Professor Harriman's Steam Air-Ship

by TERESE SVOBODA

Overview

Poetry. PROFESSOR HARRIMAN'S STEAM AIR-SHIP charts a contemporary landscape of violence and death while reaching for joy and aiming for flight. This courageous, powerful collection stands among Svoboda's finest work.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781911335184
Publisher:	Continental Sales, Inc.
Publication date:	09/29/2016
Pages:	84
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

A recent Guggenheim fellow, Terese Svoboda is the author of six previous collections of poetry, an opera, a biography, six novels, a memoir, and a book of translations from Nuer. Currently teaching at Stony Brook/Southampton, Svoboda has twice been Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Hawaii and has held the McGee Professorship at Davidson. She has taught at Williams, Sarah Lawrence, Columbia School of the Arts, College of William and Mary, and many other institutions.

Table of Contents

I

Whose Little Airplane Are You? 10

The Talking Tea-Kettle 11

The Injured Future 15

Orlando Is Us 16

Grim Sleeper 17

Neighborhood Watch 19

Waziristan 20

Baghdad Calls 22

Hope Wanted Alive 23

Orpheus 24

Setsuden 25

Second Thanksgiving 26

Washington: D for Dream, C for Cruel 27

Red Summer 1919 28

II

Noble Savage 32

Good Vibrations 35

Green Girls 37

Ez Passitis 39

Airport News 40

Odysseus's Mother-In-Law 46

Glass of Water Encounter 49

Mother Doesn't Bite 50

Thanatos Machine 51

Why Wax, Why Not Wane? 52

Death March 54

Caned 55

Boy on Crutches 56

Dark Daddy 57

Countess Lethargy 58

III

Professor Harriman's Steam Air-Ship 60

IV

It Night Was 70

Circus for a Small Boy 71

Body Mostly Flown 72

The Day Mother Cried 73

Freud's Container 74

On the Anniversary 76

Headstone 77

Pietà 78

Notes 81

Acknowledgements 82