Twenty First Century Blues [electronic resource].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cecil, Richard.

Series:

Crab Orchard Series in Poetry

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry.

Local Subjects:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (111 p.)

Place of Publication:

Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Death, fame, art, and religion become comic subjects in Twenty First Century Blues, the fourth collection from Richard Cecil. Whether elegizing his predecessors, predicting his own end, channeling Dickinson's "corpse-eye-view of stony death," or imagining Yeats living in Indiana and dealing with English department politics, Cecil tempers his morbidity with a straightforward, tender brand of humor and a refreshing honesty about the shelf life of contemporary poetry. Deadpan and dark, yet pulsing with the spirit of life, these poems speak of historic France, Italy, and Swit

Contents:

Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. Lament for the Makers; Lament for the Makers; Catechism; Albi Cathedral; Limbo; Let's Pretend; Anti Ode to Autumn; Discuss "Divine Justice in The Inferno "; Fool's Gold; The Funeral Director: Against Cremation; The Worst Day of the Year; Portrait of Five Women and a Cat; The Writing Requirement; To the Poet Who Skipped My Reading & Died; A Letter to William Butler Yeats; 2. There's No Place Like Home; Package Tour; There's No Place Like Home; Almost an Apartment in Antibes; Evolution in Indiana; Heaven; As You Like It

Let 's Go!A Rare Bird; Where Am I?; The Tower of Babel; Internal Exile; Written in Exile; 3. A Lesson in Generosity; Falling Off the Wagon; A Christmas Poem; Holy Sonnet; On Being Asked to Contribute to The Idiot's Guide to Poetry; Sailing to Pesaro; 2001: HAL, Meet Dell; Summer Faculty Enrichment Grant Application; Meditation on a Half-Line of Shakespeare's; Letter of Recommendation; A Lesson in Generosity; 4. Twenty First Century Blues; Contrary Elegy; Summer Diet; Oona; Ghosts in the Kitchen; Roots; Happy Birthday,Richard!; The Diver; Final Exercise -The Rain Poem; November's Advice

Flying HomeTwenty First Century Blues; Other Books in the Series; Back Cover

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

0-8093-8881-2

1-299-05084-0

OCLC:

856870445