Spectral Waves

by Bottoms, David

• ISBN13: 9781556592409
• ISBN10: 155659240X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-06-01
• Publisher: Copper Canyon Pr

Summary

Whether writing sly sonnets about Elvis or naming her cataracts, Madeline DeFrees demonstrates rigorous poetic clarity

Table of Contents

The Poetry of Eyes	p. 5
Smokehouse Blues	p. 6
The Eye	p. 8
Broken Sleep	p. 9
Naming the Cataracts	p. 10
Simple Questions	p. 12
Dressing the Dead Girl by Gustave Courbet	p. 13
An Elegy for Dan	p. 15
The Visionary under the Knife	p. 17
The Poetry of Spiders	p. 21
Mythology of Spider Silk	p. 22
Three Things That Make Me Outrageously Happy in March	p. 23
Spiders in Camouflage	p. 24
Synthesizing Spider Silk	p. 25
Lodestar	p. 27
Electrical Impulses	p. 28
The Magdalen with the Nightlight by Georges de La Tour	p. 30
On My Sixtieth Birthday, I Work at the Yellow Sun	p. 31
Spider Folklore	p. 33
Delicate Pleasures	p. 34
The poetry of earth	p. 39
Questions of Interior Decoration	p. 40
Two for Wallace Stevens
Floral Study	p. 41
The Logic of Poetry	p. 43
The Spider in Brewer's Dictionary	p. 45
Vascular Diagnostics	p. 46
Time Exposure	p. 48
Confidence Man	p. 50
The Repentant Magdalen by Georges de La Tour	p. 52
Serpentine Soliloquy	p. 53
After a tearful morning	p. 55
The Poetry of Swans	p. 59
Astronomy	p. 60
The Courtship of Birds	p. 61
To a Former Lover in His Sanctuary	p. 63
The scissor-tailed swallow	p. 65
Paula Executes the Angels	p. 66
To a Crow Outside My Bay Window	p. 68
After great pain, a formal feeling comes	p. 69
The Wild Parrots	p. 71
A Crown of Sonnets for "The King"
The Undertaker's Dream	p. 75
Reality Sets In	p. 76
Doa	p. 77
Code Blue	p. 78
War Hero's Welcome	p. 79
Parade of Beautiful Women	p. 80
Graceland: The Meditation Garden	p. 81
Figures for a Carrousel
The Man	p. 82
The Woman	p. 83
The Music	p. 84
The Ride	p. 85
The Child	p. 86
The Family Group	p. 87
Getting Off	p. 88
About the Author	p. 91
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