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Fallen from a chariot / Kevin Prufer.
Van Pelt Library PS3566.R814 F3 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Prufer, Kevin.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 88 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Pittsburgh, Pa. : Carnegie Mellon University Press, [2005]
- Summary:
- A collection of poems by Kevin Prufer.
- Contents:
- Fallen from a Chariot 11
- A Car Has Fallen from a Bridge 12
- For the Dead: Car Crash 14
- An Angel 16
- An Ambulance 17
- Tired Old Men Asleep in Their Chairs 18
- "They Shall Be Left to Fall as They Are Inclined by Their Own Weight" 20
- Air Disaster Over Kansas 22
- Dissected Bird 23
- My Life with Caesar 27
- The Rise of Rome 28
- Poor Hannibal of Carthage 30
- The Historian's Prayer to the Deified Augustus 33
- The Death of Augustus 34
- Caligula, Clairvoyant 36
- Caligula on Death 38
- Claudius Adrift 41
- Beautiful Nero 43
- Roman Economics 46
- Lives of the Later Caesars 48
- The Fall of the Roman Empire 49
- Ode to Rome 53
- Goodbye to the City, We Have No Other 54
- Youth and the Lie That Goes with It 57
- Poem for My Mother at Her Age 58
- Narcissistic Elegy 59
- In the End the Doorbells Stop 60
- Old Woman 61
- The Dead in Their Boats 62
- Burial at Sea 64
- A Gull in the Water 65
- Questions for the Drowned at Sea 66
- Lily 67
- About the Dead 69
- The Empire in the Air 73
- The Empire Was Falling 74
- Prayer 75
- For the Dead: Unveiling 76
- Final Instructions 78
- The Gladiator 79
- Underground Mausoleum 80
- Lemure 83
- Who Are Our Barbarians? 85
- Apocalyptic Prayer 87
- I Was the Last Man on Earth 88.
- Notes:
- Poetry.
- ISBN:
- 0887484239
- 0887484190
- OCLC:
- 57666378
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