The Siege of the Body and a Brief Respite

Anthony Caleshu (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

140 Seiten

2004
Salt Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-84471-017-1 (ISBN)

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This is contemporary poetry that extends the tradition of writers such as John Ashbery and Paul Muldoon. Its importance is in its progressive use of language and its interesting look at contemporary culture.

This is Anthony Caleshu’s first book of poems. Divided into five sections, themes range from the erotic to the religious in poems which are as inventive for their images as they are for their form. Concerns with language and contemporary culture are at the forefront of these poems, which are alternatively whimsical and seriously subversive. Straddling both the anecdotal narrative and the experimental lyric, these poems are at their most progressive in two sections of `dialogues’ and `collaborations’. The dialogues make use of disembodied voices as each poem creates a definitive scene. The collaborations play on notions of otherness and integration as Caleshu collaborates with himself; bouncing language against langauge, like hitting a tennis ball against a garage door. This is a poetry that captures the fun of having serious implications. If American in language games and effects, it is international in subject and wit.

Anthony Caleshu is the author of two books of poetry and a novella His poems and stories have appeared widely in journals and newspapers on both sides of the Atlantic, including Times Literary Supplement, Poetry Review, Poetry Ireland Review, The Dublin Review, American Literary Review, and Agni Online. He is the editor of the literary journal Short FICTION and teaches at the University of Plymouth in South West England.

Part I.

The Siege of the Body and a Brief Respite (I)

1. The Siege of the Body

2. And a Brief Respite

Portrait

Peeping Tom’s Closing Argument on Why the Woman in the Third Floor Window Should Stop Dancing Naked around Her Room and Just Hold Her Hairbrush and Look at the Moon

Long Day’s Journey into Night

Ars Poetica Abandoned

Director’s Cut (1)

Soap Opera

1. Cassey to Samantha

2. David to Cassey

3. Samantha to Sue

4. John to Whit

5. Rob to Wilson

6. Sue to Rob

7. Whit to David

8. Helen to David

9. Wilson to Rob

10. Sue to Samantha

11. Epilogue : Samantha to Helen

The Interrupting

One Night Only : My Love Sings the Blues at the Chukker Club

Another Game of Chess

How Long Will this Game Last, or Should I Ask How Deep ?

Fixing Fences, Following the Hunt

Variations

Part II. Dialogues

Storming the Beaches

Ambushing the Houseatonic

The Wedding

Director’s Cut (2)

Drama : Galway

The Changing of the Light Bulb

Imagine a Caste System

Steve Was Caught Red-Handed Weighing and Selling Bananas by the Pound

The Headless Cyclist Wins the Tour de France

The Office Monologues

1. The Mannequin

2. The Transparent Raincoat

3. The Task

4. Lunch

5. In Case of Fire

6. The Lingering Hours of Early Afternoon

7. X, Y and Zed

8. Quitting Time

The Messenger

Invigilating Students

Homecoming

The Doctor’s Child and the Doctor

As We Approached the Summit

The Correspondence

X-Poem

The Yelping Hound Howling at Her Lord

Part III.

The Poet’s Introduction to Another Poet’s Reading

1. The ones who are better or different he has to hate because they are better or different –

2. And those who are worse he despises because that is his earned right –

3. Or, if they’re worse and successful, he hates them twice, twenty, fifty times as much for their success that indicts the taste of the public –

The Siege of the Body and a Brief Respite (II)

1. The Siege of the Body

2. And a Brief Respite

At Thy Rebuke They Fled

Andy, My Friend the Businessman

August

Sestina : The Minister of Sound

Director’s Cut (3)

Faith

The Man with Wings

The Politic Heart

In Ireland, after the Legalization of Divorce

Part IV. Collaborations

Collaboration : Cleaning up the Park

Collaboration : The Art Thief

Collaboration : On Hearing She Taught Her Younger Brother to Kiss

Collaboration : A Day at the Beach

Collaboration : Why the Birds Came

Collaboration : Director’s Cut (4)

Collaboration : Film Noir

Collaboration : Between Countries

Collaboration : The Election

Collaboration : In a Time of Terror

Collaboration : The Satisfactioners

Collaboration : The Woman Who Can’t Dance and the Man Who Thinks He Can

1. Smoke rose from the dance floor

2. Outside the door, he waits for her to collect their coats

3. On their walk home, he uses the woman who can’t dance like a crutch

4. Stopping their goodnight kiss, she gets angry

Collaboration : The Wall

Collaboration : Pastoral on Fire

Collaboration : Migration Patterns

Part V.

Ciara Can’t Dance

After the Word Love Was Spoken

Epithalymion

Love, I Have Slept in that House

Study : Sunday Morning after Their First Saturday Night

Role Playing with Ciara

Your Mama’s Boy and Her Daddy’s Girl

Epithalymion

Love Thy Faye

Director’s Cut (5)

The Madam in Her Chateau and the Cuckold Who Camps in Her Front Garden

Church Full of Objections

The Siege of the Body and a Brief Respite

Erscheint lt. Verlag	15.3.2004
Reihe/Serie	Salt Modern Poets
Zusatzinfo	Not illustrated
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Algebra
Schlagworte	Salt Modern Poets S.
ISBN-10	1-84471-017-3 / 1844710173
ISBN-13	978-1-84471-017-1 / 9781844710171
Zustand	Neuware