| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (210 pages) |
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text rdacontent |
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computer rdamedia |
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online resource rdacarrier |
| Contents |
A popular play -- A myth -- A popular play -- A recitation -- Again for the first time -- Almost the last resort -- Ave Mary -- Before friday conflicts -- Bovine -- Bring back the clowns -- Class work in the office -- Cormorants -- Couchant Bryant -- Creation theory -- Destination -- Do I know you? -- Elegy for a former teacher -- Equality -- Genesis -- Good days -- Hard times -- Second tour -- How are you so glad to see you -- Requiescat in pace -- Incalculable -- Keeping up -- Kissing her -- Lines composed at thirty thousand feet -- Love song -- The Miss Mellowtones -- Motorcycle delights -- October song -- On a pedestal -- Posturing -- Quiz -- Redact: hail and farewell -- Repose -- Robert E Lee -- Rural track meet -- Sliding down -- Stunning -- The border -- The difference between good and bad -- The mayor -- The nerve of some people -- The overture -- The ring of Kappa Alpha Order -- To a dead fat comedian -- Grace -- Unplanned obsolescing -- Variations on a theme by Frank O'Hara -- Vineyards -- When pressed -- Whispers -- Why we divorce -- Windswept -- Will -- A Lot you'd care -- After Miriam -- All at sea -- Allure -- An annual solution -- An empty stadium -- Black as the pit -- Burning -- Clarity -- Connie -- Cynthia's reflection -- Dry -- Empty nest -- Entranced -- Family get together -- Family ties -- Future perfect -- Generations -- Glaring -- Good news -- Impressionable -- Incorporeal -- Longevity -- Maelstrom after surgery -- Me morning -- Mentsh -- Mother swinging by the house -- Neolithic -- No hunting -- Not so much -- Of course -- On Walden tank -- One wife -- Only thoughts return to the same true places -- Oration -- Outlaw stories -- Pap -- Playing the game -- Prospectors -- Childish -- Quintessence -- Quotidian -- Reasons to live in Cisco -- Reflections -- Revisited -- Screen saver -- Seeking shade -- Sirens -- Sudden light -- The Gulliver family curse -- The making of one more lawyer -- The perfect mate -- The price of perfection -- Traces -- What did it mean? -- What I think I see -- When I hold you, you fit -- Will -- With honors -- You can't depend on me -- Family vacation in the mountains -- At the O Club in Okinawa -- Bobby Davis' fate -- Christmas in Seattle on the eve of war -- Cosmic -- Discreet -- Family vacation in the mountains -- Friendly fire -- Honor -- I told him -- In a drug store in LA -- That look -- Toys -- The great Doak Walker -- A fiction -- Can these flowers live? -- Cisco is too far for a walking town -- The great Doak Walker -- Football in Texas -- Forecast -- I expect -- To make God -- Journeys -- Just cruising -- Nothing comes easy -- Only twice -- The blessing -- Three shades of green -- Saddle up -- A farewell party -- After scribbling -- All over again -- April roses -- Draggin calves -- Celebration for scribbling seems silly -- Evidence -- First light -- Free of the flesh -- Looking deep -- Grandsons of the pioneers -- On morning rituals -- On calf roping -- On roping, lusting, and blood pressure -- The middle -- Mornings -- Why Johnny never goes to ToAnticipation -- Ageless -- Beck's dead, damn 2000 -- C'est ne past -- Closing time -- December -- Father's perfect funeral -- From the East to high noon -- Just like that -- My time -- Nagging -- Older now -- Proleptic -- Remainder -- Tender mercy -- The Last Supper -- Too much death -- What isle of bliss -- When I die -- When it's time -- Where to see the dead -- Big words, pastries. |
| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
| Subject |
Ranch life -- Texas, West -- Poetry.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Rattan, Cleatus. Popular play : new and selected poems. Huntsville, Texas : Texas Review Press, [2015] 9781680030266 (TXA)4825862 |
| ISBN |
9781680030266 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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9781680030273 (e-book) |
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