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Synopsis
Poetry that springs from the collision of memory, dream, and history, Jonathan Aaron's narratives and lyrics develop in unpredictable, often unlikely ways toward moments of surprising disclosure. The poems in Corridor look back on actual or fictional events in history (the fate of a foolhardy Roman commander, the musings of a fourth-century farmer who saw the Huns), celebrate modern adventures of the imagination such as filmmaker Luis Bunuel and novelist/fabulist Julio Cortazar, explore moments of a private vision (a man recalls his addiction to cigarettes, a woman tries to communicate with a water monster), recast the narrative spells of a ballad - "Serial Nocturne," the collection's longest work, revisits and renews the age-old story of the demon lover. Different as they are, these poems are driven by an underlying impulse to portray characters as odds with the worlds they inhabit, people who are therefore all the more of those worlds, individuals whose dilemmas and crises all have something to tell us about the struggle of moral consciousness to discover itself.
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"Opens upon a mesmerizing, all-inclusive mental universe among whose black holes, suns and novas a traveller feels strangely at ease thanks to the confident, witty, seductive chronicles of the navigator. This is poetry of a tensely controlled surrealism, of the utter unpredictability of one's destination, of the ultimate autonomy one's craft achieves as outward gravity starts to prevail over the initial pull homeward. One of my favorite poets: on his own as always, and in a very big way"--Joseph Brodsky.
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Corridor: Poems (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
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Wesleyan University Press, 1992
ISBN 10: 0819522007
ISBN 13: 9780819522009
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Hardcover
Seller: Midtown Scholar Bookstore, Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Good - Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name - GOOD Standard-sized. Seller Inventory # M0819522007Z3
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Corridor (First Edition)
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Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, 1992
ISBN 10: 0819522007
ISBN 13: 9780819522009
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Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Dan Pope Books, West Hartford, CT, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Wesleyan University Press [1992]. First edition. First printing, full number line. Hardbound. New/issued without dust jacket. A pristine unread copy. Issued simultaneously, in hardcover and paperback, both editions are part of the Wesleyan Poetry Series. Corridor is Jonathan Aaron s second poetry collection, following Second Sight (1982). The poems in this volume explore the intersections of memory, dream, and history, often leading to moments of surprising disclosure. Aaron's work is known for its lyrical precision and formal intelligence, and this collection continues that tradition. Jonathan Aaron published in The New Yorker and The Paris Review. Seller Inventory # jean0348