My father says grace : poems / by Donald Platt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Platt, Donald, 1957-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (107 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Donald Platt is an associate professor of English at Purdue University. His previous collections, Fresh Peaches, Fireworks, & Guns and Cloud Atlas, were published by Purdue University Press as winners of the Verna Emery Poetry Prize. He is a recipient of the "Discovery"/The Nation Prize, a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Center for Book Arts' Poetry Chapbook Prize, and two Pushcart Prizes. His poems have appeared in many magazines and journals, including The New Republic, Nation, Paris Review, Poetry, Kenyon Review, Georgia Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Field, Iow

Contents:

Contents; Sizzling Happy Family; Joy; My Father Says Grace; Brother Death, Sister Life; Ash Wednesday; Summer Arrhythmias; Turtle with the World on Its Back; Compass Rose; Treble and Treble and Back; Killing the Minotaur; Mirage; Victor Talking Machine Co.; Sundowning Exit-Seeker; Name & Address; Walt Whitman Wrestling Naked with the Young Trees; After; For Janis Joplin with Pink Feather Boa in the Clouds at the Edge of the Atlantic Ocean; Pretty Boy, Rifle Barrels, Carnations; Setting Sun; Snapshot; Andantino Cantabile with Double Rainbow; Cartwheels; Amazing Grace Beauty Salon

Two Poets MeetRed Door; Ground Transport

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-61075-271-6

OCLC:

608164848