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Signs & wonders : poems
- Author / Creator
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- Online
- Summary
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Renowned for his translations of Ovid's Metamorphoses and the poems of Catullus, Martin brings the perspective of history to bear on the stuff of contemporary life.
Details
- Creator
- by Charles Martin
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- 1st ed
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (92 pages)
- ISBNs
- 0801899745, 9780801899744, 1421401061, 9781421401065
- OCLC
- ocn794700400, ocn798295748
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- English
- Cover -- Contents -- Directions for Assembly -- I/ THE LIFE IN LETTERS -- The Flower Thief -- Souvenir -- Some Kind of Happiness -- The Sacred Monsters -- Words to Utter at Nightfall -- Mind in the Trees -- Autopsychography -- Support -- East Side, West Side -- 1/ Vermeer at the Frick: His Mistress and Maid -- 2/ John Koch at the New-York Historical Society: The Party -- To Himself -- Brooklyn in the Seventies -- This Organizing Solitude -- Theory Victorious -- II/ SOME ROMANS -- On a Roman Perfume Bottle -- Ara Pacis -- Ovid to His Book -- Three Sonnets from the Romanesco of G.G. Belli -- 1/ The Good Soldiers -- 2/ The Spaniard -- 3/ The Coffee House Philosopher -- III/ NEAR JEFFREY'S HOOK -- The Twentieth Century in Photographs -- Poem for the Millennium -- Who Knows What's Best? -- Getting Carded -- For the End of the Age of Irony -- Near Jeffrey's Hook -- Foreboding -- After 9/11 -- After Wang Wei -- Poison -- Acknowledgments