Full Description
"The poems in Antiquity very much abandon themselves to language, to the collective poetic endeavor, and they do so in a rich, textured, and sustained voice."—Mary Ruefle, from the introduction
Winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Prize, Michael Homolka's Antiquity offers the present infused with the past, from Ancient Greece to the Holocaust to contemporary battlefields. A haunting and evocative debut.
Michael Homolka lives and works in New York City. Homolka's poems have appeared in the New Yorker, Ploughshares, the Threepenny Review, and elsewhere.
Contents
1
Goshen
Ode on Quote How to Live
Antiquity
Anamnesis
Circumstances
Retreat
2
Out at the Mall
Listen Up Medusa
Riposte to Ode
Personal Narrative
Broken Home
Endurance
Frame
Phenomenon
Restoration
Unjustified Mood on a Monday Evening
3
Ruins
Modern Sensibility
East
Villa View Drive
West
Artifact
Transients
History Moves in Waves
A History of Art
Emanation
Men on the Road
