Hummingbird sleep : poems, 2009-2011 / Coleman Barks.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barks, Coleman.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hummingbirds--Poetry.

Hummingbirds.

Poets, English--19th century--Poetry.

Poets, English.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (129 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The poems in Hummingbird Sleep move associatively between Coleman Barks's personal experience and his extensive reading, weaving together a wild and eclectic range of material. A discussion of Plotinus, Barks's appearance on PBS NewsHour, a note Keats once left on Wordsworth's mantelpiece, a splinter in the heel, and a quote from the Upanishads-all make their way into Barks's most recent poems, which achieve intimacy and expansiveness at the same time.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Starting Out from Ted Hughes� Letters""; ""My Face and My Voice""; ""Lightning Bugs and the Pleiades""; ""My Segment on the NewsHour""; ""Accordion Sections""; ""Our Next Dying""; ""Word Choice""; ""Snow Day, the Word God, and the Threat of the Power Going Off""; ""Old Men Out Walking""; ""Inbetween Deaths""; ""The Splinter and the Riversticks""; ""The Scar on the Back of My Right Hand""; ""The Tuesday before Thanksgiving""; ""Tuck�s Coach""; ""Piecemeal""; ""Rise & Fall""; ""November Nights""; ""A Perfect New Moon""; ""Working Parts""; ""Boscage""

""Iron-Knocking""""Catkins""; ""Darling""; ""Celery Hearts""; ""Two Squirrel Stories""; ""There Ain�t Nothing Like It""; ""He said, Benjamin my son said, . . .""; ""Salinger in Arabic""; ""Peter O�Callahan�s Dream of Me Not Being Here""; ""Witness""; ""A Sky-Opening""; ""Middle Falls""; ""Occasional""; ""Seagull""; ""Hummingbird Sleep""; ""The VOICE inside WATER""; ""Got to Stop""; ""What I Am Sure Of""; ""Coffeehouse Notes""; ""Fox""; ""Robert and Noah""; ""Original Sins""; ""It Is Raining with the Sun Out""; ""Blessing-Bow""; ""Anytime""; ""Midafternoon Midsummer""

""We Laugh Together""""The Gift of a Comeback""; ""Heavy Rain in the Parking Lot""; ""Wittgenstein""; ""Grief in the Tub""; ""NOTES""; ""ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781283948180

1283948184

9780820345758

082034575X

OCLC:

859687117