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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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Carbondale :
Southern Illinois University Press,
2004.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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.