Terrestrial music : poems / by John Bradley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bradley, John, 1950-

Language:

English

Physical Description:

73 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Willimantic, CT : Curbstone Press, 2006.

Summary:

The poetry in Terrestrial Music has been inspired by Pablo Neruda, Thomas McGrath, Muriel Rukeyser, and Martin Espada. In lyrics that explore issues that affect our daily lives, such as ecology, genocide, hunger, nuclear damage, and violence, John Bradley not only celebrates the beauty of earth and the redeeming power of nature, but also confronts social injustice and fully explores the impact of the industrial uses of radium with detailed historical anecdotes and documentation. These poems identify one common source of strength: The earth is part of our identity, our body, and our soul.

Contents:

Where I Live

Where I Live 3

Terrestrial Music 4

Involving the Use of the Word "America" 7

Reckoning 8

The Angels of Sodom 9

Two Tangos with the General 10

On the Death of Pol Pot 12

"Rifle Shots Kill Girl, 12, Racing Out of Her Bed" 13

Margot, Otto, Anne, and Edith Frank, Merwedeplein, Amsterdam, May 1941 15

Bosnian Love Poem 16

"Improper Disposal" 17

Cocoon 18

Insomnia of the News 19

Science as a Mechanism

To Dance with Uranium 23

Radithor: A Short History in Four Reels 24

Watch Alice Glow 26

Sailors Shielding Their Eyes During Atomic Bomb Test, Bikini, 1947 36

I Sing the Body Atomic 38

After Viewing: The Queen of Outer Space (1958) 40

Rapture of Fire: Amarillo, Texas, 1984 42

Escalation 44

Science as a Mechanism of Exclusion 45

Story with Blue and Green 53

Earth Angel

Earth Angel 57

The Institute of Nuclear Poetics 58

Animal Light 59

Jesus and the Corn Mothers 60

My Brother Calls from Cleveland (To Tell Me This Dream) 61

Letter to Dina 62

Terrestrial Music / 2 64

Mortal Colors 65

The Uses of Poetry 66

White Footprints 67

On the Way to Mecca 68

On Hearing a Recording of the Voice of Walt Whitman 70

After a Rain 71.

ISBN:

1931896283

OCLC:

69671961

Publisher Number:

9781931896283