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- catalog abstract "In The Milk of Inquiry, poet and critic Wayne Koestenbaum has written his most beautiful book - more mediative and more provocative than his previous, much-praised work. The volume's most ambitious gesture is a long poem, "Metamorphoses (Masked Ball)," a sequence of 115 bawdy, speedy sonnets, spoken by mythological figures ghosting as historical personages - among them, Orpheus speaking as Elvis, Proserpina speaking as Freud, Adonis speaking as Cleopatra, and Daphne speaking as Wilde. The swirling disobedient voices form a closet drama, a splintered monologue, a shadow theater of violation and transfiguration. The book begins with short lyrics that show Koestenbaum's opulent sensibility at its most austere. Meanwhile, in a long autobiographical poem, "Four Lemon Drops," he jostles the reader with pleasurable, roller-coaster swerves, and hurtles - in quatrains - between the poles of irony and lament.".
- catalog contributor b11548680.
- catalog created "c1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "c1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1999.".
- catalog description "Forgotten Songs -- Who Polished the Wood? -- Splinters -- Poem -- Into the Lobster Bisque of the Sky I Shall Sail -- Holes -- The Complete History of My Crotch -- The Complete History of My Brain -- Lament -- The Beautiful -- Pilot of the Falling Helicopter -- Christopher Meets the Sublime -- Poem for My Son -- Obligation Days -- Men I Led Astray -- History of Boys -- Gaudy Slave Trader -- In Pursuit of Lost Rigor -- I Tried an Ox -- Poem for My Son (II) -- My Child -- The Complete History of My Brain (II) -- Infection -- Hygiene Kit -- Poem for George Platt Lynes -- The Photographer -- Three Disappearances -- Lithium -- Four Lemon Drops -- Metamorphoses (Masked Ball).".
- catalog description "In The Milk of Inquiry, poet and critic Wayne Koestenbaum has written his most beautiful book - more mediative and more provocative than his previous, much-praised work. The volume's most ambitious gesture is a long poem, "Metamorphoses (Masked Ball)," a sequence of 115 bawdy, speedy sonnets, spoken by mythological figures ghosting as historical personages - among them, Orpheus speaking as Elvis, Proserpina speaking as Freud, Adonis speaking as Cleopatra, and Daphne speaking as Wilde. The swirling disobedient voices form a closet drama, a splintered monologue, a shadow theater of violation and transfiguration.".
- catalog description "The book begins with short lyrics that show Koestenbaum's opulent sensibility at its most austere. Meanwhile, in a long autobiographical poem, "Four Lemon Drops," he jostles the reader with pleasurable, roller-coaster swerves, and hurtles - in quatrains - between the poles of irony and lament.".
- catalog extent "134 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0892552395".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "c1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Persea Books,".
- catalog subject "811/.54 21".
- catalog subject "Gay men Poetry.".
- catalog subject "PS3561.O349 M55 1999".
- catalog tableOfContents "Forgotten Songs -- Who Polished the Wood? -- Splinters -- Poem -- Into the Lobster Bisque of the Sky I Shall Sail -- Holes -- The Complete History of My Crotch -- The Complete History of My Brain -- Lament -- The Beautiful -- Pilot of the Falling Helicopter -- Christopher Meets the Sublime -- Poem for My Son -- Obligation Days -- Men I Led Astray -- History of Boys -- Gaudy Slave Trader -- In Pursuit of Lost Rigor -- I Tried an Ox -- Poem for My Son (II) -- My Child -- The Complete History of My Brain (II) -- Infection -- Hygiene Kit -- Poem for George Platt Lynes -- The Photographer -- Three Disappearances -- Lithium -- Four Lemon Drops -- Metamorphoses (Masked Ball).".
- catalog title "The milk of inquiry : poems / Wayne Koestenbaum.".
- catalog type "Poetry. fast".
- catalog type "text".