1 option

The yellow shoe poets : selected poems, 1964-1999 / edited by George Garrett ; with a foreword by Fred Chappell.

PS615 .Y37 1999

Loading location information...

Available This item is available for access.

Format:: Book
Contributor:: Garrett, George, 1929-2008.
Language:: English
Subjects (All):: American poetry--20th century.; American poetry.
Physical Description:: xxiii, 232 pages ; 24 cm
Place of Publication:: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 1999.
Summary:: Since 1964, when Louisiana State University Press published its inaugural book of verse (Miller Williams's A Circle of Stone), its poetry list has grown exponentially -- 191 books by 95 poets -into a program that inspires understandable pride in those associated with it. Two collections have won the Pulitzer Prize -- The Flying Change (1986), by Henry Taylor, and Alive Together (1996), by Lisel Mueller. Another book by Mueller, The Need to Hold Still (1980), won the National Book Award, while several other LSU titles have been finalists for that distinction, most recently The Fields of Praise (1997), by Marilyn Nelson. Dozens more have been recognized for their excellence through a host of various honors.; To mark this thirty-five-year-old tradition as the century and millennium turn, and as a sampling of its richness, The Yellow Shoe Poets, a retrospective anthology, was compiled under the editorship of George Garrett, a longtime colleague of the Press and the author of eight poetry volumes. (Say "the LSU poets" real fast with a southern drawl and you get the ridiculously wonderful moniker that poet Elizabeth Seydel Morgan's young friend innocently mistook for this noble band. It's an image Brendan Galvin has appropriated to a perfect fit on behalf of his fellow "yellow shoes" across the years.); All 175 poems are taken from LSU Press books and were selected by the poets themselves, if living. Arranged alphabetically by author, they consist of at least one poem from every poet published by the Press. Goethe's admonition that "one ought every day at least, to read a good poem" can find no better starting point than in The Yellow Shoe Poets.
Contents:: Betty Adcock; Digression on the Nuclear Age 1; At the Age When You Get Bad News 2; The Kinds of Sleep 3; To Sylvia, Grown Daughter 5; / Dick Allen; Cities & Empires 6; The People Through the Train Window 6; / Claudia Emerson Andrews; Auction 8; / James Applewhite; The Failure of Southern Representation 9; Foreseeing the Journey 10; A Wilson County Farmer 11; Barbecue Service 12; / Jimmy Santiago Baca; The County Jail 14; / Gerald Barrax; Sainthood 16; The Guilt 16; / Ben Belitt; Xerox 18; The Orange Tree 19; / Catharine Savage Brosman; The Bookseller 21; Asparagus 22; / Paula Closson Buck; The Errand 24; / Kathryn Stripling Byer; Weep-Willow 25; Mountain Time 26; / Fred Chappell; Humility 28; Forever Mountain 28; Narcissus and Echo 29; The Story 30; / Kelly Cherry; Sharks 31; Phylogenesis 31; Work 33; The Revelation at Hand 34; / James Harmon Clinton; My Romantic Legerdemain 35; / Joshua Clover; The Map Room 36; / Rosanne Coggeshall; To John Berryman 37; / Nicole Cooley; Romance 38; / John William Corrington; On my 18th birthday 40; / Stephen Cushman; Blue Pajamas 42; / Kate Daniels; Funk 43; / Greg Delanty; The Master Printer 44; / Alison Hawthorne Deming; Science 45; No. 18 (from The Monarchs: A Poem Sequence) 46; / R. H. W. Dillard; She 48; Fog at the Spa 49; / Wayne Dodd; Looking, Late at Night 51; / Roland Flint; Easy 52; / Wallace Fowlie; Marcel in Venice 53; / Brendan Galvin; For a Daughter Gone Away 54; Pococurante 55; The Gandy Dancers 56; Toad 57; / George Garrett; Main Currents of American Political Thought 58; Snapshot: Italian Lesson 59; / Jane Gentry; The Drum Majorette Marries at Calvary Baptist 60; / Reginald Gibbons; Sparrow 61; The Affect of Elms 63; / Margaret Gibson; Earth Elegy 64; Glass Elegy 66; At the Ravine 67; In the Market 69; / James B. Hall; A Clutch of Dreams 71; / Cathryn Hankla; Swimming Naked 72; The Tautology of Goodbye 72; / O. B. Hardison, Jr.; King of the World 74; / William Harmon; When It Comes 76; / William Hathaway; The Iceball 77; Dear Wordsworth 78; / Robert Hazel; Black Leather 80; On Miles' Tribute to Duke 80; / Robert Hershon; The Public Hug 82; We Never Ask Them Questions 82; / William Heyen; The Mower 84; / Conrad Hilberry; The Expatriates 85; / Daniel Hoffman; An armada of thirty whales 87; The Twentieth Century 88; / David Huddle; Ooly Pop a Cow 89; Inside the Hummingbird Aviary 90; / T. R. Hummer; Scrutiny 92; My Funny Valentine in Spanish 92; / Pinkie Gordon Lane; Lyric: I Am Looking at Music 94; / Richmond Lattimore; Forlorn Dream Song 95; / Jan Heller Levi; Tuscarora 3 96; / Susan Ludvigson; On Learning That Certain Peat Bogs Contain Perfectly Preserved Bodies 98; Point of Disappearance 99; Paris Aubade 100; Lasting 101; / Martha McFerren; Tell Me 103; / David Middleton; The Family Tree 105; Blue Herons 106; / William Mills; The Meaning of Coyotes 107; Watch for the Fox 108; / Judith Moffett; Cecropia Terzine 109; / Elizabeth Seydel Morgan; The Adamsons' Peacocks 111; Family Life 112; / Robert Morgan; Double Springs 113; / Lisel Mueller; Palindrome 115; Merce Cunningham and the Birds 116; Missing the Dead 117; Losing My Sight 118; / Marilyn Nelson; Bali Hai Calls Mama 119; Chosen 120; Like Father, Like Son 121; How I Discovered Poetry 121; / Bink Noll; How It Feels on a Good Saturday Morning 123; / Joyce Carol Oates; Abandoned Airfield, 1977 124; The Suicide 125; Visionary Adventures of a Wild Dog Pack 126; Family 127; / Carole Simmons Oles; Day Ten After Heart Surgery, Signing a Check 129; / Brenda Marie Osbey; For Charles H. Rowell, On the Death of His Father 131; Faubourg 133; / Sue Owen; Crickets 135; / Anthony Petrosky; Listening to My Son's Heart 136; Goodbye on the Wind 137; / Stanley Plumly; Walking Out 139; Now That My Father Lies Down Beside Me 139; / Deborah Pope; Leaving 141; Passage 142; / Bin Ramke; Turning Forty in Denver 144; / Julia Randall; A Valediction 145; For the Keeper of MSS 146; / Barbara Ras; You Can't Have It All 147; / Jan Richman; Hells 149; / Paulette Roeske; The Body Can Ascend No Higher 150; / Gibbons Ruark; Words for Unaccompanied Voice at Dunmore Head 151; Waiting for You with the Swallows 152; / R. M. Ryan; After the Worst Is Known 154; / Stephen Sandy; The Water Spider 156; Grounds 157; / Herbert Scott; The Woman Who Loves Old Men 159; / James Seay; The Puritan 160; Deep in Dordogne 162; / Edgar Simmons; Dylan Thomas in Indiana 164; / Sean Siobhan; Seven Pieces of Advice 166; / David R. Slavitt; Solstice 167; Sentence 168; Adam 169; Caution 169; / Dave Smith; Making a Statement 171; Boys in the Square at Bologna 171; Descending 172; Lunch 172; / R. T. Smith; Passage to Kilronin 173; / Radcliffe Squires; The Garden of Medusa 174; / Richard Stansberger; Don't Make Friends with the Dead 176; / Timothy Steele; For My Mother 177; / John Stone; He Makes a House Call 178; Death 179; January: A Flight of Birds 180; The Bass 181; / Dabney Stuart; Glance 183; Grief 183; My Best Room 184; Palm Reader 186; / Eleanor Ross Tayl/r; Last Ant 188; / Henry Taylor; Blackberries 190; Bernard and Sarah 191; The Muse Once More 191; Underpass 193; / Rudolphe von Abele; Poet Counterpoet 195; / Robert Penn Warren; The World Comes Galloping: A True Story 196; Trying to Tell You Something 197; Arizona Midnight 198; Last Night Train 199; / Robert Watson; The Glass Door 201; Please Write: Don't Phone 201; / Theodore Weiss; Through Our Hands 203; / James Whitehead; Delta Farmer in a Wet Summer 205; / Miller Williams; The Caterpillar 206; A Poem for Emily 207; People 208; An August Evening Outside of Nashville 208; / Susan Wood; Matinee 210; / Stephen Yenser; Ember Week, Reseda 212; / Al Young; Demerol 213; The James Cotton Band at Keystone 213.
ISBN:: 0807124508; 0807124516
OCLC:: 41176694

The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.

1 option

The yellow shoe poets : selected poems, 1964-1999 / edited by George Garrett ; with a foreword by Fred Chappell.

My Account

Guides