Ramshackle ode / Keith Leonard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Leonard, Keith (Keith R.), author.

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--21st century.

American poetry.

Physical Description:

93 pages ; 21cm

Place of Publication:

Boston : Mariner Books, 2016.

Summary:

Containing joy and suffering side by side, Ramshackle Ode offers elegies and odes as necessary partners to bring out the greatest power in each. By turns celebratory, meditative, tender, and rebellious, these poems reimagine the divisions and intersections of life and death, the human and the natural world, the brutal and the beautiful. Time and again, they choose hope.

Contents:

Keel 1

The Doubling 3

Becoming the Boy 5

Strawberries for Dinner 7

Ode to the Grotesque 9

Memorial 10

Osiris Ode 15

The Third Commandment 18

Ode to the Odes 20

Conceiving the Child 22

The Could Be 23

Fiction 25

The Main Event 27

Monarch on Milkweed 28

Ode to Two Syllables 30

Ode to Dreaming the Dead 32

Opening Lecture at the Constellation Institute 36

Elegy 38

Just Like That 40

After Foreclosure 43

The Name of My Banker 46

The Lords and Serfs of Sand and Sea Sovereignty 51

Dead Man Float 53

Grocery Store Manager 54

Ode to Alternatives 56

Honeysuckle 59

A Lexicon to Fill a Rain Gauge 61

The Game as Good Medicine 63

A Brief History of Evolution 66

In this photo, James 69

Ode to the Unsayable 71

A Brief History of Patience 75

In the Headwinds of a Fable 77

Long Gone Ones 79

A Brief History of Silence 80

Near the End 81

Lord 83

Ode to the Ether 84

The Clam 86

Udder 88.

Notes:

"A Mariner original"

Other Format:

Online version: Leonard, Keith (Keith R.) author. Ramshackle ode

ISBN:

9780544649675

0544649672

OCLC:

913924163