Use trouble : poems / by Michael S. Harper.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harper, Michael S., 1938-2016

Series:

Illinois poetry series.

The Illinois poetry series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry.

American literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (369 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

For decades, Michael S. Harper has written poetry that speaks with many voices. His work teems with poetry configured as awe, poetry as courtship, and poetry as elegy and homage. Infused with tales and riddles, sass and satire and surprise, Harper's poetry takes the form of psalms, jazz experiments, soft serenades, and radical provocations. In Use Trouble, his first major collection since Songlines in Michaeltree, Harper renews poetry as the art of taking nothing for granted. In three groups--"The Fret Cycle, " "Use Trouble, " and "I Do Believe in People"--he draws on his seemingly inexhaustible resources to paint, sing, sympathize, and sorrow. Here are his tributes to his father and family, his irrepressible playfulness, and his lifelong romance between poetry and music.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

I. The Fret Cycle

Fret (A Tune Near Composition in the Studio)

A Note from Cathy at Yaddo

The Lesson for Paul on Catherine Clarke's Birthday

Fret in the Woods

Table Notice

Fret Skips Town for a Gig in New London

Fret Deep in the Woods

Fret Leaves Yaddo

Ghost of Fret at High Table: Mansion

Fret's News from the Front: Yaddo After

Martini Glasses Galore

Fret Shows Up at the Metropolitan

The List: Yaddo

Fret Leaves Yaddo in Disguise

Fret Having Survived Modernity

Fret Discovers the Blues, Again

Ass

Fret in Studio with the Ancestors

Fret Find the Instrument of Archipelago

Mt. Pleasant Local Library

Fret Finds the Open Field

II. Use Trouble

A Photographic Guide to the City

Use Trouble

Portrait: (Jay Saunders Redding at Sayles Hall) 5/26/97

Esther

Triumphs

Homage to Jay Saunders Redding on His Natal Day: 10 13 04

Praisesong for BB

Goodbye to All That

Public Letter: Visible Ink

Dubonnet

Archives: The Public Library I

Archives: The Public Library II

Legend of Jeannie Turner

TCAT Serenade

Sherley Anne Williams: 1944-1999

Chloe: Black Pastoral Luminous

Handmade Book on the Theme of the Beloved

Pigeon

Artist on a Cellphone (Yaddo)

Vote (Providence)

Marilyn

Tattoo

Copenhagen

Notes on Our Resident Humanist: Mahler B. Ryder, 1937-1992

Ostseebad Ahrenshoop

Ribs

Charlotte and Nathan Exchange: 50th Anniversary

Charlotte to Nathan

Notes on the Hopi

Critical Mass

Hemingway's Iceberg

Saint Dolores (Phillips Exeter Academy)

Days Remaining"/Bloom's Day, Dublin

Freud: Lessons on Boundaries

George J. Makari Blues

Songbirds (Habitat)

Ponta de Areia" [Brazil]

Tagore (Nobel, 1913)

On Brodsky's Collected

Three Poems: October 17, 2004.

I. Archival Secrets of Mary Lincoln

II. At the Square

III. The Secret Lore of Will's Presidency

Zen: The Trainride Home to the Welcome Table

The Flight Home

Tatum

Baseball (Orb)

Josh Gibson (Master of National Past)

Blackjack

Look Backwards: Henry Aaron's Hammer

A Centenary Ode to EKE: The Duke of Ellington

Ray Charles Robinson Dead at 73

Womb of Space (Yaddo)

What I Know This Very Day

Along Came Betty

Repeat Button

Digesting Dexter Gordon at 80

Goodbye Pork Pie Hat

Photo: Letter (Joel Chandler Harris)

Ernesto Victor Antonucci

'Craft'Talk, Vermont Studio Center

Elder

On the Theme of Self-Knowledge and Education "In Society" Though Not Defined by Falsehoods

Joseph Santos Ileto

The Broke and the Unbroken

Jacuzzi Serenade

On Arrival

Christine Frey's Resurrection

Open Studio

Iowa (1961) Or "How to USE TROUBLE" [Writers Workshop]

Shirley of Little Falls [1961, Iowa City, IOWA]: A Profile in "Intaglio

Philip Roth

American Masters: PBS" (Ralph Ellison)

Neighbors

Leonard Brown, Musician/Teacher

Richard Davis's Trampolines

Year of the FirePig in Chinese New Year

Eulogy Framed as Requiem Mass on the American Frontier

Modulations on a Theme . . . for Josephus Long

Eva's Song at the End

Los Angeles Coliseum Olympic Swimming Pool, 1960

Frederick Armstrong Hetzel

Zambia

Massey's Ministry

The Tank and Its Narrators

Judge &amp

Jury: A Saga on Dramatics of the Persona Off Stage

The Revolutionary Garden

Royce Hall

Gwendolynian Staccato Dance

Muse

Spencer Trask's Den (Yaddo)

Spoon of WNN III: Lost Reflections on My iPod No Longer Shuffling

Newk" While He's Still Alive and Playing

Horacescope

Miles Davis Shirt: Monterey Jazz Festival

On Green Dolphin Street" [after Miles Ahead].

The Life of Jackie McLean

Blues for a Colored Singer: Milt Jackson

Interstate 80 Freeway Return

Last Song [in Memoriam: Michael Micciche III]

Libation for Elvin Jones [1927-2004]

Dexter Leaps In

The Book on Trane

A Coltrane Poem: 9 23 98

A Coltrane Poem: 9 23 98 (2)

Coltrane Notes on the Millennium 9 23 2000

Sermon on O'Meally

Larry Doby

Panhandler (New Haven)

Galveston: 9 8 1900

Notes on the Long Poem (Tuscaloosa, AL)

John Killens at Yaddo

Haircut on the Solstice

Ten Years of Freedom: South African Film Festival, N.Y.C.

Certainties

Hooded Cobra Eyes: Beguiled by Pitch of the True Reed

Bouillabaisse

Ars Poetica

Bellow Berryman James Arlington Wright

III. I Do Believe in People

Poem on Contents of Harper/Johnson Kin

Horoscope: 3 12 98

Horoscope: 10 3 98

Driving Up on Van Aken Blvd.

My Mother Said: For My Sister, Katherine

Rome, New York

My Aunt Ella Mae

Ice

Snapshot

Sacrament

Elizaville

Subcode

Five Gallon Water Bottle (Oster Is the Best): A Story, a Tale

Couch

Why I Don't Do Surveys

Sleeping under a Wool Blanket Here

Patrice among the Elders

Getting My Head Shaved by My Son at Odd Hours

Glass (Crystal)

Bermuda Triangle: for Patrice Cuchulain Harper

Papa's Day: Notes On Partition: WWH: Father's Day Greeting '99

Broadside

(Omaha) UTAH BEACH, FRANCE, 5 8 92

Josh Gibson's Bat

Portrait off Son at Rhinebeck Train Station

Paris

Mama: To Son

Katherine Louise Johnson Harper

Headset

Juneteenth

Indispensable Meditation on the Family Tree

The Latin American Poem

Airport

Altura

Maroons

When I Was a Boy

Pull-ups at PS 25

Hives

Iowa

My Mother's Bible I

My Mother's Bible II

Pigeons

Caretaking Supreme

The Patriarch, W. Warren Harper, Circa 1938.

Cathair on His Blackwatch Jacket

Manhattan Beach

Homage to Flight #103, Pan-American

Commencement Address: For Jonathan Paul Harper (1941-1977)

Attributes And Eccentricities of W. Warren Harper

Meditation on Catskill Creek

Talk Therapy on John Milton

Lovesong

1965 Watts Riot

Domestic Relations (Defendant saith)

The Red Dress: 12 24 65

Walking Tour (Lake Windermere) Studies in Romantic Poetry

Walking Tour (Lake Windermere): Its Aftermath

The Squire of Taunton

Jaxon's First Song: 5 21 2000

Natal Visit on the Theme of Shoes

Apologia to Charlotte Scott on Pantops Mountain

Forty: 6 28 06

Loyalty

Paul Urabe [1938-2003]

Yaddo, Mrs. Ames and Black Men

Index of Titles.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786613059994

9781283059992

1283059991

9780252091476

0252091477

OCLC:

785781215