Unsettled accounts : poems / Will Wells.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wells, Will, 1952- author.

Series:

Hollis Summers Poetry Prize

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--21st century.

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (97 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

To take the mess of life and make meaning from it is what all poets seek to do. For Will Wells, recipient of the thirteenth annual Hollis Summers Poetry Prize, this includes reaching across centuries and continents, into the minds and hearts of disparate individuals-Albert Einstein, Andrea Yates, the traveler from Porlock, Dante, or Holocaust survivors, including his own grandmother-to extract the personal value embedded there for him. By turns funny, shocking, gentle, and musing, the poems of Unsettled Accounts reflect Will Wells's constant attention to his environment and to his past-and t

Contents:

Acknowledgments; Contents; I.; Ping-Pong with the Nazis; Hard Water; Last Peaches, Chalfont St. Giles, 1665; Horse Girl; Terrace on the Val Venosta; The Persistence of Memory: Houston, 2001; 1962; An Atonement; The New Bed; Spring Fever; Dirty Laundry; Along the Troubled Shore; Object Lessons; Young Retrievers: Near Oxford, 1973; The Traveler from Porlock Makes a Journal Entry, July 1797; Visiting Grandma Emma; Unsettled Accounts; Dance Lesson: Oakland Veterans' Memorial Hall; In Venice Ghetto, 2006; Lovebirds; The Jewish Cemetery on the Lido; The Nest; Stung; Padova Pilgrimage

Arbeit Macht FreiLast Judgment in Ferrara; II.; The Shadow Racers; St. Peter's on the Mountainside; Camping with Jarrell; Gold Panning on the Arkansas River near Leadville, Colorado; China in Italy; A Scholar's Suicide; Einstein's Bellhop; The Lion at the Fountain; Passovers; Feuds; "Crazy-bucks"; Terra-Cotta; Live Fire; In Vain: Chekhov Curses a Production of Uncle Vanya; Catching Lizards near Vicenza; Notes from the Temple; Nocturne with Revolver, Moscow, 1930; Duet; Past Midnight, I Soak My Feet, Ravenna, 1317; Harvest Home, Northamptonshire, 1644; From Jerusalem Hill; Indigo

Dorothy, Middle-AgedThe Final Toast; Heaven and Hell in the Arena Chapel; Hearing the Beat; The South Tower; Shells; Putting It Together; Notes

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 83-86).

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780821443064

0821443062

OCLC:

794698925