wedding Songs	p. 63
The Ice Fall	p. 66
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