Selected poems / James Applewhite.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Applewhite, James.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

North Carolina--Poetry.

North Carolina.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (185 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This will be the first anthology of his selected poems to date.

Contents:

I. State Road, My Grandfather's Funeral. Driving through a Country America. The Sunplane. Leaf Mirrors. William Blackburn, Riding Westward. Looking for a Home in the South. Discardings. Visit with Artina. A Kid at the County Fair. Revisitings. Zeppelin Fantasy. Bordering Manuscript. To Alexander Solzhenitsyn, in Exile. War Summer. A Southern Elegy

II. The Capsized Boat. On the Homefront. A Vigil. A Garden's Season. Iron River. With Darkening Foliage. Diamond of Shadow. A Forge of Words. Combat Station. To Forgive this Inheritance. Images, Burning. A Minister, Crippled. Keeper of the Dragon's Teeth. Boundary Stones

III. Tobacco Men. Drinking Music. Building in the Country. Roadside Notes in Ragged Hand. Water. Blood Ties: For Jan. Pamlico River. January Farmhouse. White Lake. Firewood. Some Words for Fall. From as Far Away as Dying. The Mary Tapes

IV. Iron Age Flying. English Church Towers. Evening in Bath. Royal Hospital. Beginning with Egypt (The British Museum), Foreseeing the Journey

V. Jonquils. Collards. A Leaf of Tobacco. Barbecue Service. Southern Voices. The Morning After. Greene County Pastoral. Quitting Time. How to Fix a Pig (as told by Dee Grimes). The Advisors

VI. World's Shoulder, Turning. The Ford. Crossing on Cables. Constructing the River. Just Rain. Tree of Babel. Clear Winter. Like a Body in the River. The Sense of Light. When the Night Falls. In Sight of the Self. Buzzard's Roost. An Orphaned Voice. House of Seasons. The Water-Machine. The Sex of Divinity. Light Beyond Thought. Out of My Circle. Prayer for My Son. The Bison. Bridge Back Toward the South. Driving Toward Cairo. Rivers. The Self, that Dark Star. Sleeping with Stars and Bulbs, Time and Its Signs

VII. The War Against Nature. The Student Pilot Sleeps. Lessons in Soaring. Art and the Garden. The Failure of Southern Representation. A Place and a Voice. Greenhouse Effect. The Descent. A Conversation

VIII. Storm in the Briar Patch. Home Team. A Wilson County Farmer. Time at Seven Springs: An Elegy. After Winslow Homer's Images of Blacks. The Cemetery Next to Contentnea. A Father and Son. Light's Praise

IX. A Voice at the River Park. Botanical Garden: The Coastal Plains. Autumnal Equinox. Letter to My Wife, from Minnesota. A Tapestry in a Mirror in the Palazzo Pamphili. Sailing the Inlet. A Distant Father. Interstate Highway. Grandfather Wordsworth

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9786613021939

9781283021937

1283021935

9780822387008

082238700X

OCLC:

226068258