Collected here are poems from Peter Oresick’s previous books, beginning withThe Story of Glass (1977), and to them are added 36 new poems called Under the Carpathians. His work—known for working class and Catholic themes—probes labor and social history, post-World War II America, Eastern European identity, Eastern Rite Catholicism, and Russian icons and fine art and especially Pittsburgh-born pop art icon Andy Warhol.
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Reverse Painting on Glass (Kandinsky) |
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6 | (1) |
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7 | (1) |
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8 | (2) |
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10 | (1) |
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11 | (2) |
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13 | (1) |
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14 | (2) |
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16 | (1) |
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17 | (1) |
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18 | (3) |
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21 | (1) |
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22 | (1) |
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23 | (1) |
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My Father with Pulp Fiction, 1935 |
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24 | (1) |
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My Father Who Art in Heaven |
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25 | (2) |
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27 | (1) |
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28 | (2) |
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Autumn Evening at the Window with Brushes |
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30 | (1) |
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31 | (4) |
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To a Museum Guard at Shift Change |
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35 | (1) |
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36 | (1) |
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At the Crypt of the Church of Our Lady of the Veil |
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37 | (2) |
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When in 2009 the G20 Summit Convened in Pittsburgh |
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39 | (2) |
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What the Hermit Zosimus Said |
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41 | (1) |
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Sister Rosaire Kopczenski Enters the Religious Life |
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42 | (1) |
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43 | (4) |
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47 | (1) |
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48 | (1) |
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Fired//On My 49th Birthday |
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49 | (1) |
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50 | (2) |
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52 | (2) |
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This the Very Coinage of My Brain |
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54 | (2) |
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56 | (1) |
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57 | (4) |
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From Warhol-O-Rama (2008) |
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Andy Warhol for Gods Who Must Be Crazy |
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61 | (1) |
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Andy Warhol for Short Attention Spans |
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62 | (1) |
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Andy Warhol for Catholics |
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63 | (1) |
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64 | (2) |
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66 | (4) |
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Andy Warhol for the Taj Warhol |
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70 | (2) |
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Andy Warhol for the Widow of Andy Warhol |
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72 | (1) |
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Andy Warhol for Undergraduates |
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73 | (2) |
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Andy Warhol for the Village Voice Classifieds, 1966 |
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75 | (1) |
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Andy Warhol for Familiar Quotations |
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76 | (1) |
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Warhol, Andy for Indexers |
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77 | (4) |
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81 | (2) |
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One of Many Bars in Ford City, Pennsylvania |
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83 | (1) |
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84 | (1) |
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Landscape with Unemployed, 1934 |
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86 | (3) |
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The Annual PPG Pensioners' Picnic |
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After the Deindustrialization of America, My Father Enters Television Repair |
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90 | (3) |
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The Social Impact of Corporate Disinvestment |
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93 | (2) |
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Toward the Heaven of Full Employment |
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95 | (1) |
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96 | (1) |
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98 | (2) |
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100 | (1) |
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At a Jewish Cemetery in Pittsburgh |
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101 | (1) |
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102 | (1) |
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103 | (1) |
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104 | (3) |
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107 | (1) |
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108 | (1) |
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109 | (1) |
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Peter Oresick is a poet whose works include Warhol-o-rama, Definitions, and Working Classics: Poems on Industrial Life. He has taught at Carnegie Mellon University, Chatham University, the University of Pittsburgh, and Emerson College.
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