World Tree
World Tree
DAVID WOJAHN
Series: Pitt Poetry Series
Copyright Date: 2011
Published by: University of Pittsburgh Press
https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt7zwbts
Pages: 144
https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt7zwbts
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World Tree
Book Description:

World Treeis in many respects, David Wojahn's most ambitious collection to date; especially notable is a 25-poem sequence of ekphrastic poems, "Ochre," which is accompanied by a haunting series of drawings and photographs of Neolithic Art and anonymous turn of the last century snapshots.

Wojahn continues to explore the themes and approaches which he is known for, among them the junctures between the personal and political, a giddy mixing of high and pop culture references, and a deep emotional engagement with whatever material he is writing about.Winner of the 2012 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets

eISBN: 978-0-8229-7829-9
Subjects: Language & Literature
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  1. Front Matter
    Front Matter (pp. [i]-[vii])
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt7zwbts.1
  2. Table of Contents
    Table of Contents (pp. viii-x)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt7zwbts.2
  3. I.
    • Scribal: My Mother in the Voting Booth
      Scribal: My Mother in the Voting Booth (pp. 3-4)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt7zwbts.3
    • August, 1953
      August, 1953 (pp. 5-5)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt7zwbts.4
    • Screensaver: Pharaoh
      Screensaver: Pharaoh (pp. 6-8)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt7zwbts.5
    • Ending with a Quotation from Walden
      Ending with a Quotation from Walden (pp. 9-10)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt7zwbts.6
    • Nazim
      Nazim (pp. 11-13)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt7zwbts.7
    • Christ at Emmaus
      Christ at Emmaus (pp. 14-16)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt7zwbts.8
    • For the Honorable Wayne LaPierre, President, National Rifle Association
      For the Honorable Wayne LaPierre, President, National Rifle Association (pp. 17-18)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt7zwbts.9
    • Self-Portrait Photo of Rimbaud with Folded Arms: Abyssinia, 1883
      Self-Portrait Photo of Rimbaud with Folded Arms: Abyssinia, 1883 (pp. 19-19)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt7zwbts.10
    • Rolltop
      Rolltop (pp. 20-21)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt7zwbts.11
    • Napping on My Fifty-Third Birthday
      Napping on My Fifty-Third Birthday (pp. 22-24)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt7zwbts.12
    • Quicken
      Quicken (pp. 25-25)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt7zwbts.13
    • Fetish Value
      Fetish Value (pp. 26-28)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt7zwbts.14
    • For Tomas Tranströmer
      For Tomas Tranströmer (pp. 29-30)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt7zwbts.15
  4. II.
    • Another Epistle to Frank O’Hara
      Another Epistle to Frank O’Hara (pp. 33-35)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt7zwbts.16
    • Self-Portrait as Sock Puppet
      Self-Portrait as Sock Puppet (pp. 36-36)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt7zwbts.17
    • Ode to Black 6
      Ode to Black 6 (pp. 37-38)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt7zwbts.18
    • Mixtape to Be Brought to Her in Rehab
      Mixtape to Be Brought to Her in Rehab (pp. 39-40)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt7zwbts.19
    • Jimmie Rodgers’s Last Blue Yodel, 1933
      Jimmie Rodgers’s Last Blue Yodel, 1933 (pp. 41-41)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt7zwbts.20
    • For Willy DeVille
      For Willy DeVille (pp. 42-43)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt7zwbts.21
    • The Apotheosis of Charlie Feathers
      The Apotheosis of Charlie Feathers (pp. 44-45)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt7zwbts.22
    • World Tree
      World Tree (pp. 46-52)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt7zwbts.23
  5. III.
    • Ochre
      Ochre (pp. 55-104)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt7zwbts.24
  6. IV.
    • Mudlark Shuffle
      Mudlark Shuffle (pp. 107-108)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt7zwbts.25
    • Freshwater Bay
      Freshwater Bay (pp. 109-110)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt7zwbts.26
    • Letter to Eadweard Muybridge
      Letter to Eadweard Muybridge (pp. 111-112)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt7zwbts.27
    • In the Domed Stadium
      In the Domed Stadium (pp. 113-114)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt7zwbts.28
    • Nocturne: Newark Airport
      Nocturne: Newark Airport (pp. 115-117)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt7zwbts.29
    • A Decorated Ghost Dance Shirt
      A Decorated Ghost Dance Shirt (pp. 118-118)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt7zwbts.30
    • Visiting Dugan
      Visiting Dugan (pp. 119-120)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt7zwbts.31
    • Web Prayer for Milosz
      Web Prayer for Milosz (pp. 121-121)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt7zwbts.32
    • Warren Zevon, Johnny Cash
      Warren Zevon, Johnny Cash (pp. 122-122)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt7zwbts.33
    • Block Letters
      Block Letters (pp. 123-123)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt7zwbts.34
    • Sepulchre
      Sepulchre (pp. 124-127)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt7zwbts.35
    • Talismanic
      Talismanic (pp. 128-130)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt7zwbts.36
  7. NOTES
    NOTES (pp. 131-133)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt7zwbts.37
  8. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS (pp. 134-134)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt7zwbts.38