6 10 339 https://cassity.digitalscholarship.emory.edu/files/original/4659953b2c249e2b6bcda09c40b0109b.pdf 8c47d62aa6eeb915f4caad7eb3cb639c PDF Text Text Tectonics of the Dessert Plate I have lifelong friend who is, at fifty-nine-Hope springs eternal--grimly social climbing still. "You've gotten where you're going to get," I tell him. Where Can still be vague: a Cincinnati upper crust By now, but on its sticky underside. A week Before my visit comes the briefing. "Rent a tux," He telephones. "It's black tie at the Loridans"." As frequent visitor I am an ornament Or an embarrassment, depending on which rung He's trying for. The Loridans cannot be much. "And if you have long underwear bring it along. They keep the house at fifty." As the climb works out, The one tuxedo in the dining room is his. The Loridans assume, correctly, we aren't much. Our host has on a suit and sweater, as have I. Lap robes would be appropriate. The granite house Has twenty-seven rooms, each colder than the next, None colder than our food. "We've thought about gas logs," Says Mrs. Loridans, "but we so love the fire." Electric warming trays are not some counterfeit Of chafing dishes, I might add, but hold my peace. Madame turns vicious. "My, how formal we've become." "The University Yearbook. I'm O.D.K. Adviser. We posed for the photographs today." "And then he had to meet my plane," I volunteer. So deft a lie impresses. It deserves support. Two caterers who cannot know qualude from quail Cut up a baked Alaska. Plate tectonics shift. The ice-cream core has melted; its meringue is cold. ... My Fourth of July briefing is elaborate. "You'll like the two Crevecoeurs. Baudoin if not La Mere. It's her I got that '67 Fleetwood from." Upgrading golden oldies is a form of climb. "Eve almost counts as Taft. Jilted the Senator. Work on your liver. They both drink a lot." They look Echt Deutsch. French names in Cincinnati, I conclude, Are like White servants on the Rand: one-up in chic. I need not say that the famille Crevecoeur outdoes. They have an old Black butler shakier than they, A last survivor of the Underground Railroad, Who is introduced, I swear, as "Uber Oberrein." I need a hearing aid. At Christmas I find out, When the Adviser tries to hire him for an Ho D.K. festivity, Herr Uber's name in fact Is Heber O'Brien. All the food he trolleys out, At seven minutes after midnight, looks superb, �But after six Manhattans, we forget to eat. Baudoin, he says himself, must drink to ease the pain Of his arthritis. Mother simply drinks. Or drinks Because her four-door Cadillac went for a steal. They have a riverfront apartment, double-glazed, But in the blazing July heat, greenhouse effect, And rendered awkward in the sunken living room By countersunk Jacuzzis. For the pain also, I have no doubt. In one of them champagne is chilling. ... "The Mengeldorffs are lovely people." "Let me guess. Alsace-Lorraine." "Shut up. I work with Muniment On this year's Maifest Board." "I'll rent a full dress suit." "There's something else you ought to know. They have this child Who's terribly retarded. Classic Downs Syndrome." "Oh dear. Is white tie adequate? I mean…to meet Society's most fashionable mongoloid…" "He has his own staff, Bitch. His own part of the house." ... That may well be; mainstreaming, though, is more "in" still. So, in a handsome Spanish house--it seems displaced From Montecito or Pacific Palisades-Next to his plastic surgeon, who now makes a guest, And opposite his staff, whose name is Rosa Mae, I brave a musicale with Cincinnati's--be Assured--most eye-corrected mongoloid. As ice And melon balls are passed about, he does not drool, Although his keeper does. She has no upper teeth. He also wields a spoon more gracefully than she. Such is the expertise of private schools nearby. His father, Viktor Mengeldorff, at one of two Steinways, below a portrait and an autograph Of Richard Strauss, the which I covet, for four hands Does Mendelssohn. The other hands are Monument's If she is anyone it is Mama Dionne. Women who bring forth monsters tend to look alike, However differing in skill their corseteers. Her husband has, as we should delicately say, Re-stated his financial picture. He is broke. "Tonight's a sort of yard sale," he confesses. "Who'll Make me an offer on one Steinway and a Strauss?" I would, except that from my rear a kick arrives, To say the joke is absit omen. Who can read �Downfall more surely than a social Alpinist? I am myself quite at my peak of form. I am Outfitted in a full dress suit, and not from some prom Supplier, either. It is borrowed from the high Man on the totem pole, the Maypole, if you like,. Whose capabilities I underestimate: May Festival from O.D.K. is quantum leap. The upgrade in my formal wear is not my choice. At lunch the Crevecoeur butler shook a lemon mousse Upon my only suit. Now, deal with Mengeldorff. "I'll buy the house," I joke, " and move it stone by stone To Carmel Highlands. You must code the pieces, though." I have upon my left hand Madeleine Loridans. "That's not a proper chimney," she is whispering. "It's just a flue encased. It doesn't even smoke." � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Tectonics.wps Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Cassity, Turner. Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 2007-11-25T12:45:29 Date Modified Date on which the resource was changed. 2007-11-26T12:09:35 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Compaq Presario SR1222NX (Born digital materials), Turner Cassity papers, Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University. Relation A related resource Is part of the Turner Cassity papers, 1948-2009 [http://pid.emory.edu/ark:/25593/8z3tt]. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Type The nature or genre of the resource document Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 282c367f656976e01e4f0376e3a9860e https://cassity.digitalscholarship.emory.edu/files/original/a8630498262bb8014cd12967e2c506bc.pdf 813c79794e1b0e58d82765d19c9b26bf PDF Text Text Tangling with Tanglewood Aaron Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man Might well have served to open the Berlin Olympics; His Americana make "Home on the Range" Sound like authentic Folk, as Appalachian Spring Is Grand Old Opry for Parisians and "les six." His take on "Shall We Gather at the River" works, But does the fine old hymn tune really need his help? Muzak to bury third-rate politicians by, Barber's Adagio for Strings cries out for brass. George Gershwin had his limitations: those few blocks Of Tin Pan Alley. Ira was the genius. Herbert was Irish; Phillip Glass? Space Alien. Scott Joplin "ethnic"; Sousa ethnic Portuguese. There are just two "Americans" worth listening to.: One of them Erich Wolfgang Korngold, one Kurt Weill. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Tangling with Tanglewood.wps Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Cassity, Turner. Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 2007-11-16T14:02:53 Date Modified Date on which the resource was changed. 2008-12-01T13:48:55 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Compaq Presario SR1222NX (Born digital materials), Turner Cassity papers, Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University. Relation A related resource Is part of the Turner Cassity papers, 1948-2009 [http://pid.emory.edu/ark:/25593/8z3tt]. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Type The nature or genre of the resource document Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 6cc78701a44bbafe4ea873b531bba8fa https://cassity.digitalscholarship.emory.edu/files/original/fc2fff721b2ecba4c70556675ab6f9d4.pdf 071b1afa36c41bcfd981998fcc3a488f PDF Text Text The Tailor of the Buddha In Jackson in the fifties, last Ongoing present of that South Before its future tense sets in, My tailor is a man-and-wife Who, being Black, employ a White Of unknown provenance--Beirut?-As front. Extrapolating this From vague endorsements on my checks I smugly and for years assume No one but me has figured out. The bold deceit is blocks away From Mississippi's capitol, Whose poorhouse of a legislature Once a year to buy one suit, Comes in to face a tape, chalk, pins. Of one such house star graduate, The U.S. Senate's Chair Pro Tem, J.O. "The Buddha" Eastland--whom I recognize, alas, too well, My mother having been with him From kindergarten days per du-As a processional of one Advances toward the books of swatches. Measuring the eightfold waist Demands a Levantine discretion. From a quite large fitting room Protuberant, the Senator Sighs, puts his pants back on, and buys. Once Spiro Agnew's been cashiered, This man is one heartbeat away From you know where. He knows, of course He knows, who owns this tailor shop, And so does every other pol. The old art of the possible Is that too of the blind eye turned, And in good time, in Washington, To front the session's opening, On camera--behind the Mace, As one might say--the Buddha comes, Outfitted in concealing cloth Whose origins I wholly know. The worst of it? He might have been Among our better presidents. A comment on the going cut? � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Tailor of the Buddha.wps Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Cassity, Turner. Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 2007-10-08T17:51:36 Date Modified Date on which the resource was changed. 2007-10-11T11:46:16 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Compaq Presario SR1222NX (Born digital materials), Turner Cassity papers, Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University. Relation A related resource Is part of the Turner Cassity papers, 1948-2009 [http://pid.emory.edu/ark:/25593/8z3tt]. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Type The nature or genre of the resource document Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context a04f1f6074b275171117acafef1de63d https://cassity.digitalscholarship.emory.edu/files/original/5abf1913b67b8e3c29d3faa2c8307ae4.pdf 9870010ee8cfdbef4491ccf6a1b062f0 PDF Text Text Tadzio in Trieste If I’m pursued, I know it. Pursuers always show it. But why hold back, Signore? Too proud to make your foray? Our wide canal’s not Venice; Minors here aren’t menace. Suppliers, rather, suited To a city bruited To be Hanseatic On the Adriatic; Be--as who knows who says-“Third entrance to the Suez.” If Port Said’s the standard, Local vice is slandered. Promise, though, is present In each pre-adolescent. It’s an art, my saunter. Offer; I will counter. We have no loincloth Lido, But neither, plague’s mosquito. Enjoy your stay, Magician. You chase an ideal vision, But living pre-teens fret you. Felix Krull will get you. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Tadzio in Trieste.wps Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Cassity, Turner. Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 2005-02-22T15:13:39 Date Modified Date on which the resource was changed. 2006-07-30T14:29:10 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Compaq Presario SR1222NX (Born digital materials), Turner Cassity papers, Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University. Relation A related resource Is part of the Turner Cassity papers, 1948-2009 [http://pid.emory.edu/ark:/25593/8z3tt]. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Type The nature or genre of the resource document Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 127b1daa013fa2ff4d0d1254c6f8f6bb Devils_and_Islands TCBKS2 https://cassity.digitalscholarship.emory.edu/files/original/b936ae43468e225322cd161f06707cb0.pdf 4aae8348c614d3f62d2b10fb470a5e9f PDF Text Text After NAFTA Tacoma Narrows or San Luis Rey, A bridge collapse is Fate's unsubtle way Of hinting that what God has left asunder Man ought not join together. Little wonder The nations that have stable borders verge On natural divides. The granite gorge Below Niagara, the salt lagoons Along the Rio Grande. Brass spitoons In Skagway, furs along the farther shore… A bartering by kayak would do more For locals--think: Manhattan bought for beads-Than bridging Bering Strait. What Free Trade needs Is not access but trappers and a vice, Chewing tobacco. Connection has its price; A compromise might be a ferry line. If not an option for Peru and vine. Expectorate, exporter. Do your bit. Protect protectionism. Lots of spit And polish on the ferries we permit. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Tacoma Narrows.wps Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Cassity, Turner. Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 2008-11-21T15:53:15 Date Modified Date on which the resource was changed. 2008-12-02T14:59:23 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Compaq Presario SR1222NX (Born digital materials), Turner Cassity papers, Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University. Relation A related resource Is part of the Turner Cassity papers, 1948-2009 [http://pid.emory.edu/ark:/25593/8z3tt]. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Type The nature or genre of the resource document Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context a54684f95358f839f75743126c377325 https://cassity.digitalscholarship.emory.edu/files/original/ceac05ffaeb04674c9ed28ce1185176c.pdf 7dff2d15176265091ef85828df903584 PDF Text Text Tables of Law In Abyssinia the Ark (Not Noah’s; of the Covenant) Has been assigned a guardian. The Ark is at Axum, brought there By partisans of Sheba. Blind-Although not stricken blind; just old-That guardian cannot describe The tablets, or, indeed, be sure If they are there. The guarded church (No, not a tabernacle), chaste And square, is carved of living rock. A Coptic mockery of Jews, Its dust and distance, negritude, Do not attract the Blood Savoy As did the Turin Shroud. Upkeep, However, Addis Ababa (Which did attract the Royal House) From time to time contributes to. Dividing sea forever closed And pharaonic threat dispersed, The pillars twain, the cloud by day, The fire by night, go on no more, Think not that from this wilderness An Ark or people can be led. Defining texts, on stone, on gold, As Judah’s place is by the Lion, Wherever honored, have their site. Once who is guardian is gone, The lightnings and the vengeance mute, Bright seraphim untrumpeted, Commandments unrevealed by Braille And crystal lenses nowhere kept, If we draw near the vessel lost How can we sense that we profane? Sinai, Salt Lake, is this the place? � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Tables of Law.wps Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Cassity, Turner. Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 2005-02-25T13:37:26 Date Modified Date on which the resource was changed. 2006-04-11T15:34:28 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Compaq Presario SR1222NX (Born digital materials), Turner Cassity papers, Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University. Relation A related resource Is part of the Turner Cassity papers, 1948-2009 [http://pid.emory.edu/ark:/25593/8z3tt]. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Type The nature or genre of the resource document Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context e06e83d35a5005cb728dee4990b73acc Misc_Some_used\Beyond_the_Grand_tour Particulars_of_Hell\Misc_Some_used\Beyond_the_Grand_tour TCBKS2 https://cassity.digitalscholarship.emory.edu/files/original/614e5285ca33a418221efb122d2a2fa7.pdf 447abdfddc751d9344b2d86ddad14046 PDF Text Text Strictures of the Floating World Had Haussmann had bulldozers, what would Paris be? Would Paris be, or, crowded out by boulevards Adjoining curb to curb, as if time after time To prove that parallels will never meet, exist As if a frozen lava flow. The Baron, were He under contract to restore New Orleans, Undoubtedly would have it Venice of the Dredge; Of channels centering at Bourbon and Toulouse, On where the Opera, to its pre-fire design, Will be rebuilt. And to his deep wide channels come, Full force, mosquitoes, Cajun pirogues, river boat Casinos moved on paddle wheels, and Dixieland Musicians pulling up beside the foreign yachts Like flower sellers on their Xochimilco rafts, Or Little Buttercup in blackface. Would a new Director of the Theatre--Reynaldo Hahn, Say--dare produce Herodiade, another tale Of province by empire betrayed? First, edit out That recitative beginning Dors, cite perverse? � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Strictures of the Floating World.wps Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Cassity, Turner. Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 2006-10-07T15:53:39 Date Modified Date on which the resource was changed. 2006-11-13T19:11:10 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Compaq Presario SR1222NX (Born digital materials), Turner Cassity papers, Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University. Relation A related resource Is part of the Turner Cassity papers, 1948-2009 [http://pid.emory.edu/ark:/25593/8z3tt]. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Type The nature or genre of the resource document Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 2aa81b03109c913ed750de58be82f8a4 https://cassity.digitalscholarship.emory.edu/files/original/16d5ba2ed3c7877e834affc23da8170e.pdf 38a323795deecb111c0cccc528d27789 PDF Text Text Stick to the Devil You Know What the success of Cortez tells us is how much The other Indians detested Aztecs. Hate Of vassals for the overlords, of priest for priest, The Corn God for the Sun God, province for the Crown. As if space aliens should land an be embraced, The Spaniards and their horses, cashing in on myth, Enable the revolt. False centaurs, true false gods, First of a line that brings us now the IMF, Hard after Marx and Trotsky. Montezuma’s feet Investors by and by will hold to fiscal fire, To have as their return, if nothing else, a place As cartoon financiers in public-funded art. If Maximilian had kept in place his rule There might be slaves in chains, but fewer murals. Force Of habit means that Revolution and the Church Enjoy lip service equally, as if revered Like either head of some surviving Habsburg crest, Or eagle and the snake of the Republic’s flag, Whose contest long ago declined into a draw, A state of pure disinterest, a Mexico So far from God, so close to Zurich and the gnomes. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Stick to the Devil You Know.wps Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Cassity, Turner. Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 2005-02-25T14:20:19 Date Modified Date on which the resource was changed. 2006-07-26T14:11:16 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Compaq Presario SR1222NX (Born digital materials), Turner Cassity papers, Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University. Relation A related resource Is part of the Turner Cassity papers, 1948-2009 [http://pid.emory.edu/ark:/25593/8z3tt]. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Type The nature or genre of the resource document Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 026b24fd2bb4b0de4b2b5b7c8ee8ada5 Particulars_of_Hell TCBKS2 https://cassity.digitalscholarship.emory.edu/files/original/2efe581ca754d14bf1db4e3b06d2b4b5.pdf 25b3bcb15a54002b77160b91edf7e4ad PDF Text Text Of the poems I like “On the Playground” best. The snowball is fully realized.; the soot removes it instantly from Robert Frost country. I can never keep it straight which is Bierstadt and which is Thomas Moran, although I like both. A couple of Bierstadts-or Morans--are in the Timkin Museum in San Diego. The landscape is Yosemite, in a golden light I never saw there, but tourist posters must be allowed license. In the poem “purple marbled meat” is so startling it should perhaps come toward the end, so as not to make what follows anti-climactic. In what sense ‘fare’ in cloud-fare? Croquet and Oakland Cemetery seem to me so much of the same period I would make more of the game and less of the other details. Wickets as “little headstones of air” is wonderful, although perhaps too ingenious for most readers. In Noah’s flood I would replace or omit the fencepost, as too un-Middle Eastern. If you are going to include a parrot I think you should also include the dove. One might work up and interesting contrast. This afternoon I am off to see the new Bruce Willis movie, “Sin City”, said to be based on a graphic novel, I.e. comic book, produced, I.e. the comic book, as a tribute to film noir. Talk about aesthetic distance… � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Stewart 2.wps Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Cassity, Turner. Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 2005-04-06T12:44:22 Date Modified Date on which the resource was changed. 2005-04-06T12:44:22 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Compaq Presario SR1222NX (Born digital materials), Turner Cassity papers, Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University. Relation A related resource Is part of the Turner Cassity papers, 1948-2009 [http://pid.emory.edu/ark:/25593/8z3tt]. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Type The nature or genre of the resource document Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 8afbcfb9249f057446c5f5a4dc2ca6fa Misc_Some_used Particulars_of_Hell\Misc_Some_used TCBKS2 https://cassity.digitalscholarship.emory.edu/files/original/bebc60a27c3731b8c455b3978560a584.pdf a6a59a5784b368f4a4257aee31569d71 PDF Text Text Stars and Stripes Alaska and Hawaii have Their virtues, although not as stars. The rigid field of forty-eight Somehow more satisfied, as if All fifty, in their rows offset, Their parallax of politics As flag for astigmatic time Set eyes on edge as teeth are set. New Mexico in 1912 And Arizona after that Did not create the disarray Our Civil War did, in the Bars And Stars, at least. The Union Flag Depicted its eleven out As if they shone and still were in.. Assuming, say, Ontario, To spite Quebec, proclaimed itself A fourteenth colony new found, Could Betsy Ross's daughters cope? Completely. Middle age consists Of slicing thinner what is thin. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Stars and Stripes.wps Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Cassity, Turner. Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 2007-02-01T18:24:44 Date Modified Date on which the resource was changed. 2007-02-01T18:26:41 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Compaq Presario SR1222NX (Born digital materials), Turner Cassity papers, Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University. Relation A related resource Is part of the Turner Cassity papers, 1948-2009 [http://pid.emory.edu/ark:/25593/8z3tt]. 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