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The last person to hear your voice / Richard Shelton.
Van Pelt Library PS3569.H39367 L37 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shelton, Richard, 1933-2022.
- Series:
- Pitt poetry series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 109 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2007]
- Summary:
- While Shelton has been known primarily for his poems dealing with the landscape of the Southwest and the destruction of that landscape, the poems in this book are much more far-ranging, including many poems dealing with soocial issues (the issue of illegal immigration on our southern border, homelessness), historical events (the war in Iraq, the events of 9/11) and attitudes concerning politics and the environment. The poems are filled with sensory images, engaged in the real world, often ironic or simply off-the-wall, and their tone ranges from deeply sad, as in a requiem for Glen Canyon on the Colorado River, to the wildly funny, as in "Brief Communications from My widowed Mother."
- Contents:
- CHILDREN OF THE NEW CRUSADE. It is raining
- The little towns of West Texas
- Texas water tastes like turpentine
- In search of history
- At the round earth's imagined corners
- Politics last summer
- Summer's children
- Miranda of the sorrows
- 6 p.m.
- Destination
- Borderland
- Mother of God
- Downfall enters
- Colin Powell is in Cairo/Madeleine Albright to join think tank
- Wee hour
- Chicago
- Yes Miss Emily
- One morning
- The offering
- Veteran
- THE POPE AND THE CONTORTIONIST. South paradise
- Letter from Cuernavaca
- The cartography of loneliness
- Dichos
- Here in Mexico
- Here in Ecuador
- The wrong room
- King of roses
- Lugubrious
- The creep
- Getting on
- A Cinquain and the moon
- Therapy session
- The golden juice
- SUBURBAN LIFE AS WE KNOW IT. The examined life
- The glass slipper
- The hole
- If I were a dog
- The farm across the road
- Brief communications from my widowed mother
- Let me tell the one about
- Red and Ed and Clyde
- Canes
- Eros Turannos, Fred and Jo
- Catechism when the kingdom is in danger
- Runaway
- Those who name birds
- Green pastures
- The gates of paradise
- Lost languages
- Light
- Interview before departure
- Confetti
- Home place
- Glen Canyon on the Colorado (1991).
- ISBN:
- 9780822959571
- 0822959577
- OCLC:
- 85813619
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
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