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Author:

Oresick, Peter, author.

Title:

Iconoscope : new and selected poems / Peter Oresick ; edited by Judith Vollmer ; introduction by Lawrence Joseph.

Publisher:

University of Pittsburgh Press,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

xiv, 130 pages ; 23 cm.

Subject:

American poetry--21st century.

Other Titles:

Poems. Selections

Contents:

Under the Carpathians. The Ruthenian lamb. The inspector -- Lviv, or Lw©đw -- Ruthenia -- The meeting -- A message about numbers -- Morning, Allegheny River -- The interview -- How Dickens happens -- Pastoral -- When icons weep -- That summer -- Angelism -- Therapy -- My father with pulp fiction, 1935 -- My father who art in Heaven -- Franklin -- I can't hear -- Autumn evening at the window with brushes -- She whispers -- To a museum guard at shift change -- Origins of the Ruthenian -- At the crypt of the Church of Our Lady of the Veil -- When in 2009 the G20 Summit convened in Pittsburgh -- What the hermit Zosimus said -- Sister Rosaire Kopczenski enters the religious life -- The old anarchy -- Paper plates -- I hiked the Carpathians -- Fired//on my 49th birthday -- Mary, Mary -- My mother's pirohi -- This the very coinage of the brain -- I love to sleep curled -- The Ruthenian lamb.
from Warhol-O-Rama (2008). Warhol, Andy for indexers. Andy Warhol for short attention spans -- Andy Warhol for Catholics -- Andy Warhol for the FBI -- Googlism for Andy Warhol -- Andy Warhol for the Taj Warhol -- Andy Warhol for the widow of Andy Warhol -- Andy Warhol for the undergraduates -- Andy Warhol for the Village voice classifieds, 1966 -- Andy Warhol for Familiar quotations -- Warhol, Andy for indexers.
from Definitions (1990). An American peace. One of many bars in Ford City, Pennsylvania -- My father -- Family portrait, 1933 -- Landscape with unemployed, 1934 -- The annual PPG Pensioners' picnic -- After the deindustrialization of America, my father enters television repair -- The social impact of corporate disinvestment -- Toward the heaven of full employment -- Now -- Tolstoy in heaven -- Agnes McGurrin -- The jeweler -- At a Jewish cemetery in Pittsburgh -- Pleasure -- About my son and hands -- Poem for Hamid -- After the movement -- Extreme unction -- Old Shevchenko -- An American peace.

Series:

Pitt poetry series.

ISBN:

0822963809
9780822963806

OCLC:

(OCoLC)910334454

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)