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Sallies : poems / R. H. W. Dillard.
Van Pelt Library PS3554.I4 S25 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dillard, R. H. W. (Richard H. W.), 1937-2023.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- viii, 72 pages 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University, 2001.
- Summary:
- Darting into the unknown as only the best poetry safely can, R. H. W. Dillard's Sallies bursts with bold violations of customs, flights of fancy, and insouciant leaps of tone and form. Unwaveringly skillful, these brave poems explore the complex texture of life and death, light and dark, unafraid to confront paradox and finding in their sudden swift grace moments of "poise and equipoise" -- the preciousness of now in the face of the infinite: "Somewhere eternity extends itself like Saturday / with so many things to do and voices in the air. / Somewhere a light will fill forever / like straw spun into gold."
- Contents:
- Sallies
- Solstice 3
- Great Summer Sun, Great Summer Sun 5
- Living Among Trees 6
- Amazon 7
- Without You 8
- Listening to the Edges 9
- Bumper Sticker, Fool's Wisdom, Life Is Too Short 11
- Out of the Loop 13
- Revelation 15
- The Dead Queen 17
- Ghosts in the Stacks 18
- Let's Pretend 19
- In Late July 21
- Equinox 23
- Des Allies
- The Warden's Daughter Unlocks the Locks 27
- On the Gift of Two Cosmic Cups 28
- Four "Lost" Poems of Sean Siobhan
- The Sun Bursts Through 29
- Hard to Think 30
- How to Know (When You're in Love) 31
- Back from the Sun 32
- Bran 33
- What's on Dirty Harry's Mind Today 35
- Healthy Body 36
- Memo to an Academic Colleague 37
- Three Essays
- Fred Chappell's Poetry: Paradox and Tension 38
- A Discussion of the Poems of David R. Slavitt 41
- Anthropophagi 45
- The Flying Changs 48
- Sallie's
- She 57
- Empty Nest 58
- Absence 60
- Red Shoes 61
- How You Saved My Life: A Letter 63
- Black Dog 65
- That Smile 68
- Saint John's Eve 69
- Faces 70.
- ISBN:
- 0807127159
- 0807127167
- OCLC:
- 45715056
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