Soon after rain : new poems / James Hoggard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hoggard, James, author.

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

83 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

San Antonio, Texas : Wings Press, 2015.

Summary:

"James Hoggardʼs new collection of poems is an elegant, highly energetic volume that takes its readers through a wealth of settings, times, and forms. As versatile a poet as there is, he time and again turns his attention to forms like pantoum and ghazals that heighten the readersʼ responses to the stories he tells in verse. In fact, one of the signal pieces in the volume shows Hoggard unearthing an old story about Odysseusʼ trying through a wealth of trickery to get out of going to the Trojan War. What the tale adds up to, however, is a deeply moving love story that seems genuinely contemporary. Running throughout this collection is, however, a powerful use of environmental collapse as both theme and metaphor"--Publisher.

Contents:

I.

Soon After Rain 2

Late Afternoon Rain 3

Touching Different Worlds 4

Bull Riding at the Atkeisons' Ranch 6

Leaving the Lincoln Memorial 7

Heat Break 9

This Alien Place Called Home 10

Summer Floods 11

Watching the Sky 13

Hotter'n Hell Hundred 14

Running at Night 15

The Wrong Way to Wheeler Peak 16

The Way the Weather Works 17

Fall's First Grippe 18

II.

Dark Drifting Clouds 20

Nineveh, on Fire Again 21

The Changing Clouds 23

A Clown Show in the Sky 24

A Dimness in the Air 25

Low Clouds, Dark 26

The Rhythms of Rain 27

Walking Where Nineveh Was 28

Beyond the Town 30

Chills 31

A Contradictory Brightness 32

The Spears of Zeus 33

III.

Sky Over Knossos 36

Odysseus Sowing Salt 38

Seasickness 42

Revenge 44

The Draw of the Other 46

A Curious Man 47

Our Friends Son 49

Cervantes 50

IV The Artemisia Sutte

A Finely Cold Will 52

Self-portrait as the Allegory of Painting 53

Susanna and the Elders 54

Corsica and the Satyr 56

The Sensual Miracle 58

V.

Bats in Havana 60

Moonwash 61

Seasonal Changes 62

Winter 63

When Four Tornadoes Joined 64

A Difficult June 65

Mountain Butterfly 66

Peripeteia 67

Summer's First Rain 68

A Long, Hard Wind 69

A Massive Stillness 71

In the Lobby 72

Dilemma 73

Summer Ordeal 74

Last Night's Derecho 75

Father-Son Talk 76

First Freeze 77

A Terror Fills the Air 78

The Old Model 79

Memories of Mosul 80.

ISBN:

1609404289

9781609404284

OCLC:

894816373

Publisher Number:

99963162885