Wallace Stevens' torrid words serve as both epigraph and incantation for Adrienne Weiss's powerful debut collection. Like Stevens, the poet acts as an intuitive observer and an almost violently acute mystic throughout these extravagant poems. Awful Gestures is a true collision of technical expertise and grace. It is a classically lyrical, deeply subjective examination of the randomness of beauty from a voice sharpened against the edges of love, fear and yearning.
Authors
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- C811/.54
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 21
- General Note
- Poems Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 1894663128 9781459309401
- LCCN
- PR9199.4.W44
- LCCN Item number
- A96 2001eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (59 p.)
- Published in
- Canada
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)slc00211056 (OCoLC)696032377 (CaOOCEL)407985
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- Awful Gestures 10
- Rain is no ordinary miracle 14
- Subterranean 15
- Scar 16
- A Pretty Mistake 17
- Stand Behind the Yellow Line 19
- Queen Bee 20
- Sweetheart Roland 22
- Dead Flies 23
- Road Kill: leaving you in a suburban restaurant 25
- I watch you, real hard 27
- Pop Art 28
- Timeless 29
- A Heart Like Yours 30
- Itinerant Job 31
- Unwavering, linoleum rain pelts on 32
- A Deep Shade of Remedy 33
- Beyond the Flurry 34
- Stay 35
- Dextrarum Iunctio (The Joining of Right Hands) 36
- Careful Where You Tread 37
- In my heat you disappear 38
- Night Comes For Sleep 39
- The Myth of Tantalus 41
- Glitter and Waste 42
- Chance Operations 43
- Smoking is Sexy 44
- Ballad for a Bartender at the Rivoli 45
- Isis, 925.13.42, Roman Gallery, ROM 47
- American Windows 48
- Male Figure Reclining 50
- We are at carnival and I am in chartreuse 52
- Malabar 53
- At the Anne Frankhuis 55
- Auvers-sur-Oise, June 1890 56
- Night Healers 57
- Notes 59
- Previously Published 60
