The Total Light Process : New & Selected Poems /
Nationally acclaimed poet, photographer, filmmaker, and novelist James Baker Hall has long been regarded as one of Kentucky's most profound artists. Hall's growing body of work is an essential part of Kentucky's literary tradition, and yet his poetry in particular transcends the borde...
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Lexington :
The University Press of Kentucky,
2004.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Acknowlegments; Dedication; Contents; From Getting It On Up to the Brag (1975) and Fast Signing Mute (1992); The Poet Finds an Ephemeral Home in a Truck Stop on the New Jersey Turnpike, ca. 1970; Captain Kentucky; Gurney Norman, Kentucky Coal Field Orphan, Is Gurney StrongerThan History, or What?; The Mad Farmer Stands Up in Kentucky for What He Thinks Is Right; Saturday Night, College Town, South, Young Fellow, Not Much Style, Waits for Score, in Earmuffs.
- The Modern Chinese History Professor Plays Tuesday and Thursday after Dinner with His Favorite StudentThe American Love Song of the Mean Mary Jean Machine; The Family of Man Resides in the House of Philosophy; Rough Ride; Stuffing It; New Morning; Moment; Item One in a General Theory of Things; Grace Abounding to the Least of Sinners; The Master at His Early Morning; From Her Name (1981); Where We Wait; Hands; At the Grave; Her Hand; Something Between Them; At Work; In the Exit Lane; This Is a Love Poem to You; From Where I Am Now; The Cloudless Sky Takes Charge; During the Night.
- From Stopping on the Edge to Wave (1988)Sitting Between Two Mirrors; To Get There; Reading Palms; Organdy Curtains, Window, South Bank of the Ohio; That First Kite; Throwing Rocks into the River; The Maps; Freeing the Sparks; The First Winter Light; Identifying the Body; The Wedding Rings; The Window; Local Weight; Pulse; Dividing Ridge; Welcoming the Season's First Insects; Kneeling at Easter to the Season's First Bloodroot; On the Day of Balanchine's Death; Modigliani's Last Portrait of Jeanne Hebuterne; Monet; Ars Poetica; First Snow; Our Fall Was into Forgetfulness; Old Places.
- Sleeping on the Bank of a RiverA Stillness; The Rider; Traveling by Moonlight ; Adam's Love Song; The Relinquishments; Traveling; The Child; Stopping on the Edge to Wave; From The Mother on the Other Side of the World (1999); The Buffalo; Moonlight; With Deer; Hawkbells; Washing My Cup in the Last Light; Yet to Be Named; Kneeling; Ars Poetica; This Kiss; Names; A Second Place over the Mountain; Getting Naked; Love; Her Fingertips; Desire; The Fox; Absence; Home from the Hospital; Prayer for the New Year; Brother Prayer; The Owl; Little Man; Young Man Comes of Age in America; Our Mother's Hand.
- It Felt So Good but Many Times I CrFinal; Emerging Shadows at Sunset; For My Mother on My Birthday Many Years after Her Death; Requiem; God's Overture; The Mother on the Other Side of the World; From Praeder's Letters (2002); from secton ONE; from section TWO; from section THREE; from section FOUR; New Poems; At the Urinal; A Poem; Some of This Smoke Needs Moving; Please; For Mary Ann; A While Back; The Lady's Name; A I'Ombre des Jeunes Filles en Fleurs; Fresh Snow at Dusk; Time; Spring; Poet; Fire; Rothko; Mouse Elegy; Ridge Owl Black Dog; Name Age Country Next of Kin; The Wars.