American Ghost Roses /

In his first book as the poet laureate of Illinois, Kevin Stein shoulders an array of poetic forms, blending pathos, humor, and social commentary. These poems--ranging from meditative narratives to improvisational lyrics--explore art's capacity to embody as well as express contemporary culture....

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stein, Kevin, 1954-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2005]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Poetry.
American poetry.
FICTION > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Poetry.
poetry.
Poesie americaine.
Poesie.
Poetry as Topic
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Table of Contents
  • One
  • Wishful Rhetoric
  • Two
  • To the Reader Awakened by a Noisy Furnace
  • An American Tale of Sex and Death
  • Reintroductions
  • Adolescent Hemlock
  • In the House of Being
  • The Cost
  • Revelation in Pinks and Red
  • Superstitious Manna
  • Kandinsky's Concerning the Spiritual in Art
  • Windfall
  • Upon Witnessing My Mother Impossibly Blossom above My Father's Deathbed
  • Three
  • Love Poem with Knife and Last Cut Zinnia
  • Sappho's Fragment 63
  • Instructor's Comments on the Poem Eden Sleeping, Circa 1975How He Answered the Glossy Magazine's Mate-Poaching Survey
  • Upon Blowing Our Chance to Meet the Poet Laureate, Who's Probably a Nice Guy
  • Etiquette and Epiphany in the Post-Workshop Men's Room
  • The Other One
  • To Bob Marley's Toe
  • Ghosts
  • To Bananas
  • Reliquary
  • Four
  • Thinking of Kandinsky while Shaving My Father
  • Theory & Practice
  • Valentine's Day Boxing at the Madison County Jail
  • Found in a Shoe Box Labeled Keep
  • In the Nuclear Age
  • Upon Freeing the Ruby-Throated Hummingbird Beak-Stuck in a Screen DoorTo Wheelbarrows
  • While Writing This Poem, My Horse Jumped the Pasture Fence
  • These Gifts
  • Won't You Stand Next to My Fire
  • Tract

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