Smith blue / Camille T. Dungy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dungy, Camille T., 1972-

Series:

Crab Orchard award series in poetry.

The Crab Orchard series in poetry

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (90 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In "Smith Blue," Camille T. Dungy offers a survival guide for the modern heart as she takes on twenty-first-century questions of love, loss, and nature. From a myriad of lenses, these poems examine the human capability for perseverance in the wake of heartbreak; the loss of beloved heroes and landscapes; and our determination in the face of everyday struggles. Dungy explores the dual nature of our presence on the planet, juxtaposing the devastation caused by human habitation with our own vulnerability to the capricious whims of our environment. In doing so, she reveals with fury and tenderness the countless ways in which we both create and are victims of catastrophe. This searing collection delves into the most intimate transformations wrought by our ever-shifting personal, cultural, and physical terrains, each fraught with both disillusionment and hope. In the end, Dungy demonstrates how we are all intertwined, regardless of race or species, living and loving as best we are able in the shadows of both man-made and natural follies. Flight It is the day after the leaves, when buckeyes, like a thousand thousand pendulums, clock trees, and squirrels, fat in their winter fur, chuckle hours, chortle days. It is the time for the parting of our ways. You slid into the summer of my sleeping, crept into my lonely hours, ate the music of my dreams. You filled yourself with the treated sweet I offered, then shut your rolling eyes and stole my sleep. Came morning and me awake. Came morning. Awake, I walked twelve miles to the six-gun shop. On the way there I saw a bird-of-prayer all furled up by the river. I called to it. It would not unfold. On the way home I killed it. It is the time of the waking cold, when buckeyes, like a thousand thousand metronomes, tock time, and you, fat on my summer sleep, titter toward me, walk away. It is the time for the parting of our days. "

Contents:

Cover

Book Title

Copyright Page

Contents

Acknowledgments

After Opening the New York Times I Wonder How to Write a Poem about Love

X

Daisy Cutter

A Massive Dying Off

Emergency Plan

Association Copy

On Ice

Flight

The Blue

The Way We Carry On

Prayer for P-

Since Everyone Can Never Be Safe

Arthritis is one thing, the hurting another

It Is

Ease

Something about Grandfathers

That's a State I'll Never Go Back To

Her mother sings warning of the new world

On the rocks

Five for Truth

The Little Building in which I Find the Ancient Cloister Store-room of St. Severin, which is Going to Disappear

before her heart, a mechanical aperture, closed

Post Modified Food

How She Keeps Faith

Out of the Darkness

My Lover Who Lives Far

Maybe Tuesday Will Be My Good News Day

Notes

Other Books in the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry

Back Cover.

Notes:

"Open competition award"--P. [4] of cover.

ISBN:

1-280-69794-6

9786613674906

0-8093-8633-X

OCLC:

742517218