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- catalog abstract "The pieces here range from a quiet six-line lyric to rollicking mini-epics; they go from homages to the classic sonnet sequence to poems in the form of prose essays or one-act drama. Their subject matter grandly mixes hieroglyphics with newspaper comic strips, science fiction space explorers with Ellis Island immigrants, the sacred inner sanctums of the pyramids with McDonald's golden arches on a day when Wordsworth visits, biblical scholarship with barroom yuks, and the. Tiny daily triumphs and losses of all of our lives with the exploits of the gods and the limitless pulsing of the universe. In this new book, with the overriding memory of a mother's death by cancer, Goldbarth produces a sequence unified by themes of elegy, mourning, and lamentation, with settings that move from ancient pharaonic burial chambers to one last day at a suburban Chicago nursing home. It is a book of family history, and of intimate moments saved from. Disappearing into the swirl of time.".
- catalog contributor b10268069.
- catalog created "c1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "c1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1996.".
- catalog description "Disappearing into the swirl of time.".
- catalog description "In the x-ray of the sarcophagus of Ta-pero -- Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before -- Sumerian Votive Figurines -- Ancient Egyptian Canopic Jars -- The Ark of the Covenant -- Etruscan -- The Reliquary -- Poem Beginning with a Quote from Keith Laumer's Galactic Odyssey and Ending with a Quote from Mika Waltari's The Egyptian -- Circa 1861 -- "Because of their fossils" -- The Compasses -- This Needle's Tip -- The Saga of Stupidity and Wonder -- Meop -- "In science fiction, in a giant glass tube the size of a body" -- The Lives of the -- Wha'? -- Own Recognizable -- What the Poem Is Actually About -- Real Speeches -- Qebehseneuf -- Repairwork -- The Route -- Prepositions -- A Still Life, Symbolic of Lines -- Deer.".
- catalog description "The pieces here range from a quiet six-line lyric to rollicking mini-epics; they go from homages to the classic sonnet sequence to poems in the form of prose essays or one-act drama. Their subject matter grandly mixes hieroglyphics with newspaper comic strips, science fiction space explorers with Ellis Island immigrants, the sacred inner sanctums of the pyramids with McDonald's golden arches on a day when Wordsworth visits, biblical scholarship with barroom yuks, and the.".
- catalog description "Tiny daily triumphs and losses of all of our lives with the exploits of the gods and the limitless pulsing of the universe. In this new book, with the overriding memory of a mother's death by cancer, Goldbarth produces a sequence unified by themes of elegy, mourning, and lamentation, with settings that move from ancient pharaonic burial chambers to one last day at a suburban Chicago nursing home. It is a book of family history, and of intimate moments saved from.".
- catalog extent "109 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Adventures in Ancient Egypt.".
- catalog identifier "0814207146 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0814207154 (pbk.)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Adventures in Ancient Egypt.".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "c1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Columbus : Ohio State University Press,".
- catalog relation "Adventures in Ancient Egypt.".
- catalog subject "811/.54 20".
- catalog subject "PS3557.O354 A65 1996".
- catalog subject "Poetry, Modern 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Poets, American.".
- catalog tableOfContents "In the x-ray of the sarcophagus of Ta-pero -- Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before -- Sumerian Votive Figurines -- Ancient Egyptian Canopic Jars -- The Ark of the Covenant -- Etruscan -- The Reliquary -- Poem Beginning with a Quote from Keith Laumer's Galactic Odyssey and Ending with a Quote from Mika Waltari's The Egyptian -- Circa 1861 -- "Because of their fossils" -- The Compasses -- This Needle's Tip -- The Saga of Stupidity and Wonder -- Meop -- "In science fiction, in a giant glass tube the size of a body" -- The Lives of the -- Wha'? -- Own Recognizable -- What the Poem Is Actually About -- Real Speeches -- Qebehseneuf -- Repairwork -- The Route -- Prepositions -- A Still Life, Symbolic of Lines -- Deer.".
- catalog title "Adventures in Ancient Egypt : poems / Albert Goldbarth.".
- catalog type "text".