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Twenty first century blues /

Death, fame, art, and religion become comic subjects in Twenty First Century Blues, the fourth collection from Richard Cecil. Whether elegizing his predecessors, predicting his own end, channeling Dickinson's "corpse-eye-view of stony death," or imagining Yeats living in Indiana and d...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cecil, Richard, 1944-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Carbondale : Crab Orchard Review : Southern Illinois University Press, ©2004.
Colección:Crab Orchard award series in poetry.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Lament for the makers
  • Catechism
  • Albi cathedral
  • Limbo
  • Let's pretend
  • Anti ode to autumn
  • Discuss "divine justice in The Inferno"
  • Fool's gold
  • The funeral director : against cremation
  • The worst day of the year
  • Portrait of five women and a cat
  • The writing requirement
  • To the poet who skipped my reading & died
  • A letter to William Butler Yeats
  • Package tour
  • There's no place like home
  • Almost an apartment in Antibes
  • Evolution in Indiana
  • Heaven
  • As you like it
  • Let's go!
  • A rare bird
  • Where am I?
  • The Tower of Babel
  • Internal exile
  • Written in exile
  • Falling off the wagon
  • A Christmas poem
  • Holy sonnet
  • On being asked to contribute to the Idiot's guide to poetry
  • Sailing to Pesaro
  • 2001 : HAL, meet Dell
  • Summer faculty enrichment grant application
  • Meditation on a half-line of Shakespeare's
  • Letter of recommendation
  • A lesson in generosity
  • Contrary elegy
  • Summer diet
  • Oona
  • Ghosts in the kitchen
  • Roots
  • Happy birthday, Richard!
  • The diver
  • Final exercise--the rain poem
  • November's advice
  • Flying home
  • Twenty-first century blues.