Spar : poems

Spar : poems / by Karen Volkman.

Karen Volkman's award-winning collection Spar has as its central form a highly compressed, musical variant of the prose poem. Volkman develops a new lyric density that marries the immediacy of image-centered poetry to the rhythmic resources of prose. Her first poem begins, "Someone was sea...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Volkman, Karen
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2002.
Series:Iowa poetry prize.
Subjects:
American poetry.
Poetry.
poetry.
POETRY > American > General.
American poetry
Poetry
Online Access:Click for online access
Table of Contents:
  • Create Desire
  • I won't go in today
  • Shrewd star
  • The problem of these
  • ''Why are you here''
  • If it be event
  • Meet me two years
  • More feet on more
  • May
  • What, I said
  • There comes a time
  • What we know
  • Kiss Me Deadly
  • O verb, o void
  • Lady of the lake
  • August could ask
  • Yellow drapes
  • Although the paths
  • There was a stare
  • And when the nights
  • It could be a bird
  • Poem (My hayseed harlequin)
  • Or would triumph
  • Octaves, ovations
  • The first greeting
  • I was watching
  • Now I promise
  • When kiss spells
  • Betrayal
  • He deciphers
  • Tender feather
  • Yes the red flower
  • A story left
  • I never wish to
  • Dear noon
  • Shadow of a Doubt
  • The rain falls
  • Winter Abstract
  • A light says why
  • O coronet
  • The end of the day
  • Implorers, connivers
  • What I meet of
  • And the urge is less
  • Poem (Black corners of winter)
  • They make it go
  • I have a friend
  • To take, to make
  • Do not think, beloved
  • Lost he says
  • Heroic Roses
  • No noise subtracts
  • I believe there is
  • We did things.

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