Recovered Body

by Cairns, Scott

• ISBN13: 9780971748347
• ISBN10: 0971748349
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-12-01
• Publisher: Eighth Day Books

Summary

The fourth collection of poems by Scott Cairns, Recovered Body employs disarming language as it revises and gives new life to a wide range of familiar stories. Here, we overhear some of Wallace Stevens's late ruminations, we witness an erotic frolicking between poet and muse, and we receive an epistle on the subjects of love and the body from Mary Magdalen. The poet's richly cadenced style of story-telling allows him to offer theological poetry that leaves even the most cynical of readers nodding and grinning.

Author Biography

Scott Cairns teaches in the Creative Writing Department at Old Dominion University in Virginia.

Table of Contents

Necropolitan	p. 15
Deep Below Our Violences
Alexandrian Fragments	p. 19
Archaeology: A Subsequent Lecture	p. 20
Musee	p. 21
Deep Below Our Violences	p. 22
Mr. Stevens Observes the Beach	p. 24
Interval with Erato	p. 26
The Subtler Exiles	p. 28
The Estuary	p. 29
In the Minds of Three Sisters	p. 31
Regarding the Body	p. 32
A Life with Erato	p. 33
The Recovered Midrashim of Rabbi Sab
YHWH's Image	p. 39
The Entrance of Sin	p. 40
The Turning of Lot's Wife	p. 41
The Sacrifice of Isaac	p. 43
At Grips with Jacob	p. 44
In the Well of Joseph's Brief Despair	p. 46
The Death of Moses	p. 48
Solomon's Erotic Imagination	p. 49
Jephthah's Piety	p. 50
Jonah's Imprisonment	p. 52
Exile	p. 54
Supplications
The Forest of the Stylies	p. 59
To Himself	p. 60
Thanksgiving for a Habit	p. 61
The More Earnest Prayer of Christ	p. 62
Another Crucifixion	p. 63
Loves	p. 64
Tesserae	p. 69
In Lieu of Logos	p. 70
Into Hell and Out Again	p. 72
Short Trip to the Edge	p. 74
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