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| Book: Paperback | 5.47 x 8.42in | 160 pages | ISBN 9780142000519 | 26 Mar 2002 | Penguin | 18 - AND UP |
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If the "I" cannot be representative, what or who can it represent? In John Yau's new collection, Borrowed Love Poems, the reader encounters artists (Hiroshige and Eva Hesse), poets (Marina Tsvetayeva and Georg Trakl), actors (Boris Karloff and Peter Lorre), and memorable figures (a retired wrestler and a private eye named Genghis Chan). Each becomes a spectral, sonorous presence inhabiting the polymorphic body of the page, a shadow of a shadow lit from within. Yau's poems are dazzling explorations of the multiple, shifting sands of identity, of the fictional, fake, factual, and autobiographical selves that pass like ghosts through the empty space known as "I." Able to seamlessly merge a strict yet eccentric methodology with wild flights of the imagination, Yau moves into a rich, complex realm, where the flickering edges of consciousness-the dream state-become poetry.
Borrowed Love Poems
Acknowledgments
I.
Russian Letter
Russian Letter (2)
Russian Letter (3)
Russian Letter (4)
Russian Letter (5)
Russian Letter (6)
830 Fireplace Road
830 Fireplace Road (2)
Bowery Studio
Studio Dream
Broadcast from 791 Broadway
Three Lullabies for Traki
Self-Portrait with Max Beckmann
Second Self-Portrait with Max Beckmann
Third Self-Portrait with Max Beckmann
II.
Movies as a Form of Reincarnation: Boris Karloff Remembers Being Chinese on More Than One Occasion
Genghis Chan: Private Eye XXIX
Genghis Chan: Private Eye XXX
Peter Lorre Reminisces About Being a Sidekick
Boris Karloff in The Mummy Meets Dr. Fu Manchu
After My Chronology by Peter Lorre
I was a Poet in the House of Frankenstein
Film Adaptations of Five of America's Most Beloved Poems
Peter Lorre Records His Favorite Walt Whitman Poem for Posterity
Peter Lorre Speaks to the Spirit if Edgar Alan Poe During a Séance
III.
Things I Should Tell You Before It's Too Late
Didn't They Like You as Much as They Like Themselves?
Retired Wrestler
Fourth Metabolic Isthmus Sestina
Fifth Metabolic Isthmus Sestina
Infidel's Romance
Written in the Year of the Parrott
Domestic Bliss
Emission Control
The Secret Life of a Statuette
One Hundred Views of the Outskirts of Manhattan
One Hundred Views of the Port of Baltimore
Anonymous Self-Portrait with Wounded Chickadee
Autobiography in Pink and Blue
Autobiography in Red and Yellow
IV. vowel sonatas
the late tale
another late tale
storied fibs piled high
oval of oxidized potatoes
muddy putti under impecunious sun
ninety-nine yaupon rosary cycle
V.
Borrowed Love Poems
Notes
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