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Train to Providence
Train to Providence is a conversation between poet and photographer. Rodger Kingston’s photographs were made over a sustained period of several decades, while William Doreski’s poems were written in the short span of a few months. The pictures do not illustrate the poems, and the poems do not merely describe the photographs. But the words and images, brought together here for the first time, seem to have something to say to each other in ongoing, elongated moments caught and framed for close examination.
City of Palms
Poetry. "Like his early teacher Robert Lowell, William Doreski is a poet of vast learning and great intellect. In his ambitious long poem CITY OF PALMS, he interweaves Greek and Roman myths into a brilliantly colored tapestry of stories. In Doreski's recasting of these myths, Penelope betrays Odysseus with all the suitors and with the God Hermes, giving birth to Pan; Orpheus's head sings not from the sea near Lesbos, but at Race Point Beach, two miles behind Provincetown, and Endymion has been rendered pink forever by the hand of a mortician. While wonderfully energetic in the telling, his compelling new poem transforms myth into an examination of the failures of our culture and the devasting effects of our mythological and historical past. Like Dante, the poet digs deeper into the inferno, where history, myth, language and culture intersect only to come face to face with his own mortality. A stunning poem, ripping with anger, cosmic irony, deadpan humor, and pathos."—Jeff Friedman
The Sun Keeps Setting
The Sun Keeps Setting examines in memoir-form the difficulties of dealing with aging and illness. Written as a daily journal, journal, thereby resisting outline, it focuses on my eighty-one-year-old fathers 1996 bypass surgery and the effect it had on the rest of the family. It deals with the immediately difficulties of complex medical decisions, the prospect of long-term nursing home confinement, financial strain and potential ruin, and the inevitable dredging up of the past such crises engender. I have dwelt at some length on the experience of growing up with my father and consequently define him through my own life. Being on the leading edge of the baby-boom generation, as the media keeps...
Mist in Their Eyes
In his new book, William Doreski brilliantly blends wit, humor, and irony to chart our failed excursions to connect with others in the 21st century. Mist in Their Eyes contains wondrous turns and magical twists, but at the center of the collection is an intellect that is always questioning what the heart asks us to believe. A master of formal invention. - Jeff Friedman, author of Pretenders and Floating Tales.
The Modern Voice in American Poetry
Proposing that modern American poetry requires "limber criticism", informed but not straitjacketed by contemporary theory, William Doreski links the major American modernists to each other and to the larger social and cultural world. His concerns include voice, rhetoric, history, and interiority (imagination) and exteriority (landscape). Doreski examines the work of well-known poets - concentrating on Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and Robert Lowell, but also including Alan Dugan, Robert Pinsky, John Ashbery, and Louise Gluck - from a fresh angle, often focusing on less-discussed poems (such as Eliot's "Portrait of a Lady"). Modernist poets experienced a vast shift in the relationship between poetry and society. Two principal themes underlie Doreski's criticism of their work: first, that they turned to drama, prose fiction, and extraliterary sources to expand the rhetorical range of their poetics; second, that their poetry demonstrates their conflict between a responsibility to history, tradition, or society and their desire to generate a world of their own making.
Robert Lowell's Shifting Colors
"Following the course of Lowell's poetic development, Doreski argues that the ambiguity of Lowell's social and religious beliefs, as far as the poems express them, is functional, and that the formal restraints of Lowell's poems serve to reveal rather than mask the difficulties he found in formulating public and private values."--BOOK JACKET.
Wallace Stevens In Theory
The modernist poetry of Wallace Stevens is replete with moments of theorizing. Stevens regarded poetry as an abstract medium through which to think about and theorize not only philosophical concepts like metaphor and reality, but also a unifying thesis about the nature of poetry itself. At the same time, literary theorists and philosophers have often turned to Stevens as a canonical reference point and influence. In the centenary year of Wallace Stevens’s first collection Harmonium (1923), this collection asks what it means to theorize with Stevens today. Through a range of critical and theoretical perspectives, this book seeks to describe the myriad kinds of thinking sponsored by Stevens’s poetry and explores how contemporary literary theory might be invigorated through readings of Stevens.
