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Ashes & stars / Daniel Hughes ; edited by Mary Hughes ; foreword by Edward Hirsch ; introduction by Michael Scrivener.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hughes, Daniel, 1929-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (88 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Detroit, Mich. : Wayne State University Press, c2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Fifty-five of Daniel Hughes's final poems, containing distinctly insightful and literate meditations on themes of love, art, and hope.
- Contents:
- ""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Introduction""; ""I""; ""I Whip Around""; ""If We Let Go, Of Course Death Has Us""; ""Back""; ""Icarus""; ""At Last""; ""Please""; ""“The Book Fell from His Hand�""; ""Take the Big Subject: Exile""; ""Travel""; ""Torn, Filthy Maps""; ""Narcissus (Caravaggio)""; ""I Have Lived""; ""Nature""; ""Frond""; ""I Have Been Wrong, Wrong, Wrong""; ""Even""; ""Not Seeing Vermeer""; ""II""; ""To Charles Harte, Not Alive When Heaney Won the Nobel Prize""; ""Why Didn�t You Tell Me You Were the Great Poet�s Muse?""; ""Mother from Beyond the Grave""; ""Soft""
- ""Next Time""""Self-Wounding""; ""Obituaries""; ""Steve: The Silences""; ""Anywhere Out of the World""; ""III""; ""To Mary 5:00 A.M.""; ""Hurt""; ""Glimpse""; ""Best Choices""; ""O I Like""; ""You Feed Me""; ""The Steady-On Agnostic Needs a Muse""; ""Epipsychidion Again (To Karen)""; ""To K��""; ""Let It Out (To E.W.)""; ""Your Dead Lovers""; ""Easter 1996""; ""The Divine Sparks Trapped in the World""; ""Were I""; ""It�s All""; ""IV""; ""Saint Mary�s Schoolyard""; ""Lament of Goliath""; ""My Brutal Face Has Lasted Four Hundred Years""; ""Painting Destroyed: Caravaggio""
- ""Berlioz Killed an Opera in His Head""""Down""; ""To a Poet""; ""The Fate of Books""; ""Poem""; ""Reading a Writer Recently Dead""; ""Not for Poets""; ""After All""; ""My Poem Making Its Way in the World""; ""Here Come the Notes to My Poems""
- Notes:
- Poems.
- ISBN:
- 9780814335819
- 0814335810
- OCLC:
- 755624531
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