Time's Fancy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wallace, Ronald.

Series:

Pitt poetry series.

Pitt poetry series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--20th century.

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 1994.

Summary:

Winner of the 1995 Banta Book Prize for a Wisconsin Author Ronald Wallace is best known for his wit and good humor, his synthesis of technical skill and strong emotion, his sensory immediacy, his accessibility, and charm. Now in Time's Fancy, his fifth collection, Wallace explores the tragic aspects of life more fully, fashioning a declarative poetry that is darker and deeper, more meditative and complex.

Contents:

""Contents""; ""1""; ""The Life Next at Hand""; ""Cricket""; ""The Failures of Pacifism""; ""Earthly Pleasures""; ""The Astronomy of Loss""; ""Pastoral""; ""Beethoven and the Birds: The Piano Trio in C Minor""; ""Quick Bright Things""; ""2""; ""February 14""; ""Sweet Corn""; ""Dragonflies""; ""The Physics of Marriage""; ""Tricks""; ""The Theory of Relativity""; ""Canzone: Siesta Key""; ""Ballade of the Orangery""; ""Hunger""; ""Why I Am Not a Nudist""; ""A Valentine""; ""3""; ""The Story""; ""The Swing""; ""The Sins of the Fathers""; ""1959""; ""Honky-tonk""; ""Strips""; ""Poison Ivy""

""Hardware""""Ballade of David Parsons""; ""The Resurrection and the Light""; ""Running""; ""The Inaccessible""; ""Saints""; ""Canzone: Egrets""; ""4""; ""Pantoum: The Sturdy of Worry""; ""The Furnace Men""; ""Man and Machine""; ""Why God Permits Evil""; ""Ballade of the Recycling Center""; ""Possum, 1942""; ""Exploration and Discovery""; ""Sentences: A Play in Five Acts""; ""Ballade of the Humpback Whales""; ""5""; ""Dream Lanes""; ""Teachers: A Primer""; ""In the Cards""; ""Grandfather, His Book""; ""Personal Effects""

Notes:

Preliminaries omitted.

ISBN:

9780822980889

0822980886

OCLC:

909142404