Truant pastures : the complete poems of Harry C. Staley / Harry C. Staley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Staley, Harry C., 1924-

Series:

Excelsior Editions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religious poetry.

War poetry.

American poetry--20th century.

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (154 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : Excelsior Editions/State University of New York Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Poems that ponder the conundrums of existence and religious faith in wartime.

Contents:

""Truant Pastures""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Introduction I""; ""Chalk It""; ""Introduction II. The Pesky Art of Harry C. Staley""; ""The Lives of a Shell-Shocked Chaplain:Charles McCaffery (b. 1920, d. 1978)""; ""Part I. Early Times""; ""Preliminary Report from Dr. Peters, Geo-therapist""; ""Penmanship (1931, 1984)""; ""Argument from Design (1933, 1980, 1930)""; ""Nocturnes (from early films)""; ""1. Dog-Fight (1928)""; ""2. Autopsy (1928)""; ""3. Double Feature (1929)""; ""4. All Quiet on the Western Front (1932)""; ""Services (1929)""; ""Biology One (1934, 1957)""

""Take Us In, Mister? (1930's, 1944)""""Asymptote (1945)""; ""Le Bourget (1946)""; ""Engagement (1949, 1917)""; ""Part II. Therapy(1970-1974)""; ""Immersion""; ""Casualties""; ""Sacrifications""; ""Dark Cubes""; ""Morning Song""; ""Apochrypha""; ""About the Aeneid""; ""Mother Behold Thy Son""; ""Early Gothic""; ""Tidings (Christmas 1930's, 1973)""; ""Contractions""; ""Ex-Capt. McCaffery""; ""Fr. Charles Visits Athens""; ""Offertory""; ""Caw""; ""Paradoxology""; ""Voltages and a Fading Coal""; ""Part III. Last Years and Nursing Home""; ""Final Diagnosis""

""Fish, Two Grown-Ups, Christ (1975)""""The Unknown General: Souvenirs (1978)""; ""Viaticum (1979)""; ""Person-To-Person (1979)""; ""Abortions (1979)""; ""Parakeet and Pilot (1979)""; ""Halloween""; ""Late Winters""; ""1. This Cold""; ""2. That Year�s Moon""; ""In the Nursing-Home""; ""1. The Senile General in the Garden""; ""2. The Senile General Contemplates a Snail""; ""3. The Senile General Remembers High School""; ""4. McCaffery's Solitaire (Nurse's notes)""; ""5. Transfusions""; ""6. McCaffery's Bardo""; ""7. McCaffery's Karma""; ""The Final Flight""; ""All One Breath""

""THOMAS KELLY""""Fourth Commandment""; ""Early Mission""; ""Sniper""; ""Beyond Victory""; ""Puberty""; ""First Will and Testament""; ""Tom Kelly's Journal: Two Kills""; ""Entreaty ['45]""; ""Nostalgia Bar""; ""Valor""; ""PROFESSOR KELLY""; ""Invocation""; ""A Letter from Tom Kelly, Sr.""; ""Snorkeling""; ""The Rat""; ""Kelly and Some Graves""; ""Obese as Buddha""; ""Interrogating the Ph.D.-Proposal""; ""Puntheism""; ""Lacanagain""; ""About Lower Case""; ""Tom Kelly Mimics R-b-rts-n D-v's""; ""Museum""; ""Construing Aliquis""; ""Never Say Dido""; ""Rest Energy and the Doe""

""About His Grandson""""Pneumatics""; ""Convalescent""; ""A Sermon Kelly Never Heard""; ""Waiting for Beckett""; ""Coma""; ""Waking Towards the Last December""; ""Elegy for Thomas Kelly""; ""CAIN AND OTHER RELATIVES""; ""Cain""; ""I Slew Abel""; ""Two Meals""; ""Cute Kelly's Semi-Final""; ""Dennis (Chips) Kelly on Pension""; ""Uncle Gus Kelly""; ""1. Spring 1938""; ""2. Nuncs""; ""UNCLE ORVILLE AND BEATRICE""; ""Liturgy: Father, Fowl, and Daughter""; ""Principal Parts: Orville Ely""; ""About Beatrice""; ""1. Beatrice Remembers Her Mother""; ""2. Beatrice Trip""

""3. Beatrice: Feast of the Epiphany 1948""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9781438438368

1438438362

9781461906353

1461906350

OCLC:

759598152