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Ghost in a red hat, poems, Rosanna Warren

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poetry

Ghost in a red hat

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Rosanna Warren

poems

A new collection from the writer who has been called "an incomparable poet in her generation" (John Hollander)In Ghost in a Red Hat, her fifth collection, Rosanna Warren draws inspiration not only from her own life but also from the works of other artists, both classical and contemporary, real and imagined. Warren explores the political and the personal through myth, history, elegy, and erotic lyric. She eulogizes her mother in poems such as "Mediterranean," where she writes, "the mystery was / not that she walked there, ten years after her death, / / but that she vanished, and let twilight take her place--." In other poems, Warren contemplates wreckage and sorrow in family life, in Hurricane Katrina, and in the Trojan War, but also moments of eerie blessing. In her most forceful collection to date, she obsessively traces themes, both ancient and modern, in a voice compelling and deeply persuasive. --Book Jacket

Mediterranean -- Mistral I -- Mistral II -- Maternal -- Runes -- Tempus fugit -- Fear -- For D. -- At the lake -- Notes -- Aftermath -- Charon -- A kosmos -- Porta portese -- Fire -- After -- Palaces -- Ocular -- Odyssey -- Family: a novel -- Man in stream -- Harbor -- Forgiveness -- Ice -- Water damage -- Forty-second Street -- Le silence -- Intermezzo, piano solo -- Antipope -- From the notebooks of Anne Verveine, VI -- From the notebooks of Anne Verveine, VII -- Embarcation pour Cythere -- Earthworks -- Funeral -- The latch -- Liszt, overheard -- Acela -- Aubade -- D minor -- Scat -- Romanesque -- Hydrangea -- Oranges -- Ghost in a red hat