Boston, Vermont : poems / by William Corbett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Corbett, William, 1942-

Language:

English

Physical Description:

96 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Zoland Books, 1999.

Summary:

William Corbett The first collection of new work by renowned poet William Corbett since his landmark "New & Selected Poems. "I have never been able to work every day at poetry but must serve the moment and be as much in that poem as I am capable of being....I write poems in Boston and Vermont for the same reason that I read them: poetry intensifies life."

Contents:

Mirror, Mirror 1

"25 August 1994" 2

Schuyler & Nora 4

Joe's Armani Sweater 10

MIT Poetry 12

"What I did on" 18

Storm 24

Home 25

Blues 26

For Jim Behrle's Meanie 28

Raw November Afternoon 29

Song 31

Driving Jazz: Take Two 32

Around Christmas 34

At last 35

"There's a man" 36

Last Night 37

Late Spring Letter to August 38

"Smoke from burning trash" 41

Old Students 43

A Romance 45

A Footnote to "A Romance" 46

Emma 47

"Early in the baseball season" 48

For Elise and Treuby 49

"Son of a bitch bastard" 50

For Beverly 51

J 52

Oldies 53

Poem 54

A Hurt Un-expressed 55

Oldies II 56

"When the flock high" 57

The Same Old Things 58

Late August Letter to Eddie B

60

Back 65

My Mother-in-Law's Last Words 66

I-95 68

Early April 69

Easter 70

Work 71

Ernie Hurst 72

Vermont Water 73

Dog Day 74

Postcard to Dunquin 75

"The pleasures of Elmo Hope" 76

Dream 80

My Hand 81

Landscape with Night Game 83

Rewritten Poem 84

Teacher 85

Adieu, Norman 86

Gunfight at the El Toro 88

To Walk 91

This Year's Flu 92

"It's always night, or we wouldn't need light." 96.

ISBN:

158195011X

OCLC:

41482288