The Dean of Discipline

by Michael Waters

Overview

In the richly musical and boldly imaginative poems of The Dean of Discipline, Michael Waters explores the confluences of the sensual and the spiritual, and renders their mysteries with precision and clarity. The title evokes the rigorous consciousness that prods the artist to deepen into his craft. Line by line, Waters delivers the passionate eloquence and intensity that distinguish his poems.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780822983330
Publisher:	University of Pittsburgh Press
Publication date:	05/11/2018
Series:	Pitt Poetry Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	80
File size:	703 KB

About the Author

Michael Waters’s books of poetry include Celestial Joyride, Gospel Night, Darling Vulgarity, and Parthenopi: New and Selected Poems. He is the coeditor of Reel Verse: Poems about the Movies, Contemporary American Poetry, and Perfect in Their Art: Poems on Boxing from Homer to Ali. He has chaired the poetry panel for the National Book Awards. Recipient of five Pushcart Prizes and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Fulbright Foundation, and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Waters is professor of English at Monmouth University and Visiting Distinguished Professor in the Drew University MFA program.

Table of Contents

Contents → Novae Cad The Argument Madam Marie Cannibal Ieșire → Swamp Orchid Ecstasy Friends Have Made Love in Strange Spaces Treasure Attic Arrival Remember, Body . . . Postscript to Remember, Body . . . Synesthesia → Transmigration Currier and Ives Catechism Pass-the-Plate Classic Cocktail Detention Psychological Sit-up McSorley’s (1969) The Bookshelf The Deadwood Cautionary Tale My Mourners → Performance Artist Misterioso Karakul Zeus, Cyclops, Plato, Gaia . . . Plein Air and Resurrectionist (1880) Duchamp Agnes Martin Jacquard Genealogy Sophie Rose Sachsenhausen White Fields → Poetry Notes Acknowledgments

Editorial Reviews

Past praise for Michael Waters:

“Waters stands among the best American poets writing today.” —Roberto Bonazzi, San Antonio Express-News
 


Past praise for Michael Waters:

"Waters’ pleasure in the figurative and musical possibilities of language is evident again and again." —Tony Roberts, Stand (UK)


"The Dean of Discipline's absorbing subject is the making of art, showing and teaching us a poet's meticulous and raucous devotion so that we gain a sound and sense of how the poems are, in fact, created." —The Georgia Review 


"Michael Waters is the ablest poet of an able generation." —Floyd Collins, Gettysburg Review 


"The Dean of Discipline...never swerves from looking to language to explore universal longings through the particularities of human experience." —Terry Lucas, The Widening Spell

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