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050 00 $aPS3553.U455$bP6 1997
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100 1 $aCummins, James.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85349002
245 10 $aPortrait in a spoon :$bpoems /$cby James Cummins.
260 $aColumbia, S.C. :$bUniversity of South Carolina Press,$c[1997], ©1997.
300 $axiv, 79 pages ;$c23 cm.
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490 1 $aThe James Dickey contemporary poetry series
505 00 $tA Note on James Cummins --$tGambler's Death --$tThe Voices --$tA Biography --$tThe Imaginary Friendship of Li Ho and Tu Mu --$tThe Beloved --$tGift --$tNights --$tMarriage Songs --$tEntrails --$tHamlet Relieves Himself --$tHamlet at Work --$tHamlet Drinks with His Buddy, Tom --$tOverheard --$tTo My Daughter --$tFling --$tReading Hemingway --$tThe Man Who Broke Jackson Pollock's Nose --$tGood-bye to All That --$tQuotes --$tThe Son --$tThe Brother --$tThe Husband --$tThe Poet --$tWhite Rose --$tThe Poet-in-Residence --$tPortrait of Man with Blue Mug --$tGames --$tOutside the Paul Laurence Dunbar House, the Grifter Sees Us Coming --$t"Schindler's List" --$tThe Body Is the Flower --$tGhosts --$tAn Ars Poetica for You --$tTo My Daughter, Sleeping --$tGuides --$tTurista --$tPortals --$tSinging in the Rain --$tGreen Fuse --$tRomantic Love --$tTo His Book.
520 $aBy turns comic and poignant, the poems in Portrait in a Spoon explore the uses and abuses of language as it intersects the uses and abuses of power. Taking George Eliot's observation that even Milton, looking at himself in a spoon, would have to "submit to have the facial angle of a bumpkin," James Cummins investigates questions of identity - the illusions we sustain, the passions we conceal, and the stories that surround both.
520 8 $aIn his previous collection of sestinas, The Whole Truth, Cummins rewrote to absurd and magisterial ends the Perry Mason saga. In this much-awaited second volume of poems, he again trains his eye on culture - high and low, popular and elitist - to explore and explode the myths and mythos of making. He finds the spoon that encloses and discloses, like John Ashbery's mirror, distorts as it explains.
520 8 $aIt has its analogue in the closed forms that he masterfully employs here: epigram, sonnet, villanelle, and sestina.
830 0 $aJames Dickey contemporary poetry series.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96000091
852 00 $boff,glx$hPS3553.U455$iP6 1997