Controvertibles
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Controvertibles

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Controvertibles

About this book

Controvertibles features more of the refined brilliance and delicate lyricism of this poet, cast in a more meditative mode. Throughout, she examines cultural objects by lifting them out of their usual settings and repositioning them in front of new, disparate backdrops. Doug Flutie's famous Hail Mary pass and Rutger Hauer's role in Blade Runner are contextualized within the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Bob Beamon's world-record-setting long jump in the 1968 Olympics is slowed down and examined in the style of The Matrix's revolutionary bullet time.Samantha Smith, Richard Nixon, the Shroud of Turin, Igor Stravinsky, the largo from Handel's Xerxes, the resurrection of Lazarus, and the groundbreaking 1984 Apple Computer Super Bowl commercial are among the many disparate people and objects Barry uses to explore the multifaceted nature of existence.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. the 1984 Apple Super Bowl commercial as intervention
  3. Porte des Morts as Neutrino
  4. the cabriolet as metempsychosis
  5. the seahorse as transubstantiation
  6. Pernkopf ’s Atlas as Interregnum
  7. habeas corpus as confession
  8. house fire as bildungsroman
  9. the oboe in Handel’s largo from Xerxes as elegy
  10. the short brutish life of Samantha Smith as control
  11. aboriginal cave painting as difficulty
  12. purdah as polemic
  13. the Great Molasses Flood of 1919 as allegory
  14. the landmine as opiate
  15. Ridley Scott’s Gladiator as Partitive Genitive
  16. the long jump as teleportation
  17. mal amour as disciple
  18. Dosso Dossi’s Saint George as Controvertible
  19. crossing the South China Sea as analgesia
  20. figurative poem as psychostasia
  21. the last elephant in Burundi as vessel
  22. Nick Drake’s “Pink Moon” as Infatuation
  23. Hanging Rock as Intervention
  24. domestic violence as Noh play
  25. Pharaoh’s Daughter’s Motivation as New Criticism
  26. the excavated foundations of the Salem Village parsonage as resipiscence
  27. Rembrandt’s The Storm on the Sea of Galilee as Semiotics
  28. Arctic Summer as Analogy
  29. Rage Against the Machine as Plate Tectonics
  30. Vietnamese Dictionary Definition as Self-Portrait
  31. the final scene in Akira Kurosawa’s Ran as condition
  32. Lazarus as Ambiguity
  33. the Blue Grotto as gestation
  34. Stravinsky’s [line diagram] as Approximation
  35. “Jisas Yu Holem Hand Blong Mi” as Dream of Reunification
  36. the knight’s soliloquy as vespers
  37. the Shroud of Turin as admonition
  38. Emmett Till’s Open Casket as La Pietà
  39. self-immolation as self-immolation
  40. snow angels as Michael Furey
  41. untitled as apologia
  42. Richard Nixon’s 1972 Christmas Bombing Campaign as Gospel
  43. ultrasound as palinode
  44. the finite as infinite
  45. imitative fallacy as jeremiad
  46. the long jump as bullet-time
  47. Doug Flutie’s 1984 Orange Bowl Hail Mary as Water into Fire
  48. winter tragedy as fire into air
  49. Rutger Hauer’s Final Lines in Blade Runner as Air into Space
  50. banh chung as aesthetic
  51. Notes
  52. Acknowledgments