Shadow Ball : New and Selected Poems /
An accessible new and selected collection of poems for poetry insiders and general readers. Powerful, passionate, humorous, and often complex, yet fun to read. They go down easy, but pack a whallop.
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania :
University of Pittsburgh Press,
[2009]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contents
- from Reading the Water 1997
- The Mummy Meets Hot-Headed Naked Ice-Borers
- The Death of Santa Claus
- Prayer for the Man Who Mugged My Father, 72
- Spiders
- The Crane Boy
- One Story
- In Praise of Pliny
- Umbrellas
- Broken Toe
- Peaches
- Invocation to Allen as the Muse Euterpe
- The Shape of History
- from Liver 1999
- Wedding Dress
- Over the Town
- Biblical Also-Rans
- Musk Turtle
- Tone of Voice
- Tenderness in Men
- Prozac
- Byron, Keats, and Shelley
- Someone Else�s Good News
- Losing My Hair
- Love PoetryDescent
- from Tulip Farms and Leper Colonies 2001
- Did That Really Happen?
- To Prove that We Existed Before You Were Born,
- Charles Harper Webb
- Vikings
- A Salesman and a Librarian
- Death Comes to the Baby Boom
- Waking at 3 A.M.
- Cocksucker
- Waiting
- Socks
- To Make My Countrymen Love Poetry
- from Hot Popsicles 2005
- Consciousness
- Rat Defeated in a Landslide
- To Set Himself Off from the Crowd,
- Conan the Barbarian
- A Ticklish Situation
- Judge Frosty Presiding
- Imp of the Verbose
- Hot PopsiclesSuperman, Old
- Making Things Right
- from Amplified Dog 2006
- Amplified Dog
- Ooh My Soul
- My Wife Insists That, On Our First Date, I Told Her I Had Seven Kinds of Hair
- The New World Book of Webbs
- Pumpkin Envy
- Cat Possessed by Poet Keats
- Prayer to Tear the Sperm-Dam Down
- The Animals Are Leaving
- A Meal Not Eaten
- A Grand Opening of Hearts
- The Open-Air Recital Survived a Shaky Start
- How to Live
- New Poems
- Shadow Ball
- Comebacks
- Blues
- Sneaker Males
- Goddess
- Feeders
- €oeGhost of a Chanceâ€oeBig
- Kidnapper-Couple Who Forgot to Leave a Ransom Note Sentenced to 14 Years
- Teachers� Names
- We�ve Got Rhythm
- I Have Much Better Poems than This
- He Won�t Go to Sleep Without Me,
- Flashlight