Victory and Her Opposites: A Guide

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Poetry. Amy England's first Tupelo poetry collection was so distinctive and stimulating that she was said to have quite literally re-created the art form. In this new, extraordinary volume, she shows us that she was just getting started. Combining various mediums to depict and illuminate a unique vision that she experienced while visiting an archaeological excavation many years ago, England has rewritten the rules and fashioned a collection even more surprising. Drawings and photographs entwine with her ...

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Overview

Poetry. Amy England's first Tupelo poetry collection was so distinctive and stimulating that she was said to have quite literally re-created the art form. In this new, extraordinary volume, she shows us that she was just getting started. Combining various mediums to depict and illuminate a unique vision that she experienced while visiting an archaeological excavation many years ago, England has rewritten the rules and fashioned a collection even more surprising. Drawings and photographs entwine with her astonishing poetry and prose to lavishly demonstrate how the fragments and rubble of history goad the imagination into picturing an original and newly created whole.

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781932195378
  • Publisher: Tupelo Press
  • Publication date: 6/1/2007
  • Pages: 108

Meet the Author

Amy England received her PhD in English and creative writing from the University of Denver in 1999. Aside from Tupelo Press' publication of her first book of poems, The Flute Ship 'Castricum', her work has recently appeared in The Best American Poetry 2001, Chicago Review, Hawaii Review, The Seattle Review, International Poetry Review, TriQuarterly, Denver Quarterly, McSweeney's, Fence, Volt, and Fish Drum. She is the editor of Transparent Tiger Press, which publishes poetry chapbooks.

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Table of Contents


Sacrificing All to Science     3
The Island in History     9
Religion     15
In the Field     16
Itinerary     19
Jericho, Trumpet     20
House of Lords     21
Sacristy     24
The Largest Round Building of Classical Antiquity     29
Mentioned by Ancient Poets     32
Etymologies to Be Written on Snakes and Used for Scale     33
Salient Apse     36
Anathematotheke     41
Architectural Elements of Alter     44
Iasion: A Tragedy     47
Ruinwork     56
The Sleeping Traveler     58
Erosion Experiment     59
Gatehouse     86
A Noh Play in Which the Ghost Does Not Reveal Itself     87
This Is Built of Simile     89
Starting with Davenport's Archilochos     91
Artifact     96
The Art of the Snake Story     98
Courtyard     104
Citations     105
Bibliography     106
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