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The hope of the air : poems / by Barry Spacks.
Van Pelt Library PS3569.P33 H67 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Spacks, Barry
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- x, 109 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [2004]
- Summary:
- An extensive collection of recent work by a poet who ranges widely in themes and techniques, The Hope of the Air offers a cornucopia of heart-felt insight, meditation, and celebration as it evokes a life on the contemporary scene observed with humor, perception, and brilliant invention. Spacks' latest work is concerned with the crystallization of emotion in words, with new angles of vantage that allow feelings to shimmer and deepen as the record of immediate experience lilts and takes unexpected turns on the Dickinsonian "slant" toward larger meanings.
- Contents:
- Metaphysics at the Beach 5
- Actors' Exercise 6
- The Assimilation 8
- Big Momma Bear 9
- Oh, Everything, Absolute Giving! 10
- Burst of Cumin 11
- Aunts 12
- Uncles 13
- The Death of Leonardo Vinci 14
- Dot 15
- Bachelard on Art 16
- A House in Montecito 18
- Buddha Songs 19
- Creatures 20
- A Father 23
- A Healing 25
- Some Performers 26
- Open House 29
- Living Lightly: A Blessing for Frankling Lee 30
- In Memory of Ed Sissman 31
- Dream Poem 32
- Final Page 33
- Rare Word in a Poem / Kenneth Rexroth 34
- Message to the Widower 35
- Gates 36
- Maple Tree 37
- In Chekhov 38
- Travelers' Advisory 39
- Looking at a Lizard 40
- California Poem 41
- Inheritors 42
- Homage to Duchamp 44
- Uncle Sunshine 45
- Living-Space 47
- The Hope of the Air 51
- Inventory 52
- Italian Restaurant 53
- The Good Burglar 54
- A Gist 55
- Living Alone 56
- Draped Elegance 58
- A Death in Trinity County 59
- The Practice 60
- Free Thursday 61
- Squirrel Cage 62
- Songs for the Downright Poet 63
- Campers in the Tide 65
- The Catch 66
- The Other 67
- Fourteen 68
- Whitewater Vision 69
- What Breathes Us 70
- The Sandwich 73
- Reading an Old Friend's Poems 74
- Reading Rilke 75
- Two Takes on Roses 76
- Half-Inch 77
- Floaters 78
- Saying No 79
- Birthday Verses 80
- Zen Pace 81
- We Tartars 82
- Intersection 83
- Patch of Moonlight 84
- Gesture of Air 91
- The Wordless Body 92
- The Plant and the Coal 93
- Marching to L.A. 94
- Some Trees 95
- Namelessness 97
- Mela 98
- Poet at Bedtime 99
- A Peacock 100
- Lama Sayings 101
- The Solution 103
- Position Paper 104
- Dumb Bird 106
- Courting the Moon 107
- Favored Guest 108.
- ISBN:
- 0870137328
- OCLC:
- 55597143
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