Primer for Non-Native Speakers

Philip Metres

Description

"After reading Primer for Non-Native Speakers, I feel like I've just come back from a trip to Russia. Philip Metres's brilliantly compressed lyrical narratives capture the grandeur and the bleakness of an almost mythological country, where a bronze statue of the great poet Pushkin now gazes out on the golden arches, and the swear of a slammed door is more expressive than a mouthful of words. These are subtle, accomplished, shimmering poems that explore the nuances of being an outsider in a language."-Maura Stanton

Sujets

• Poetry

Informations

• Publié par: The Kent State University Press
• Date de parution: 09 avril 2014
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781612774008
• Langue: English

Extrait

PRIMER FOR NON-NATIVE SPEAKERS
Wick Poetry Chapbook Series Three
Maggie Anderson, Editor
Any Kind of Excuse
Nin Andrews
Orphics
Leonard Kress
Just One of Those Things
Sarah Perrier
The Several World
Will Toedtman
Stone for an Eye
Karen Craigo
Primer for Non-Native Speakers
Philip Metres
Animals of Habit
Catherine Pierce
Twenty Questions for Robbie Dunkle
J. Gabriel Scala
PRIMER FOR NON-NATIVE SPEAKERS
Philip Metres
The Kent State University Press Kent & London
© 2004 by Philip Metres
All rights reserved
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 2003021197
ISBN 0-87338-804-6
Manufactured in the United States of America
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The Wick Poetry Chapbook Series is sponsored by the Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Program and the Department of English at Kent State University.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Metres, Philip, 1970–
Primer for non-native speakers / Philip Metres.
p. cm.—(Wick poetry chapbook series; ser. 3, no. 6)
ISBN 0-87338-804-6 (pbk. : alk. paper) ∞
I. Title. II. Series.
PS 3613. E 887 P 75 2004
811’.6—dc22
2003021197
British Library Cataloging-in-Publication data are available.
For Amy Breau
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Ashberries: Letters
Primer for Non-Native Speakers
Matryoshka, Memory
Elk Island
Icon
St. Basil
Reunion/Insomnia at the Dacha
Olga
Days of 1993
Post-Soviet Sestina
From Sokolniky
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Thanks to Amy Breau, my wife and fellow poet. Thanks to my teachers, for their guidance: Cathy Bowman, Bob Cording, Mark Halliday, Roger Mitchell, Maura Stanton, and especially my advisor, David Wojahn.