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As if light actually matters : new & selected poems / Larry D. Thomas ; cover art and design Nancy Parsons.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thomas, Larry D., 1947- author.
- Standardized Title:
- Poems. Selections (Texas Review Press)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Texas--Poetry.
- Texas.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (218 p.)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Huntsville, Texas : Texas Review Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The present volume draws on nine book-length collections of Thomas's poetry, and includes a generous selection of new poems. Five of the collections are comprised of poems of geographic place, four of which are set primarily in Texas. His fifth "place" collection is set on the coast of Maine. The poems selected from his remaining collections range in subject matter from outlaw bikers to ekphrasis; from the avian world to an asylum for the criminally insane. PIANO TUNER The tools of his trade are unassuming and relatively primitive. The stagehand is his counterpart in drama. In the shadows of architects, for grand cathedrals of sonatas, he lays the bricks. Of pitch and tone, he is master. Even a concert pianist steers clear of his ear.
- Contents:
- Driving home
- Chiaroscuro
- Coyanosa
- Glass mountains
- Near Alpine (far West Texas)
- Clarity
- Depression glass
- Lucius
- Rattlers
- Coyotes in winter
- The light
- For what or whom
- On stationery of light
- Deep woods
- Lye soap
- The draft
- Cantaloupes
- In the shade of my neglect
- Even the roses are ill
- Winter trees
- Housefly
- Gecko
- Bobcat
- Puma, cougar, panther, mountain lion
- Wolf in the rain
- Steers in summer, lowing
- The goatherd's fingers
- Munificence
- The dead shark
- Curandero
- Rudyard's Pub
- Sleepwalker
- The teacher
- Dark horse
- Jewel
- Pale horse, pale rider
- Signs
- Ghosts
- With a chest of wings, caliban in blue
- Our Lady of Guadalupe
- The dump
- Kimbell Art Museum
- Church, Taos Pueblo
- Shotguns, 1987
- The security guard
- The docent
- The restorer
- The art preparators
- Taos light
- His hard art
- The old man and the sea
- Harmonica
- Piano tuner
- From: Amazing grace
- "Of dust thou art"
- The red raging waters
- String cadenza
- Primary colors
- Rattlesnake roundup
- Fox fire
- The slough
- Crows roosting
- Late sonata
- Of eyes wondrously wild
- Of beasts become angels
- Mooring line
- For wentletraps
- Still water
- Silverwork
- The light of Mexico
- From: Where skulls speak wind
- Wind
- Antique shop, after closing
- Mercado
- Poinsettias
- Road kill
- A place in the sun
- Of fathers and sons
- The night we were Gods
- Bluing
- Kaleidoscope
- Grandmother Thomas
- Mule trader
- The Cisco Kid
- Jake
- Aunt Mae and Uncle Worley's rocker
- Alzheimer's
- From: Stark beauty
- The skull seller
- Texas mountain laurel
- Bluebonnets
- The stroll
- Cotton
- The vacant lot
- When his end was near
- Harvest moon
- Drovers
- Over barbecue
- From the faraway nearby
- Bones
- Stark
- Western artist
- From: The fraternity of oblivion
- Rite
- The initiate
- A brother
- The tribe
- They left his face
- Procession
- The black hearts
- At perfect ease
- The virtuosa
- A pierced ear
- Of graven stone
- From: Larry D. Thomas: TCU Texas poet laureate series
- Neches River
- In the Voodoo Lounge
- Twin spinsters in blue
- The laws of his kind
- Crabber
- In the nacreous hours
- Apricots
- Bach
- Flaking the slate gravestones
- In Maine
- French Quarter
- A matter of color
- The dragonfly
- Crow with red sky
- Coma
- Minotaur
- From: The skin of light
- Skin
- First, it was Santa Claus
- The winter sky
- Gibbous moon
- As if
- Dying vulture at sundown
- The crow
- Sparrow egg
- Mayflies
- The lovers
- Apache child
- Hot pink, day-glo chartreuse, and electric blue
- Palimpsest
- Stained glass
- The miners
- Black-on-black
- From: A murder of crows
- The sparrow
- Old blue jay
- Starlings
- Driftwood gull
- Hawks
- Raptor
- Raven is his favorite verb
- A dark choir
- Crow
- Both the proposition and the proof
- Caged crow
- Old crow
- He's the dark mercury
- Crows in the rain
- Unabridged
- The pure, white crow
- Were I a crow
- From: Uncle Ernest
- The worshipers
- Stained overalls
- In his dream
- White plastic knives
- Windowsill
- Deep blues
- The hawk
- Blue moon
- The faded snapshot
- Warm eggs
- The folding wings
- From: The lobsterman's dream (poems of the coast of Maine)
- The ocean
- Monhegan Island
- Winter harbor
- Dory
- Scrimshaw
- The warning
- The lobster
- The lobsterman's dream
- The lighthouse keepers
- Mainers
- Tide pool touch tank
- From: Chapbooks: The circus; Plain pine; Five lavender minutes of an afternoon; and The red, candlelit darkness (complete)
- The circus
- The big top
- The house of mirrors
- The clown
- The elephant man
- The fat lady
- Hermaphrodite
- Siamese twins
- Plain pine
- Cool water
- The dark child
- The big, red rooster
- Her untowelled woods
- Five lavender minutes of an afternoon
- "Mama Sug"
- Baby horny frogs (Texas Horned lizards)
- Of loaves and fishes
- Lake Balmorhea (far West Texas)
- The red, candlelit darkness (Chisos Mining Company, early 1900's, Terlingua, Texas)
- Silver pesos
- Candy and blue denim
- Little rivers
- The bruja
- Rawhide buckets
- The miracle
- The faces
- Like the hands of bronze-fleshed clocks
- The burning
- The dazzling burro
- The mouths
- Red
- The sounds of devils
- The screams.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-68003-025-6
- OCLC:
- 938018932
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