Bat Ode / Edition 2

by Jeredith Merrin

Overview

The poems in Bat Ode speak to the way we live today and how it feels to occupy such a mongrel, fast-changing, postmodern world. Yet rather than breaking with the linguistic or poetic past, these poems seem to renew it with a fresh vision. Jeredith Merrin's sense of humor, her formal poise, her heart and wit, situate her as one of our most convincing social poets.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780226520582
Publisher:	University of Chicago Press
Publication date:	04/01/2001
Series:	Phoenix Poets
Edition description:	1
Pages:	80
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Jeredith Merrin is a professor of English at The Ohio State University. She is the author of An Enabling Humility: Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, and the Uses of Tradition. Her first book of poetry, Shift, was published by the University of Chicago Press.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
I
Family Reunion
Zoo Bus
Long Distance
Day Trip
Dear Edward Lear I Love Your
An American Classic
II
Tulpenwoede
Depression
Film Noir
Impediments
Hotel Breakfast with an Old Classmate
Southern CA
Ugetsu
From a Summer Porch
III
Bat Ode
Downtown Diner
At the College Yesterday
Memo
New Apartment
The Attic
Sweeping
Norway Maple, Cut Down