Into the Ruins

Frederick Glaysher's Into the Ruins confronts much of the human experience left out of the balance by postmodern poetry, often compared to the Alexandrians and the Neoterics, when writers similarly concentrated on the minor themes of personal life, while ignoring the challenging experience of the public realm. Suffused with a uniquely global tragic vision, Into the Ruins has its gaze fixed firmly on the 21st Century.

Frederick Glaysher has published more than a dozen reviews, poems, and literary essays. As a poet-critic, his literary essay "A Poet Looks at Saul Bellow's Soul" appears in Saul Bellow and the Struggle at the Center.

Preface

ix

I

The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters

3

(1)

Midnight Visitors

4

(1)

The Pit of Darkness

5

(1)

Danse Macabre

6

(1)

Locusts

7

(2)

Camp II

9

(1)

Gulag Wayfarers

10

(1)

Oracle Bones

11

(1)

Heartland America

12

(3)

II

Into the Ruin

15

(5)

Old Baltimore

20

(1)

Rodin's Gates of Hell

21

(3)

Hibakusha Nightmare

24

(1)

Advent of the Beast

25

(1)

Raskolnikov's Dream

26

(1)

To the New City

27

(2)

Long Journey Through Night

29

(1)

The Crowned Maitreya

30

(2)

Carnelian Blemish

32

(1)

Leader of the People

33

(2)

Vignette

35

(1)

Chairman of the Board

36

(2)

At a Mass Grave

38

(1)

Wild Goose Pagodas

39

(4)

III

A Conversation on the Forum

43

(4)

Mud-Wrestlers

47

(1)

Derrida in Doubt

48

(1)

The Looking-Glass

49

(4)

IV

Elijah Lovejoy

53

(1)

Eleanor Roosevelt

54

(1)

Albert Einstein

55

(1)

Dag Hammarskjld

56

(1)

Homage to Mark Tobey

57

(3)

Elegy for Robert Hayden

60

(3)

V

To Penelope

63

(1)

Intimations

64

(1)

Kagi

65

(1)

Basic Training

66

(1)

A Visit to Aunt Amy's

67

(1)

Leaving the Old Country

68

(1)

The Dream

69

(1)

The Dark Wood

70

(1)

Chamber Music

71

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