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The contracted world : new & more selected poems / Peter Meinke.
Van Pelt Library PS3563.E348 C66 2006
Available
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Meinke, Peter.
- Series:
- Pitt poetry series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--20th century.
- American poetry.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 116 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2006]
- Summary:
- Passionate and compassionate, these poems are both deeply imagined and accessible to the general reader, focusing on personal and political life in American society.
- Contents:
- Fish Tale xi
- I Left-Winged Sonnets
- Brief Meditations on a Woodcut by Leonard Baskin 3
- The Graybeards 5
- Marine Forecast 6
- The Purity of Absolute Perfection 7
- The Death of Friends 8
- Turkish Coffee 9
- Elderly, She Paints Another Nude 10
- The Director 11
- 91st Birthday 12
- Mystery 13
- Caterpillar Plague, 2000 14
- The Skiers 15
- Treasure Island 16
- Maples and Orange Trees, 2003 17
- Rocking Horse Winner 18
- Butterfly Cage 19
- The Triumph of Desert Storm 20
- II The Chemical Chain
- The Contracted World 23
- P-town, '04 25
- What Wild-Eyed Murderer 26
- The Deserted Village, 2002 27
- Inheritance 29
- The Spindled World 30
- The True UFO Story 31
- The Simplest Animals 33
- The Chemical Chain 34
- The Little Factory, 1863 35
- M. Hoffstetler's Last Class 36
- Blackberry Jam 37
- American Youth 38
- Lilacs 39
- On Teaching Our Son to Tell Time 40
- The Wedding: February 26, 2000 42
- The Timaya Tree 43
- Epithalamion for Two Scientists 44
- The Bookshelf 45
- Song from the Wrong Bay 46
- III from The Night Train & the Golden Bird
- The Night Train 53
- The Patient 54
- Morocco 55
- The Great Wall 56
- Gramma 57
- Bones in an African Cave 58
- Neuchatel Swans 59
- Cheerios 60
- Vegetables 61
- Poem to Old Friends Who Have Never Met 62
- Sunday at the Apple Market 63
- The Anchor 64
- Angels Drink 65
- J Randall Randle 66
- The Golden Bird 67
- IV from The Rat Poems 69
- V from Trying to Surprise God
- Trout 77
- Letter from Warsaw, 1979 81
- Happy Hour 84
- A Necessary Bucket 85
- Preacher, Said the General 87
- The Hunters: Southeast Africa 89
- Greta Garbo Poem #41 91
- To an Athlete Turned Poet 92
- Threnody 93
- Miss Arbuckle 94
- Recipe 95
- The Artist 96
- VI from Night Watch on the Chesapeake
- On the Bus in D.C., 1980 99
- The Pin 101
- Lordship Lane Station 102
- Weeds 103
- The Sheep 104
- A Dream of Third Base 105
- Sonnets for a Diabetic 107
- Fraxinus Nigra 109
- Birchbark 110
- The Last Mountain Lion on Maple Crest Mountain 111
- Lines for the Reviewer 112
- Caitlin Rampant on a Field in Tuscany 113
- One Hundred Robins 114
- The Shells of Bermuda 115.
- ISBN:
- 0822959186
- OCLC:
- 63515903
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