Listening long and late / Peter Everwine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Everwine, Peter, author.

Series:

Pitt poetry series.

Pitt Poetry Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--19th century.

American poetry.

American poetry--History and criticism.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (89 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

University of Pittsburgh Press

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"What a rich array of music lies within Listening Long and Late. With refreshing authenticity, Everwine weds playfulness to practice, lyricism to narrative, pathos to the ordinary. Indeed, he has listened 'long and late' to the music of such venerable masters as Tu Fu, the hidden genius on the street, and the anonymous Aztec poets of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Everwine writes with the same 'deified heart' that divines the mystery of his quotidian subjects in a language that is at once plain and poetic. His own work seamlessly segues into his translations from the Hebrew and Nahuatl, as if all the poems belonged to the same poet, which they in fact do, as the glorious multitudes of Peter Everwine, one of the masters of our age."-Chard deNiord

Contents:

Song

The migration of the Turkey buzzards

A story can change your life

Another spring

Sorrow song

Of Zarathustra

Lines

Kiski valley: looking for old miners

Lament for the dead princes

Elegy for the poet Charles Moulton

Even friendship

Making the circle

The girl on the Bullard overpass

Night crawlers

Lessons

The beginning of country music

Orpheus laments

Accordions

Lament

Prankster song

One for the 5-string

The banjo dream

The shirt

Rich man

The moment

To a water snake

Homage to Tu Fu

Concerning the disappearance of the nightingale

Traces

Hear I am

the country highway

my five year old

in time

we ride a long time

they lost the grandfather

he felt confused

a cold overcast morning

the room was dark

the people in the old photographs

in 1937

California was another one

you see them

After the funeral

The rag rug

The formula

To Po Chü-I

He alone

Poem on my 79th birthday

The snake

The canyon

Where is that road

The train section of Milan

Rain

Aubade in Autumn.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed August 14, 2014).

ISBN:

9780822979104

0822979101

OCLC:

889314683