Then & now : poems / James Cummins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cummins, James.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature.

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (87 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

James Cummins

Place of Publication:

Athens, Ohio : Swallow Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

James Cummins's first book of poems, The Whole Truth, became known throughout much of the poetry world as the "Perry Mason sestinas." His second book, Portrait in a Spoon, was chosen by Richard Howard for the James Dickey Prize Contemporary Poetry Series. His latest and most accomplished work is collected in Then & Now, which reflects the same inventiveness and wit evident in his earlier books, with a deepening of tone and spirit. The result is a collection of poems filled with feeling and with Cummins's signature anguished humor. If the language of poetry is a way into a hall of mirrors

Contents:

Spoken Nervously by Torchlight to Angry Villagers; We'll Always Have Paris; Lullaby of Broadway; Spring Comes to Hamilton Avenue; From a Notebook; Poster Children; To Helen Vendler and Jorie Graham at Harvard; Tails; The World's Trade; Scene at the End of the World; Home Fires; Collegiality; Orpheus Picks Up His Dry Cleaning; Weary Orpheus; Orpheus Watches His Daughter Blow Out Candles; Orpheus Fixes Himself a Cup of Tea; Tattoo; Echo; Elegy; Donut Life; Solstice Moon; Practical Immortalities; Now and Then; Prayer for My Daughters; After These Messages; Doing Lunch

Bay Bus Terminal, San Francisco, 1974Epithalamium for a Teacher; Old Man; Nurses; The Player; Against Wordplay; Doherty Christmas Show; Poetry Reading; Edmund Wilson and His Wife, Elena, Have Dinner with Edna St.Vincent Millay and Her Husband, Eugen Boissevain, August 6, 1948; Parasite; Dream with Fred Astaire; Song; Needs; For Margaret; The Clockmaker; Notes

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9780804040181

0804040184

OCLC:

884016629