A place made of starlight : poems / by Peter Cooley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cooley, Peter, 1940-

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

88 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh : Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2003.

Summary:

A collection of poetry by Peter Cooley.

Contents:

Aubade with Sister 11

Killing Time 13

Questions of Paradise 14

Aubade with Son and Sun 16

Small Poem in Search of Depression 18

Every Line a Kind of Prayer 19

Meridian Ode on Melancholy, Ode to a Nightingale, Ode on a Grecian Urn 20

Small Poem for a Token Sparrow on My Sill 21

Lament 22

A Place Made of Starlight 27

Love Song 29

Phoning My Sister at the Nursing Home 30

My Sister Throws Up Her Breakfast 31

For My Sister on Guy Fawkes Day 32

My Sister and the Fury of Aerial Bombardment 33

Christmas Shopping for My Sister 36

My Sister Closes the Closet Door 37

Reincarnation as My Sister 39

Sunday Afternoons with My Sister 40

For My Sister on Mother's Day 41

Christmas Eve: My Sister Ponders the Millennium 43

My Sister Reincarnated as the Brother I Never Had 44

Aubade with Dachshund 47

Nocturne with Witch, Oven and Two Little Figures 49

Nocturne of Dark Purpose 51

Nocturne with Uninvited Guest 52

Corpus Delicti 54

Sung as a Dog Barks in the Night Distance 55

Small Poem My Son is Soon to Enter, to Tear Down 56

Table of the Future 57

Reincarnation as Dachshund 59

Final Season 63

My Crow, Your Crow 65

Canonical Hours 66

Another of the Emily Dickinson Poems I Continue Writing 68

Crying Through the Night Sky in Detroit 70

Brothers' Keepers 71

Fleeing From Me 73

Enacting a Moment All is Revealed 74

Reincarnation as Studebaker 75

From Our Childhood 79

Containing a Radiance 80

Decrescendo 81

The Rat Considers My Sister 82

Spider Monkeys 84

Meridian with Nocturne Subtext 85

Autumn Reconsidered 86

Composed upon the Huey P. Long Bridge, new Orleans 87

World Without Finishing 88.

ISBN:

0887483836

OCLC:

51882836