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Long for this world : new and selected poems / Ronald Wallace.
Van Pelt Library PS3573.A4314 L66 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wallace, Ronald
- Series:
- Pitt poetry series
- Language:
- English
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- x, 118 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2003]
- Summary:
- Long for This World features the best of Ronald Wallace's work from his previous collections of poetry -- Plums, Stones, Kisses & Hooks (1981), Tunes for Bears to Dance To (1983), People and Dog in the Sun (1987), The Makings of Happiness (1991), Time's Fancy (1994), and The Uses of Adversity (1998) -- along with a generous selection of twenty-six new poems. If Wallace's recent poems sometimes seem darker and deeper, more meditative and complex, less sanguine about the tragedies of daily life, they never sacrifice the comic sense, the synthesis of technical skill and strong emotion, and the sensory immediacy that have become his hallmarks.
- Contents:
- @from Plums, Stones, Kisses & Hooks (1981)
- Installing the Bees 3
- Oranges 4
- One Hook 5
- After Being Paralyzed from the Neck Down for Twenty Years, Mr. Wallace Gets a Chin-Operated Motorized Wheelchair 6
- Prayer for Flowers 7
- Trout 8
- @from Tunes for Bears to Dance To (1983)
- Grandmother Grace 11
- The Belly Dancer in the Nursing Home 13
- The Assistant Professor's Nightmare 14
- A Hot Property 15
- "You Can't Write a Poem about McDonald's" 16
- Picture of Molly, Age 4 18
- 1001 Nights 19
- The Facts of Life 20
- @from People and Dog in the Sun (1987)
- The Nude Gardener 23
- This Night 25
- At Chet's Feed & Seed 26
- Poem Written Mostly by Fourth Graders 27
- Matheny 29
- Nightline: An Interview with the General 30
- People and Dog in the Sun 31
- @from The Making of Happiness (1991)
- Early Brass 35
- Bluegills 36
- Fresh Oysters & Beer 37
- Off the Record 39
- Fan Mail 40
- The Hell Mural: Panel I 42
- Building an Outhouse 44
- In the Amish Bakery 45
- The Fat of the Land 46
- @from Time's Fancy (1994)
- The Life Next at Hand 51
- Why I Am Not a Nudist 52
- A Valentine 53
- The Story 54
- The Swing 56
- Hardware 57
- Pantoum: The Sturdy of Worry 58
- Why God Permits Evil 59
- Ballade of the Humpback Whales 60
- Teachers: A Primer 61
- In the Cards 66
- Grandfather, His Book 67
- @from The Uses of Adversity (1998)
- The Friday Night Fights 71
- Fielding 72
- Tonight's Lecture: The Effects of Head Wounds on Foot Soldiers, A Case Study 73
- Panties 74
- The Bad Sonnet 75
- L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E 76
- Les poetes celebres 77
- The McPoem 78
- Waxworms 79
- Skin 80
- An Essay on Love 81
- Man Sleeping 82
- Long for This World: New Poems
- Local Hero 85
- The Old West 87
- Redundancies 88
- Literature in the 21st Century 89
- Gas 90
- How Laughter 92
- General Fuckup 94
- Failed Poems 95
- Alas, Thomas Midgley 96
- Bird Brain 97
- The Truth 98
- The Physical 99
- No Deal 100
- Claustrophobia 101
- The Face of God 102
- Shoes 104
- Photo from Liberia 105
- Sayonara 107
- The Invasion of the Body Snatchers 108
- Hey Buddy, Need a Lift? 109
- On Prozac 110
- SmackDown! 111
- In the Virgin Islands 112
- Lucky 113
- Pleasure 114
- Blessings 115.
- ISBN:
- 0822958147
- OCLC:
- 51481779
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