Spirit cabinet - Wojahn, David (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002)
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I; To Hermes Are Attributed Three Inventions: Music,Writing, Fire; Cartouche; To the Memory of Paul Celan; Symposium; Zola the Hobbyist: 1895; And the Unclean Spirits Went Out of the Man, and Entered into Swine; Testings, 1956; Pavlov's Century; Stalin's Library Card; Tribulation Eclogue; The Art of Poetry; II; Poison, 1959; The Ravenswood; Word Horde against the Gnostics; After Propertius; "Asend the Stare: On Top Floor Please Ring Bell"; Firstborn of Egypt; Days of 1994; For the Centenary of Hart Crane; Dirge with Proofs; Spirit Cabinet; III; Crayola; IV; Can't You Spare Me Over?
Written on the Due Date of a Son Never Born Prayer to George Oppen; For Townes Van Zandt, 1946-1997; A Pressure That Makes a Shape as You Go on Describing; Arion; Alchemy, Mother Ship, Mile One One Seven; Inscribed on Handmade Paper on the Due Date of a Daughter Never Born; Choiron; Red Ochre; Recovery Room: Seven Hells; Triclinium: Couple Bending to a Burning Photo; Kill Born,Weed Smoke, Chk Mark, Onchola Senn; Notes; Acknowledgments
Spirit Cabinet is an ambitious work, seamlessly mixing autobiography with subjects ranging from pop music to ancient Egypt, from Stalin's reading habits to Shackleton's ill-fated Antarctic expedition. Formally inventive, elegiac and redemptive, aesthetically and emotionally risky, this is Wojahn's most ingenious and compelling collection.