A Cut and Paste Country

by Kathleen Hart

Overview

A Cut-and-Paste Country is comprised of poems which explore the narratives of both characters and artists who cut and paste in an effort to create personal refuges of beauty and peace. We all do much the same, of course, though our created worlds exist mostly in our heads. In every case, however, Hart shows us that in the end we all engage in a "praise of our Maker."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780996930505
Publisher:	Franciscan University Press
Publication date:	01/22/2016
Pages:	104
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 7.70(h) x 0.50(d)

Table of Contents

A Cut-and-Paste Country 1

Bathrobe Journeying 4

Brunelleschi's Dome 6

That Being Said 9

C. W. Post's Personal Difficulties 11

C. W. Post Making Rain 12

Frederic Tudor Regains His Sanity 14

According to the Diagnostic Manual, You Have 15

Wakefield Leaving and Returning 17

The Trellis 19

The Deaf Composer 21

The Theory of Everything 23

If You Want to Make Your Past a Foreign Country 25

Almanac for the Wrong Region 28

Conditions Favorable For 30

Engineering Is the Rearrangement of What Is 31

What Is Beautiful about This City 33

Gerald Burg Wants to Hold History in His Hands 34

Only a Few Weeks Ago 38

Frederic Church's Imagined Country 41

Caramoor 42

Addison Mizner in the 1928 Season 45

The Language Spoken at Home 47

First Language 48

Agecroft Hall 49

A True and Perfect Story 50

Just Like in the Spiritual 52

Even when Encountering Difficulty 53

The Greenland Problem 54

Vivaldi Drifting 55

Vermeer's Song 57

Conformation 58

How Many Tenses Are in This Painting? 60

The Unreliable Witness 62

Catching the Rope 63

All the Month? Not April 64

Behind the Gates 66

Mid-Life 67

The Uses of Magic 68

When My Name Escapes Me 69

A Day Out of Sequence 70

Irrational Acts 72

The Third Way 73

The Letting Go 74

Architecture 75

Sir Percy Fawcett's Lost City 76

The Country That Is Everywhere 78

A Right Spirit 81

John R. Brinkley's Greatest Escape 82

Abdication 85

Everywhere in the City 87

Also Celebrate 91

The Unmaking of Thaddeus S. C. Lowe 93

Acknowledgments 93

Sources for Eclectic Poems 97