On a Stair,9780140587937

On a Stair

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ISBN13: 9780140587937
ISBN10: 0140587934
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1997-10-01
Publisher(s): Penguin Books
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Summary

Ann Lauterbach's fifth collection takes its title from Emerson's great essay, Experience: "Where do we find ourselves?" he asks. Lauterbach's stair sits precariously between a quest for spiritual vitality and a sense of the overwhelming materiality of our world. Identifying with the clown, the nomad and the thief figures whose ghostly marginality haunt this book, Lauterbach brings us, with a dazzling range of formal and imagistic resources, to a new understanding of how language inscribes the relationship between self-knowledge and cultural meaning.

Author Biography

Ann Lauterbach is Ruth and David Schwab III Professor of Language and Literature at Bard College. Her work has received fellowship support from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, and the John D. and Catherine C. MacArthur Foundation. She has published six collections of poetry, including If in Time: Selected Poems 1975-2000.

Table of Contents

A Valentine for Tomorrow
1(3)
Nocturnal Reel
4(3)
Bramble Portrait
7(2)
Figure without Ground
9(2)
Poem of the Landscape
11(7)
On (Tower)
17(1)
Night Barrier
18(3)
Poise on Row
21(2)
Sequence with Dream Objects in Real Time
23(3)
Blake's Lagoon
26(3)
Free Fall
29(5)
On (Word)
31(2)
On (Open)
33(1)
A Clown, Some Colors, A Doll, Her Stories, A Song, A Moonlit Cove
34(20)
On (Thing)
51(2)
On (Dream)
53(1)
The Return of Weather
54(5)
Staircase
59(2)
A History Lesson
61(1)
Daylight Savings Time
62(2)
Delayed Elegy
64(1)
And The Question Of
65(3)
Poem with Last Line from Epictetus
68(2)
Here/This/There/That
70(2)
Auction
72(4)
On
75(1)
N/est
76(9)
Invocation
85

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