Night bus to the afterlife / Peter Cooley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cooley, Peter, 1940-

Series:

Carnegie Mellon poetry

Carnegie Mellon poetry series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry.

Physical Description:

68 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh : Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2014.

Contents:

1 I See a City in Tears 11

The Third Heaven 12

Foragers 14

To Christ Our Lord 15

Voice of a Survivor 16

Adam After the Hurricanes 17

Green Threshold Orange 18

Autobiographica Literaria 19

More than Twice, More than I Can Count 20

Telephone Ringing in the Afterlife 21

Downtown 22

Sailing to Byzantium 24

2 Night Morning Sky 27

A Café on Magazine Street, New Orleans, September 31

3 Washing My Face 35

To My Immortal Soul 36

Local Weather 37

What Rises Keeps Us Here, and Rises Here 39

Poem Ending with Sententious Sentiment 41

I, You, Reader, Stoned Man, Silly Lady 42

To a Certain River 43

Poem Written on My Knees 44

4 The Long Accomplishment of Mortal Music 47

Nostalgia Piece 50

5 Byzantium 53

The Climbers 54

And Eating Out of My Hand 55

Anti-Aubade 56

From This Side 57

My Reading at the Old Folks Home 58

The Happiness Poem 60

Practice of Happiness 61

After Postmodernism 63

The Watcher and the Watched 64

Day After Tomorrow: Weather Watch 65

Night Bus to the Afterlife 66

Remembering that I'm in Pensacola, Florida, the Day Before Hurricane Katrina 67

The One Certain Thing 68.

ISBN:

0887485774

9780887485770

OCLC:

862349040