Spirit Cabinet

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.

I

To Hermes Are Attributed Three Inventions: Music, Writing, Fire

3

(2)

Cartouche

5

(3)

To the Memory of Paul Celan

8

(3)

Symposium

11

(3)

Zola the Hobbyist: 1895

14

(2)

And the Unclean Spirits Went Out of the Man, and Entered into Swine

16

(1)

Testings, 1956

17

(1)

Pavlov's Century

18

(2)

Stalin's Library Card

20

(7)

Tribulation Eclogue

27

(3)

The Art of Poetry

30

(5)

II

Poison, 1959

35

(1)

The Ravenswood

36

(3)

Word Horde against the Gnostics

39

(3)

After Propertius

42

(3)

``Asend the Stare: On Top Floor Please Ring Bell''

45

(1)

Firstborn of Egypt

46

(1)

Days of 1994

47

(2)

For the Centenary of Hart Crane

49

(4)

Dirge with Proofs

53

(1)

Spirit Cabinet

54

(3)

III

Crayola

57

(28)

IV

Can't You Spare Me Over?

85

(3)

Written on the Due Date of a Son Never Born

88

(1)

Prayer to George Oppen

89

(2)

For Townes Van Zandt, 1946-1997

91

(3)

A Pressure That Makes a Shape as You Go on Describing

94

(2)

Arion

96

(2)

Alchemy, Mother Ship, Mile One One Seven

98

(3)

Inscribed on Handmade Paper on the Due Date of a Daughter Never Born

101

(1)

Choiron

102

(2)

Red Ochre

104

(2)

Recovery Room: Seven Hells

106

(2)

Triclinium: Couple Bending to a Burning Photo

108

(4)

Kill Born, Weed Smoke, Chk Mark, Onchola Senn

112

(3)

Notes

115

(4)

Acknowledgments

119

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