Bargain With The Watchman (the Oxford Poets)

Bargain With The Watchman Is American-born Eva Salzman's Second Book Of Poems. Her Energy, Vitality, And Capacity For Satire Persist In Bold, Outspoken Poetry, Often Disconcerting, Always Compelling And Controlled. The Collection Includes A Couple Of Sequences: 'poor Relations' Is Both Cool And Emotional In Its Dealings With Erotic And Familial Love, And 'masques' Is A Subversive Look At The Muses. Trepanned -- Conditional -- Alex, Tiffany, Meg -- Sexual Love -- Pilgrim -- Night-flower -- The Lover Of Women -- Apocrypha -- Spells -- Tracy Pentecost -- Bargain With The Watchman -- Masque I. Interlude -- Masque Ii. The Necessary Voyeur -- Masque Iii. Euterpe The Impostor -- Masque Iv. The Male Polyhymnia Turns To Crime -- Masque V. The Hypochondriacal Muse -- Masque Vi. Terpsichore In Training -- Masque Vii. Mneme As Salesman -- Masque Viii. The Muse Of Spleen -- Masque Ix. Possible Muses -- Masque X. Terpsichore Twice -- Masque Xi. Irish Lover -- Masque Xii. An Epic In Me -- Poor Relation: Lucky Strikes -- Poor Relation: Quogue Refuge -- Poor Relation: Boreal Owl -- Poor Relation: Natural Habitats -- Poor Relation: Double Crossing -- Poor Relation: Grandmother -- Poor Relation: Painting By Numbers -- Poor Relation: Anschluss -- Poor Relation: Memorable -- Poor Relation: Poor Relations -- Poor Relation: Homesteading -- Poor Relation: Christmas At The In-laws -- Poor Relation: Case History -- Poor Relation: Whiteout -- Poor Relation: Grief -- Poor Relation: Ursi's Arcadia. Eva Salzman. Oxford University Press Paperback--t.p. Verso. Poems.