The Night Train and the Golden Bird.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Meinke, Peter

Series:

Pitt poetry series ; 127.

Pitt Poetry Series ; 127

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--20th century--History and criticism.

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 1977.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Although The Night Train and the Golden Bird is Peter Meinke's first poetry collection, it is a seasoned performance-the result of careful deliberation and mature judgment-yet impetuous and exciting. It's full of wit and humor tempered with the sadness of approaching middle-age, anguish over political and social injustice, and of the very failings of everyday people and their lives.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

I. The Night Train

The Night Train

The Patient

The Poet to His Tongue

Old Man River

Momia

Morocco

Walls

Charleston

Dwarves

The Magic Kingdom

Chicken Unlimited

Gramma

this is a poem to my son Peter

you stand in isolation

Third Child: June 11, 1962

At the Ojubo Shrine, Nigeria

Bones in an African Cave

Origins

The Monkey's Paw

Ode to Good Men Fallen Before Hero Come

Absence

Cinnabar

Lines from Neuchâtel

Neuchâtel Swans

Because

II. The Golden Bird

The Heart's Location

Everything We Do

Cheerios

Vegetables

Surfaces

Happy at 40

Poem to Old Friends Who Have Never Met

Blue Girl

When I with You

Sunday at the Apple Market

Erotic Poem

Distances

Father kept an anchor

Cracking

Angels Drink

Lift a Glass to the Memory

Buffalo Skull

Elegy for a Diver

Byron vs. DiMaggio

Teaching Poetry at a Country School in Florida

J Randall Randle

Plovers

Dear Reader

The Golden Bird.

Notes:

Preliminaries and editorial matter omitted.

ISBN:

9780822978923

082297892X

OCLC:

1076650137