Late Empire
Late Empire
David Wojahn
Series: Pitt Poetry Series
Copyright Date: 1994
Published by: University of Pittsburgh Press
https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt9qh5b8
Pages: 88
https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt9qh5b8
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Late Empire
Book Description:

Late Empire, David Wojahn's most wide-ranging collection of poetry, affirms his status as one of the most compelling and original voices of his generation. In these poems, private history and public history mingle and merge in a way that is by turns deeply personal and elegiac. Centered around tow masterful elegies for the writers parents, the poems also treat an array of subjects familiar to us from news events but rarely examined by contemporary poetry.

eISBN: 978-0-8229-7945-6
Subjects: Language & Literature
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  1. Front Matter
    Front Matter (pp. [i]-[vi])
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt9qh5b8.1
  2. Table of Contents
    Table of Contents (pp. [vii]-[viii])
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt9qh5b8.2
  3. I
    • Late Empire
      Late Empire (pp. 3-5)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt9qh5b8.3
    • Extinctions
      Extinctions (pp. 6-8)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt9qh5b8.4
    • Clamor
      Clamor (pp. 9-10)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt9qh5b8.5
    • Hive Keepers
      Hive Keepers (pp. 11-13)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt9qh5b8.6
    • New Orleans, Unearthing
      New Orleans, Unearthing (pp. 14-14)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt9qh5b8.7
    • My Father’s Pornography
      My Father’s Pornography (pp. 15-16)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt9qh5b8.8
    • Homage To Ryszard Kapuściński
      Homage To Ryszard Kapuściński (pp. 17-20)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt9qh5b8.9
    • Videotape of Fighting Swans, Boston Public Gardens
      Videotape of Fighting Swans, Boston Public Gardens (pp. 21-21)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt9qh5b8.10
    • Xerox of a Photograph of Bergen-Belsen
      Xerox of a Photograph of Bergen-Belsen (pp. 22-23)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt9qh5b8.11
    • Human Form
      Human Form (pp. 24-26)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt9qh5b8.12
  4. II
    • White Lanterns
      White Lanterns (pp. 29-36)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt9qh5b8.13
  5. III
    • Wartime Photos of My Father
      Wartime Photos of My Father (pp. 39-46)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt9qh5b8.14
  6. IV
    • Photo of My Father in a Snowbound Train
      Photo of My Father in a Snowbound Train (pp. 49-49)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt9qh5b8.15
    • Tomis
      Tomis (pp. 50-52)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt9qh5b8.16
    • Emanations
      Emanations (pp. 53-55)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt9qh5b8.17
    • Elegy for Empire
      Elegy for Empire (pp. 56-58)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt9qh5b8.18
    • A Print of the Expulsion
      A Print of the Expulsion (pp. 59-63)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt9qh5b8.19
    • To the Reader
      To the Reader (pp. 64-64)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt9qh5b8.20
    • Sorting the Personal Effects
      Sorting the Personal Effects (pp. 65-66)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt9qh5b8.21
    • The First Six Seals
      The First Six Seals (pp. 67-70)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt9qh5b8.22
    • Tribute and Ash
      Tribute and Ash (pp. 71-73)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt9qh5b8.23
    • Workmen Photographed Inside the Reactor
      Workmen Photographed Inside the Reactor (pp. 74-76)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt9qh5b8.24
  7. Notes
    Notes (pp. 77-77)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt9qh5b8.25
  8. Back Matter
    Back Matter (pp. 78-80)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt9qh5b8.26