The Cabinetmaker's Window : Poems / Steve Scafidi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scafidi, Steve, author.

Series:

Southern messenger poets

Southern Messenger Poets

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

72 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2014]

Contents:

1 Sometimes There Is a Shit Smell Everywhere 3

The West Virginia Copper-Wing 4

This Page 6

Song for the Holy Ghost 7

Two Cabinetmakers 8

Looking for the Maker's Name 9

At Wartime 10

Questions I Asked Death, Questions Death Asked Me 12

The Rocking Chair Bookcase 13

Triumph of the Jabberwock 14

Phone Call from the Pleistocene 15

If Faulkner Is Wrong and We Don't Endure or Prevail 16

2 Pig Fucker's Wife 19

Song for the Tribe 21

The Chisel 22

Thank-You Wishes for the Wilderness 23

Death of a Unicorn 25

The Cabinetmaker's Window 26

Like OMG, I Can Die Now ♥ Pammy 27

Ars Aureus 28

Lines for the Atrium of a High School 29

After Ammianus of the 2nd Century A.D. 30

Song for the Carry-On 31

Driving Around 32

3 The Little Girl from Outer Space 35

On the Back of an Envelope 37

The Denunciation of Ricky Skaggs from On High 38

Days We Can't Play Black Sabbath 40

Ode with a Dolphin at the End 41

On the Birth of a Friend's Child 42

Under the Collard Greens and the Poppies 43

To a Cloud over Troy 45

Dreaming Made the Hula Hoop 46

You Should, Said Socrates, Sing a Charm over Him Every Day Until You Have Charmed Away His Fears 48

Music for the Word Perhaps 49

The Hillbilly Break-Dance and the Talking Crow 50

4 Whiskey for Sorrow and a Song of Disgrace 55

The Laborer 56

What Sings in the Garden Shines in the Sun 58

The Way the Days Pass One after Another 59

Thank You Lord for the Dark Ablaze- 60

How the Things We Work On, Work On Us 61

On the Rebel Flag over my Neighbor's House 62

To the Cabinetmakers 63

Song for Sunday Morning 65

Poem Ending with a Line from Auden 66

The Taste of It 68

In the Parking Lot of the Barbershop 69.

Notes:

"LSU Press Paperback Original"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780807154496

0807154490

OCLC:

844789904