[bctt tweet=”For decades, poet Peter Oresick’s been keeping it real.”]“In the introduction to Peter Oresick’s Iconoscope (New and Selected Poems), the book’s title is said to reference “the first workable camera in early electronic television” (developed at Westinghouse). It’s an apt metaphor for the ways of seeing employed in this new University of Pittsburgh Press release. The 144-page collection includes both new work and selections from Definitions (1990) and the well-received Warhol-o-rama (2008). It’s a stirring retrospective, with narrative poems focusing on the working class and his Eastern European family bookending more playful forms used in Warhol-o-rama.
As the son and grandson of Ford City glassworkers, Oresick comes by his blue-collar roots honestly. This Pittsburgh resident, a Pitt grad and accomplished painter, has headed master’s programs and taught classes on writing and publishing locally and internationally.”
Cover reveal: Peter Oresick, Iconoscope; Design: @syn_tax pic.twitter.com/R5a2pRdPrv
— Pitt Poetry Series (@PittPoetry) June 15, 2015