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Subject(s)

• American poetry—21st century [Browse]
• Art—Poetry [Browse]
• Gods—Poetry [Browse]
• Rome—Poetry [Browse]
• Greece—Poetry [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Series

Akron series in poetry [More in this series]

Summary note

No Other Rome is a poetry collection sparked by a multifarious intertextuality. Love poems, elegies, and meditations draw on Classical, Modern, and contemporary literature, art, architecture and music, to reckon with the rapid move from twentieth-century concerns into an unpredictable present.

Notes

Poems.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• If Anything Is Everlasting It Can Only Be One Thing
• Provincial Time
• Aristotle Is a Skeleton
• "I Can See through Walls"
• How the Little Bear Reflected Light
• I Typed Your Poem with My Own Hands Today
• The Angel Is an Amalgam
• Small Machines with Sapphic Fragment
• A Series of Holes Connected by String
• Treachery
• Spectres
• "I Will See the Future"
• The Monocle Is a Circle the Eye Is a Circle
• Let Us Try for Once Not to Be Right
• The Problem with Samy Rosenstock
• What's Water?
• Valentine's Day at the SF MOMA, Again
• The Transitive Properties of Snow
• Feathers, Quiet, Light
• I Make the Living Water Wet
• Proteas
• Vita Astrale
• The Half-God Appears
• I Was Reading up on My Hellenic Math
• IV
• New Names
• Spoglie
• Rome, with Child
• O, to Live in the Necropolis
• Fable for a Genome
• Notes
• Acknowledgments.

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ISBN

• 9781629222066 (paperback)
• 1629222062 (paperback)

OCLC

1247056422

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