Solving for X : poems / Robert B. Shaw.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shaw, Robert B. (Robert Burns), 1947-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry.

American literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (85 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Athens : Ohio University Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Solving for X, his award-winning collection of new poems, Robert B. Shaw probes the familiar and encounters the unexpected; in the apparently random he discerns a hidden order. Throughout, Shaw ponders the human frailties and strengths that continue to characterize us, with glances at the stresses of these millennial times that now test our mettle and jar our complacency. Often touched with humor, his perceptions are grounded in devoted observation of the changing world. As in his previous collections, Shaw in these poems unites conversational vigor with finely crafted metrical lines.

Contents:

The Future Perfect; Back Again; A Bowl of Stone Fruit; Airs and Graces; The First Mosquito; A Field of Goldenrod; Anthology Piece; The End of the Sonnet; Dec. 23; The Devil's Garden; Waiting Room; The Latest Sign; The Arbor; A Roadside Flock; "Called Back"; Up and Away; Drowned Towns; Snowplow in the Night; Espalier; Shoptalk: Ten Epigrams; Waste; A Paper Cut; Solving for X; Ant in Amber; Wishing Well; Seed Catalogues in Winter; A Flashback; Typo; Buyer's Remorse; The Draft; Letter of Recommendation; Out of Character; Making Do; Static; Pilgrims; September Brownout; Other Eyes; Remainders

QWERTY Now and Then; Living past 19; A Drained Fountain; Amnesia: Fragments

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9780821441206

0821441205

OCLC:

889675416