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First edition. |
| Description |
122 pages ; 23 cm |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Contents |
I. Revised from a 1960s notebook. The unities -- This was real -- In the jail of Columbus -- Pastorale -- Disasters of another war -- North side mad song -- The clown's soliloquy -- The starling -- Lincoln Avenue 1968 -- II. Family, neighborhood, city. Obsoletus -- Dreams of my ancestors -- Toward home -- Celebrating Mozart, my father, Beckett -- Remembrances of driving -- The family Christmas card -- Jack -- Plantings -- Surrogate -- Magic garden -- Bear -- Golden approaches -- Down by the corner 1991 -- Newly ambulatory -- Equinox -- April -- Fall -- Gentrification and memory -- Bruce Goff's cullet -- Junkyard find -- III. Pain, fear, hope. Pain -- To a young friend -- Vision of an old wound -- Overwhelming nightmares -- Old wars, new war -- Against star wars -- History -- A "C" student reviews history -- First anniversary -- Perhaps from nothing -- Noir -- Columbine massacre on Hitler's birthday -- Choosing -- The esthetics of distance -- Amazing grace -- Sabbath -- IV. Fellow traveling -- Observe -- Earthlight/Starlight -- The cicerone covering the action -- The cicerone passes a cornfield -- Golden Gate fog -- The cicerone feeling the Rodins -- From a porch swing in Plain, Wisconsin -- Traveling with a lover -- Bridges -- Eight poems written while traveling in Greece and Turkey, September 2003 -- Bergen -- The cicerone in Saint Petersburg -- Eyewitness in Iraq -- Yachts in captivity -- Approaching Stratford-upon-Avon -- Cuernavaca 1972 -- Yatabaghdadu -- I saw this. |
| Subject |
Brisben, J. Quinn.
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American poetry -- 20th century.
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American poetry -- 21st century.
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Poets, American -- 20th century.
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Poets, American -- 21st century.
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United States -- Poetry.
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American poetry. (OCoLC)fst00807348
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Poets, American. (OCoLC)fst01067794
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Chronological Term |
1900-2099
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| Genre/Form |
Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01423828
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| ISBN |
9781891470790 (paperback) |
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1891470795 (paperback) |
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