Scorpio Rising : Selected Poems
Department
English
Document Type
Book
Files
Description
Culled from six previous collections, Scorpio Rising: Selected Poems, is the culmination of a thirty-five-year career. Katrovas's early poems reflect a harrowing childhood on the highways of America as his parents fled the FBI. They also probe the gas-lit backstreets of New Orleans's French Quarter where "the protean human heart/is nature's crime against us." Witness to Prague's Velvet Revolution while on a Fulbright Fellowship, Katrovas in his later poems meditates upon his own American identity as he raises bi-cultural, bilingual daughters. Katrovas's formal verse has an edge we do not usually associate with traditionally formal poetry. Understanding that all gendered identity is a construction, Katrovas explores, as few lyric poets have, the linguistic and emotional contours of "masculinity."
Call number in WMU's library
PS3561.A74 S36 2011 (WMU Authors Collection)
ISBN
9780887485343
Publication Date
2011
Publisher
Carnegie Mellon University Press
City
Pittsburgh
Keywords
poetry
Disciplines
Poetry
Recommended Citation
Katrovas, Richard, "Scorpio Rising : Selected Poems" (2011). All Books and Monographs by WMU Authors. 55.
https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/books/55