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Gust : Poems /
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Evanston, Ill. :
TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press,
2011.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Firecrackers
- Part 1: Press in
- Dark corner
- Telephoning
- Soul-selling ritual
- Honey behind the sun
- Driftwood
- Mawu names her chief assistant
- Art in heaven
- Lord, make me a sheep
- Last song for Brother Langston
- Part 2: The wild yonder blues
- From a nationally televised press conference starring the poetic sheriff, Joseph Kilpatrick Conway, after a Van Gogh painting is stolen from a Little Rock exhibit and recovered in Monroe County
- All of this only fifty miles from the former home of L. Frank Baum, creator of The wonderful wizard of Oz
- The mailbox
- The palm tree soliloquies
- Marble to flesh, flesh to marble
- Vanilla home run
- The love song of Jephthah's daughter
- She dances with tornadoes
- Sex and Pentecost
- Boy in the buttonbush
- Little Lotty Knox
- Panjandrum
- Confession
- Mystery
- Part 3: Becoming Hot Tamale Charlie
- Carlo Silvestrini, child of Sunnyside
- Carlo on the hog slaughter
- Carlo flunks the seventh grade
- Carlo finds out where his new friend's name came from
- Carlo cuts a rose for Splendi Pretti
- Carlo goes to the new Catholic church near Sunnyside
- Carlo learns about betrayal when his girlfriend leaves him for "glittery eyes"
- Carlo speaks of hot tamales
- Carlo Silvestrini becomes Hot Tamale Charlie
- Hot Tamale Charlie works downtown Wilmot
- Hot Tamale Charlie sings of a player's heartbreak
- Hot Tamale Charlie speaks of rabbit ice
- Part 4: Ghosts
- Arkansas Blacks
- Jook house in burning season
- Goblin song
- A welder's New Year's Eve
- Tableland at zero
- Waking up in Baghdad
- Terror
- A soldier gets home
- A Swiss vintner in the land of muscadines
- Black and sticky
- The cold tile blues
- The magic of song
- Holy ghost man
- The mysterious bar-b-q grill of Turkey Scratch, Arkansas.