Liquid Paper: New and Selected Poems.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Meinke, Peter

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:

London : University of Pittsburgh Press, 1991.

Summary:

Peter Meinke was a master of traditional poetic forms long before the current interest in "the new formalism." His work is, in turn, witty, comic, sane, deeply moving, and always readable. Liquid Paper collects the best of his previously published poems from the late 1960s on with a generous selection of new work.

Contents:

Liquid paper

Father

The dead tree

Soldiers with green leggings

Growing deaf

The perch

Fixed stars

Easter in Neuch?atel

Indigo buntings

The anniversary deer

The shell

Minuet in G

Talk of the paintings

Arms and the man

Progress

Exodus with children

Myth

Love poem 1990

Caf?e du Pont

H?otel de la Truite

H?otel Lion d'Or

Carabet Voltaire

Caf?e Vue des Alpes

The poet to his tongue

The magic kingdom

Chicken unlimited

"This is a poem to my son Peter"

"You stand in isolation"

Third child: June 11, 1962

The monkey's paw

Ode to good men fallen before hero come

Because

The heart's location

Everything we do

Surfaces

Elegy for a diver

Byron vs. DiMaggio

Teaching poetry at a country school in Florida

Plovers

Dear Reader

Supermarket

Robert Frost in Warsaw

Azaleas

Ping-pong

World within world

The death of the pilot whales.

(Cont. 2) from "Lines from Key West" (I. Hero worship at Key West on the 4th of July ; II. Writing the great American poem in Key West ; III. Playing shuffleboard, drunk, in Key West, Fla. ; VIII. Wishing he had a theory in Key West)

The poet, trying to surprise God

In gentler times

Sonnet on the death of the man who invented plastic roses

Mendel's laws

Myrtle the turtle

Helen

To a daughter with artistic talent

Advice to my son

Flatbush

The house

Uncle Jim

Stille Nacht, heilege nacht

Uncle Joe

Aunt Mary

Aunt Gertrud

The cloud, Florida, 1985

Night watch on the Chesapeake

A church cemetery in St. Mary's

Rage

The slow child

Blue morning glories

Atomic pantoum

Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand Von Helmholtz

Running with the hyenas

The ABC of aerobics

The gift of the magi

Vision

Fourth of July

Fifty on fifty.

Notes:

Preliminaries omitted.

ISBN:

9780822979845

0822979845

OCLC:

319690946