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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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Webb, Charles Harper (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2009]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
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 Elseâ€?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
  • Teachersâ€? Names
  • Weâ€?ve Got Rhythm
  • I Have Much Better Poems than This
  • He Wonâ€?t Go to Sleep Without Me,
  • Flashlight