The book of what stays / James Crews.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Crews, James, 1980-

Series:

Prairie schooner book prize in poetry.

Prairie schooner book prize in poetry

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (97 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln [Neb.] : University of Nebraska Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<DIV>For any of us, what stays? For the arsonist's wife who has not yet left? The devout saint trudging another mile in his nail-shoes? The lost couple in their dying moments in a Nebraska blizzard? The old woman who refuses to leave her home in Chernobyl? With an unflinching eye, James Crews gives us the forbidden love, forbidden unions, and secret lives that, whatever the loss, the attrition, the cost, we must acknowledge, must hold, must keep. And here, in Crews's finely wrought, deeply felt poems, is their testimony. </DIV>

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; I.; Palomino; The Abandoned Church of St. Mary Magdalene; Paradoxical Undressing; Sex in the Rain; Catch; Regret; Against Seizing; Foreshadowing; The Birds Have Not Yet Left Chernobyl; Orpheus, Still Singing; A Beginner's Guide to Ice Fishing; An Unexpected Warm Day in Wisconsin; Looking Back; The Farmer's Wife Has Not Yet Left Him; Dare to Speak; After Revelation; Revision; II.; One Hundred Small Yellow Envelopes; 1. (Proof); 2. (Total Eclipse); 3. (City of Gold, City of Salt); 4. (The Gold Field); 5. (Wawanaisa Lake: Ross)

6. (Wawanaisa Lake)7. (Nowhere Better Than This Place); 8. (Letter to Felix: Ross); 9. (Perfect Lovers); 10. (The Raising of Lazarus); 11. (Golden); 12. (Lover Boys); 13. (Estimations: Ross); 14. (Aparicion); 15. (Fan Letter); 16. (Bedroom, After); 17. (Orpheus, Twice); 18. (One Hundred Small Yellow Envelopes); 19. (Last Light); 20. (Assumption); III.; What Light Does; Metacognition; With This Kiss; Les Cendres; The Arsonist's Wife Has Not Yet Left Him; Leonardo, Lovelorn in Santa Babila; The Naming; How to Write a Love Poem; Saints Sergius and Bacchus: A Martyrology; Like Angels

Calamus, Not DrowningAnniversary; The Gardeners; Red-Tailed Hawk, Summer Storm; The Bees Have Not Yet Left Us; Notes

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9786613596178

9781280546976

1280546972

9780803237827

0803237820

OCLC:

793511399