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The contracted world : new & more selected poems / Peter Meinke.

Van Pelt Library PS3563.E348 C66 2006
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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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