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010 $a 96044929
020 $a1889330035 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 $a1889330043 (paper : alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)35637614
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050 00 $aPS3573.O693$bW46 1997
082 00 $a811/.54$220
100 1 $aWormser, Baron.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82103322
245 10 $aWhen /$cBaron Wormser.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aLouisville, Ky. :$bSarabande Books,$c[1997], ©1997.
300 $a85 pages ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
505 00 $tForeword /$rAlice Fulton --$tSomerset County --$tListening to a Baseball Game --$tPoems --$tFor D.R., Dead of AIDS at Age 25 --$tAmerican Poem of the Senior Citizenry --$tDramatis Personae (1957) --$tTricia LeClair --$tRudinsky's, 1953 --$tSingle-Life Blues --$tPikesville --$tIt's a Party (1959) --$tSwayed --$tSimon Turetzky Who Died at Dachau --$tMark Rothko, 1903-1970 --$tDiary of an Ant --$tWho St. Augustine Was --$tChildren's Ward --$tYoung Ahab --$tSonnet --$tOn the Bus to Houston --$tBeethoven's Maid --$tCow Symphony --$tComics --$tVegas: the Urge --$tFans --$t"If Vietnam is a Memory, Then I'm a Ghost" (1980) --$tThe Poverty of Theory --$tElegy for a Detective --$tHistory: a Conversation --$tHomage to Thomas Eakins --$tBob Ward (1955) --$tFarmers Go Crazy Slowly --$tHousing Project --$tDelmore Schwartz --$tAt the Lincoln Memorial --$tSister Angela (1947) --$tThe Beltway --$tWeather --$tThe Economy --$tFast Food Incident --$tSquares --$tDying in the Hospital --$tThe Copper-Colored Stain --
505 80 $tKissing --$tMy Wife Asks Me Why I Keep Photographs in a Drawer --$tHettie Smith --$tRent --$tStrangers --$tDeath of a Woodcutter (1954) --$tShoplifting --$t1978 --$tAllegory --$tFor Pleasure (Bob Corin's Pickup) --$tVoice: the Entertainer --$tA Quiet Life.
520 $aThe most salient feature of Baron Wormser's work is its empathy. As he says in "Poems," Your soul's a canyon. And their souls too. Wormser conflates his soul with the reader's soul and thereby erodes conventional distinctions between "us" and "them.".
520 8 $aBut Wormser seems most likely to identify with us when we feel excluded, estranged, awkward, when we resist the homogenizing effects of modern life. His speakers and subjects range from a lowly ant to the residents of a terminal children's ward to a naively idealistic hippie confronting the guardian of a missile silo in the Midwest.
520 8 $aThe voices in these poems do not observe so much as sink down into the inexplicably unfair lottery of life, giving us perspective from both the blessed and luckless among us.
852 00 $boff,glx$hPS3573.O693$iW46 1997