Swallowing the soap : new and selected poems / William Kloefkorn; edited and with an introduction by Ted Genoways.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kloefkorn, William.

Contributor:

Genoways, Ted.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry.

American literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (464 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume, the first to span the forty-year career of Nebraska state poet William Kloefkorn, brings together the best-known and most beloved poems by one of the most important Midwestern poets of the last half century. Collecting work from limited editions and hard-to-find books, along with Kloefkorn's most anthologized poems, Swallowing the Soap is an indispensable one-volume compendium of the work of a major American poet. "These poems aim for nothing less than the impossible: to understand what it means to be alive and human on this moveable earth," writes the editor, Ted Genoways. Swallowing the Soap is filled with the panoramic landscapes of Kansas and Nebraska, the stories of the rough and tender people who live there, and the moments of heartache, brutality, loss, and redeeming joy that shape their lives. It offers a vision, at once intimate and expansive, of the world of the Great Plains as seen by one of its most eloquent poets.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

Source Acknowledgments

Introduction: A Life Like Yours

New Poems

Eating Mulberries for Breakfast

World War Two

Waiting for the End

Living Without It

Rainbow

Fairbanks, Late July

What He Said

Babble

Confrontation

Surgery

October

Dread

Haywire

Horseshoes and Hand Grenades

Let There Be Music

Driving through the Winnebago Reservation on My Way to Sioux Falls

Schooling

South Padre Island, Early Evening

At the Pantry

Memory

Moving

Over the Years

Along Highway 14 in Southern Washington

What the Churchbells Say

An Old Story

Learning to Soar

Low Tide at Oregon's Waikki Beach

Late Morning, Almost Noon

Weeding

Upon Planning to Break My Fast a Day Early

Now the Juniper

Arrival

Tea

Birdsong

Newborn

Silence

Red Cedar

Writer in Residence at Sheridan Elementary

With My Wife at the Super Saver

Ponderosa

Singing Just for the Music of It

Accessories

Name

Purple Iris

Dying to Get by with Everything

Bringing Up the Rear

Selected Poems from Alvin Turner as Farmer

From Uncertain the Final Run to Winter

Uncertain the Final Run to Winter

Country Boy

Cleaning Out My Dead Grandfather's Barn

Dec. 8, 1941

Prime Moving

LTL

Town Team

The Spring House

Unloneliness Poem

Selected Poems from loony

Selected Poems from ludi jr

From Stocker

Fairport

Elsie Martin

Mrs. Wilma Hunt

Sonny

Urie

The Rearranging

Stocker

From Cottonwood County

Beginnings

New Year's Eve

Jubilation

Out-and-Down Pattern

My Love for All Things Warm and Breathing

If Only I Can Shake off This Dream All of the Others Should Follow

I Don't Like Having a Grasshopper in My Hair

Daddy (Drunk) Mows the Lawn at Midnight.

Benediction

Selected Poems from Leaving Town

From Not Such a Bad Place to Be

Not Such a Bad Place to Be

Teenage Halloween

For My Wife's Father

Braces

Returning to Caves

Thanksgiving

Final Scenario #6

Epitaph for a Grandfather

From Let the Dance Begin

Benediction

My Granddaughter, Age 3, Tells Me the Story of the Wizard of Oz

For My Brother, Who Has New False Teeth

Selected Poems from Honeymoon

Selected Poems from Platte Valley Homestead

Selected Poems from Houses and Beyond

From within the First House

Each Board that Formed the Next House

I Had Been Chained and Padlocked

Franklin Walked Off the Deep End

On a Hot Day after Rain

Janet Moved Away

Standing on the Back Porch

Mother Said She Was Glad Now

Taking the Milk to Grandmother

Killing the Swallows

Rushing the Season

In the Treehouse with Franklin

Whatever Is Elevated and Pure, Precisely on Key

On the Road: Sunday, March 6, 1977

From Collecting for the Wichita Beacon

Collecting for the Wichita Beacon

Sowing the Whirlwind

Waiting to Jell

One of Those

Cornsilk

Solitude

From A Life Like Mine

Onion Syrup

The Great Depression

Christmas 1939

Sunday Morning

Prove It

Black Cat

Walking the Tracks

Kicking Leaves

My Daughter Pregnant

From Where the Visible Sun Is

Creation

Fixing Flats

Christmas 1940

The Louvre

For Proof

An Interlude for Morning

The Day I Pedaled My Girlfriend Betty Lou All the Way Around the Paper Route

You Have Lived Long Enough

Undressing by Lamplight

Easter Sunday

From Drinking the Tin Cup Dry

Last Summer and the One Before

A Red Ryder BB-Gun for Christmas

George Eat Old Gray Rat at Pappy's House Yesterday

At Shannon's Creek, Early August

Drinking with My Father

Firstborn.

Walking to the Hinky Dinky with my Grandson, Almost 4

Looking for Halley's Comet

Taking the Test

Watercolor: The Door

Driving Back to Kansas to Watch a Wedding

Independent

Cave

Drinking the Tin Cup Dry

From Dragging Sand Creek for Minnows

Last of the Mohicans

Running Home

Jumping Rope

Driving Back Home in My Wife's Father's Old Chevrolet

Wildwood, Early Autumn

Write a Blank-Verse Poem Using Someone Else's Voice, Someone Dead, Someone Who You Believe Was Not Treated Fairly While Alive

Achilles' Heel

At Maggie's Pond

Burning the House Down

From Going Out, Coming Back

Dress

Swallowing the Soap

Dancing in the Cornfield

Epiphany

Odyssey

Last Day of School

Jacks

Fishing with My Two Boys at a Spring-Fed Pond in Kansas

Outage

From Burning the Hymnal

The Color of Dusk

Threnody

This Is the Photograph Not Taken

Back to Kansas

Going There Sometime

Legend

From Treehouse: New and Selected Poems

Not Dreaming

Separations

The Day the Earthquake Was Scheduled to Happen but Didn't

Non-Stop Begonias

On a Porch Swing Swinging

After the Drunk Crushed My Father

Treehouse

Singing Hymns with Unitarians

A City Waking Up

From Covenants

Covenant

Learning the Drum

Rainfall

KTSW, Sunday Morning

Saturday Night

Last Visit

Geese

Afternoon in October

Counting the Cows

Church

Sustaining the Curse

From Welcome to Carlos

Welcome to Carlos

Stuka

Home

Gypsy Rose

Back Roads

Balls

Revival

Reap the Wild Wind

Quixotic

Circus

Limits

Giddy

Sand Creek

Dirt

Departures

Pennies

From Loup River Psalter

Song

Flannel

Bushmill

Instrumental

Requiem

Catfishing

Woodshed

Connections

Blues.

Selected Poems from Sergeant Patrick Gass, Chief Carpenter: On the Trail with Lewis &amp

Clark

From Fielding Imaginary Grounders

Learning Chautauqua

Countries

Bushes Burning

For Some Strange Reason

Covenants

Walking the Grounds at St. Elizabeth Hospital, DC

Somewhere in the Vicinity of Ecclesiastes

The Almost Dead

Soul

Remembering Religion

Brothers

Desiring Desire

From Sunrise, Dayglow, Sunset, Moon

Balsa

Star of the East

In a Church Basement Damp from Last Night's Rain

Sawdust

Javelin

Living with Others

Library of No Return

In the Black Hills Whistling Dixie

At Hemlock Hollow near Logan, Ohio

Funeral for an Old Woman

For My Wife's Mother

Watching My Granddaughter, 7, Test for Her Purple Belt

Discoveries

Shooting the Rabbit

From Walking the Campus

Nouns

November 22, 1963

Theater

Moving On

August 12, 1992

After the Ice Storm

Connections: A Toast

From Still Life Moving

Braids

Proud

Flight

Quest

Spheres

Water

Sleep

Grass Woman

Still Life Moving

From Out of Attica

Early July

After the First Good Early-Spring Shower

Avon Calling

Titles

Looking for Scrap Iron at the Village Dump

Digging

Distances

August

Darkroom

Saved

Bits &amp

Pieces

We Take My Wife's Father Fishing One More Time

Flying over Chicago

At the Mayo Clinic

Daughters

From In a House Made of Time

Walking and Looking Down

Crossing Heaven.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

1-283-05106-0

9786613051066

0-8032-3441-4

OCLC:

778209311