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Music from Apartment 8 : New and Selected Poems /
Poet and cardiologist John Stone is a man of many voices. A gifted verse maker, he exhibits in his writing the qualities of a compassionate physician, a musician, linguist, naturalist, and down-to-earth yet whimsical grandfather, son, husband, and brother. Selections from four previous books togethe...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
2004.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; New Poems; SERENITY GARDENS; Tuesday at the Assisted Care Home; Frances; Visitation; Noon, Thursday; Patriot at the Pianoforte; After Surgery; Processional: A Follow-Up; MOSAICS: REFLECTIONS FROM THE MIDDLE EAST; Baalbek; Jerash: Potsherds; Spiritual; Back through Time; Mount Sinai: Chasing the Sun; Caduceus; In Petra; Before Sleep; Jerusalem: Bedtime; Hydra: Greece; First Night Back in Atlanta; DISTANCES; Looking for the Pal Theater; South Sycamore: The Horse; Halloween Impromptu; Imagine with Me Now the Final Room; The Tuileries; The Smell of Matches (1972); Cadaver
- To a Fourteen-Year-Old Girl in Labor and DeliveryLove Poem for a Son; A Thirty-Four-Year-Old Substitutes as Goalie in Little League Soccer Practice; Talking to the Family; Autopsy in the Form of an Elegy; Lines on a Misread Word; The Bottle; Getting to Sleep in New Jersey; Being There; Song for Tossing a Son; da capo; Coming Home; In All This Rain (1980); He Makes a House Call; Love Poem at a Particular Breakfast for No Particular Woman; Losing a Voice in Summer; Love Poem Entirely of Cliches; A Cliche Poem for Your Leaving; Death; Double-Header; The Girl in the Hall
- Helping with the Math HomeworkLessons in the Subjunctive; One Evening; Bringing Her Home; Looking Down into a Ditch; How I'd Have It; Building the Steps; Whittling: The Last Class; The Truck; Answering the Phone; Fugue; In All This Rain; Renaming the Streets (1985); Early Sunday Morning; Rosemary; January: A Flight of Birds; Forecast; She in February; You Round the Bend; The Eclipse; Three for the Mona Lisa; Gaudeamus Igitur: A Valediction; The Pigeon Sonnets; Homing Pigeon I; Homing Pigeon II; Homing Pigeon III; The (Messenger) Pigeon
- Cooing in University College Quad The Lover-Pigeon Wakes Him Up at 5 A.M.A Word from the Teacher; November; December; The Bass; Where Water Begins (1998); Where Water Begins; Poem on an Accidental Xerox of Her Hand; October; Next Door; Holiday; The Good-bye, Good-Morning, Hello Poem; This Kind of Thing Doesn't Happen Often and When It Does You Should Pay Attention; He Attends Exercise Class-Once; After the Concert: A Confession; Oxford Poems; 5 A.M., Sleepless in Merton Street; Back to Oxford; The Forest Fire; from The Lu Poems; Doorway; Through the Window of the Cabin
- Letter in the Form of a PoemTalking with the Mockingbird; Elegy and Affirmation; Walking the Dog on the Night Before He Is to Be Fixed; Canticles of Time; Memory; Transplant; While Watching His Own Echocardiogram, He Welcomes In the New Year; Singing from the West Coast