Strange angels : new poems / William Pitt Root.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Root, William Pitt, 1941-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (130 p.)

Place of Publication:

San Antonio, Tex. : Wings Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<P style=""MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"" class=MsoNormal>In this first major collection in nearly a decade from a revered American poet, William Pitt Root concerns himself with those extremes-spiritual, physical, or both-at which social and cultural forms disintegrate, leaving the individual as an unshielded witness to transitioning miracles that induce a state of awe that cannot be diminished, diverted, or ignored. In poem after poem, Root compels the reader to discover that these key moments require the heart to open and the mind to still in order to fully accept whatever results, whether it is to s

Contents:

Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Night Poem in the Shawangunks ; Why I Remember; Seagrape Tree and the Miraculous ; For Miss Fanny Taylor of Fort Myers, Florida, with Love ; Misconceptions ; Crossing the Rez ; The Snake-Handler's Wife ; Going My Way ; Strange Angel ; Why I Remember ; My Boots: Notes on Quality and Craft ; Notice ; Song from Chiapas ; Craft ; Translating Neruda ; Laureate's Proclamation ; At the Feast of the Last Breath; For Tim, Without Whom ; Boy at the Black Window ; One Death of Li Po ; At the Feast of the Last Breath ; The Lord's Work

On Learning a Friend's Name May Now Be Added to the Quilt "We Must Take Care of our Monsters" ; Being Moved ; Ballad of the Guys I Knew ; Neither Basalt Ledge nor Turnip, or: Forests and Fields; Query for Owl at Spring Equinox ; Most Likely ; One for the Climbers at Shawangunk Ridge ; From One Old Dog to Another ; Wolf at the Door ; A Flower of Human Light; Love Runes ; A Gift of Stone ; Another Note ; Ode to a Russian Blonde ; Desert Walk, After Rain, After Love ; This Kiss ; Stewe + Ingela, Ingela + Stewe ; Fools, Soothsayers and Kings; Classical Figures ; Conversions of a King

The Poet in Polite Society Cat in the Workshop ; With Luck: Wrapping up after a Writers' Conference ; To a Wasp Crawling over the Desk in my Study, Late ; Calling the World to Order ; 7 for a Magician ; Acknowledgments ; About the Author ; Back Cover

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-60940-322-3

OCLC:

855969789