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NEW AND COLLECTED POEMS OF JANE GENTRY
A consummate poet, Jane Gentry (1941--2014) possessed an uncanny ability to spin quietly expansive and wise verses from small details, objects, and remembered moments. Her poetry is deeply rooted in place, exuding a strong connection to the life and land of her native Kentucky. Gentry was also a bel...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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LEXINGTON :
UNIV PR OF KENTUCKY,
2017.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover
- Praise for The New and Collected Poems of Jane Gentry
- About the Thomas D. Clark Medallion
- TItle Page
- Copyright Page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Book: A Garden in Kentucky
- Part I
- A Garden in Kentucky
- The Drum Majorette Marries at Calvary Baptist
- Grandfather Lights the Gas Stove
- Maugie's Heaven
- Aunt Lucy
- Great-Grandfather's Dog, High, on a Tintype
- The Old Place, 1949
- Washing Sheets in July
- Teddy
- For My Father
- Thinking of Charlie B. on July 4
- Snow in the Cemetery
- My Mother's Clothes
- Tasks
- Presences
- Part II
- A Photograph of Hollins Abroaders Before the Caryatids
- LIFE, June, 1944, Featuring the Bayeux Tapestry
- The Cricket in the Elevator Shaft
- A Moment in the Dark
- For H., Resolved into a Moth While Watching Television in the Next Room
- Hound
- Liberty Above New Haven The Statue on East Rock
- Ten Years Ago You Left and Now We Take a Walk Together
- Scarecrow
- Blizzard
- Moving
- Your Vacation
- Susannah
- Susannah's Bones
- St. Lucy the Housekeeper
- Zero
- Things That Fly Overhead at Lake Malone
- Leaving Lucy, September, 1990
- In a Chinese Landscape
- Two Flowers for My Father
- On a Day of Beautiful Clouds
- Part III
- Telemakhos at Festival Market Thinks of His Father
- Eleuthera
- Flood
- Eros
- In the Darkness
- By the Sea: The Dream of the Body
- Epiphany, 1992
- Janus
- The Whale
- On a Perfect Day
- A Glimpse
- In the Kroger: For Jim, His Daughter Dead in a Wreck
- The Sudden Appearance of Love
- By Dark
- Aubade
- February 23, in the Cemetery
- Exercise in the Cemetery
- Heike's Window at Nightfall, from Versailles Cemetery
- The Locust
- In the Moment of My Death: For My Father
- Hungry Fire
- Book: Portrait of the Artist as a White Pig
- Part I
- A Human House.
- The Concept of Morning
- Roofer
- Desire
- From my Attic Window
- Among the Stations of the Cross on the Grounds of Taylor Manor Nursing Home
- Waking Up, in May
- Riddle
- The News
- Diana, of a Certain Age, Takes a Bath
- The Song of the Furnace
- Realty
- November
- Sam's Club in Winter
- Hunting for a Christmas Tree after Dark
- Part II
- My Life Story
- In the House with the Red Roof
- The Red Taffeta Dress
- Their Bed
- My Mother's Rooms
- Leaving the Shades Up
- Ultrasound
- Aubade
- To My Grandson, in the Womb, on Washington Heights
- Skating
- Your Company
- Sitting with Aunt Mary in Hospice
- The Reading Lamp
- Eating a Pear from the Tree My Father Planted Thirty-One Years Ago
- One Summer in the Life of My Mother
- III
- Portrait of the Artist as a White Pig
- At Pleasant Hill, Kentucky, in January
- Taking the Train from Maysville to New York
- The Light at the End of the Tunnel
- Utopia: An Idyll
- Rose Week in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden
- On the Eve of War with Iraq
- My Two Daughters in Paris
- Nike of Samothrace
- Les Jardins du Luxembourg
- Leaving the Sidewalk Cafe
- Portrait of Sue Richards as a Young Girl
- The Clouds, My Mother
- Watching Stars
- Parable of the Reverse Sunset
- First Kiss
- April in Your Garden
- Nearby
- By Your Small Lake
- At Harmony Landing
- Penelope's Night Out
- Sleeping with You
- The Traveler
- The Chain: A True Account
- Late Poems
- Part I
- Train Window
- In October
- Haiku for the New Year, 2010
- Winter Moon
- A Poem
- November Wind
- Iddy Romps
- Crows
- Out of Season
- What Does it Take to Be Happy
- Sudden Storm on Eleuthera
- My Ease
- Bird and Bear
- Hurray
- September
- March Wind
- Letters for Butterfly
- NIght Snow
- Haiku
- Honeysuckle
- The Cattle Man
- Part II
- Diana of Times Square
- Fall of the Year.
- The Duties of the Old
- My Made Bed
- Eve in the Orchard
- Indiana Shoot-out
- At Cumae
- My Tin Ear
- From My Passing Car I See in the Cemetery
- HE's Off to the MLA
- My First Friends
- Landing in Atlanta
- Abraham Lincoln in Kentucky
- Alexander Gardner's November 8, 1863 Photograph of Lincoln
- At Peterson's Boarding House
- Memorial Day 2010
- Night Beasts in the Backyard
- Now
- Outside Eden
- Mary Daniel
- Part III
- May Weather
- The Berry Bowls
- Tantalus
- After Sundown
- Crossing from Providence To Newport
- The Blessing
- In the Japanese Garden at Asticou Inn
- My Screensaver
- Intensive Care, Oncology
- Why Marriage Works
- The Lamp
- Part IV
- At Auction, July 3, 1970
- Breath
- In the First Hours of Your Life
- Andy's Breath
- My Grown Daughters Asleep in the Same Bed
- Disappointing the Dead
- A Nap in Summer
- Sleeping in the bed with Jake, My Grandson, Three Years Old
- At Newark Airport, Looling Toward Mecca
- Acknowledgments
- Title Index
- Index of First Lines.