| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
vii, 130 pages ; 22 cm |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Contents |
I. The significance of the frontier. Born and raised there -- The crack in the map -- Ancestor -- Wild Mary Sudik -- The way to school, 1943 -- Drought, baptisms, progress -- Failure to learn a simple thing -- Changes -- The significance of the frontier -- Uncle Sam -- Summer bottles -- The omission of bestiality -- II. Sonnets and other hermit crab poems. Departure -- Connections among the lost -- Learning from flaws -- An image encompasses Saint Ursula -- Pecans -- A series -- A tentative sketch of everything -- Millennial snow -- Celebrating Bloomsday -- Auschwitz January, 2002 -- Refelctions on Caillebotte -- 150 days after September 2001 -- The pirate's ballade -- Granddaughter -- War lessons after a blizzard -- Cinquains for Studs Terkel -- Captain Marvel -- A new birth -- Resurrection city -- Questions of a studious worker -- III. Letters to friends. Reunion -- Weather front -- Telluride: A century of Lumpen -- Fossils -- East of Black Mountain -- Special collections -- Paralle 49 -- Kubuki in Chicago -- Orangerie -- Sharp tools -- The watch on the Elbe -- One more report on Nashville -- Young man with a hat -- Baseball opera -- Biloxi Beach, 1969 -- The privacy of the eye -- The hungry Madison cabby, 1958 -- Belle Starr's daughter -- Chicago windows at Sukothai, Thailand -- Big blue stem poems -- Congress kills ergonomic rules -- Ode to joy -- Desire flourishing -- A gift of paper dolls -- Szymborska -- Tear down this building -- IV. The cicerone. The cicerone near Terre Haute -- The cicerone at Gettysburg -- The cicerone crosses the Trail of Tears -- The cicerone in Cuba -- The cicerone sees a trashed Columbus -- The cicerone in the Triangle -- The cicerone at Khajuraho -- The cicerone at Pere Lachaise -- The cicerone at Antietam -- The cicerone with a lady in Venice -- The cicerone at Epidaurus -- The cicerone above the pits --The cicerone in Cicero -- The cicerone in millennial defeat -- The cicerone at Barnes -- The cicerone in Golden. |
| Summary |
"From weighty world and national issues to daily tasks and conversations and from the wind swept southern plains of Oklahoma to the urban jungles of Chicago to world travels, these poems form a seamless whole that tell the history of the USA through a kaleidoscope of stories, told without blinders but also without despair."--Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz; description from back cover. |
| ISBN |
1891470574 |
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9781891470578 |
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