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Blue Like the Heavens : New and Selected Poems
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gildner, Gary
- Series:
- Pitt poetry series.
- Pitt Poetry Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--20th century.
- American poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 1984.
- Summary:
- "Aliveness is Gary Gildner's striking quality, " Crystal McLean writes in the magazine New Letters, and thise selection of Gary Gildner's previously published poems, plus eighteen new poems, demonstrates the aptness of that perception. Accessible and eminently readable, the poems in Blue Like the Heavens also possess great emotional depth. Readers who complain about the obscurity of contemporary American poetry will delight in this book.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- First Practice (1969)
- First Practice
- Wean Poem
- Edward
- Letter to a Substitute Teacher
- Szostak
- The Shy Roofer
- Poems
- My Coed Wife
- To My Daughter
- For Judy
- Digging for Indians (1971)
- Geisha
- Harold Fogel Could Be Anywhere
- Eeny, Meeny, Miney, Mo, Miss Beech
- The Farm
- The Girl in the Red Convertible
- Mark Only One Circle
- Rustling a Hog
- My Mother Writes...
- Heart Attack
- Digging for Indians
- Meeting the Reincarnation Analyst
- 8/22/38-8/22/68
- The Last Monarch of the Season
- Nails (1975)
- The House on Buder Street
- After World War II
- Around the Kitchen Table
- Nails
- They Have Turned the Church Where I Ate God
- Prayer for My Father
- Passion Play
- The Life of the Wolf
- The Man and the Goshawk
- Burn-Out
- Xmas
- Meeting My Best Friend from the Eighth Grade
- Around the Horn
- That Summer
- Kneeling in the Snow
- The Runner (1978)
- My Father After Work
- The Runner
- Johann Gaertner (1793-1887)
- Today They Are Roasting Rocky Norse
- When the Retarded Swim
- Letters from Vicksburg
- The Page Turner
- 4th Base
- The High-Class Bananas
- Life &
- Death in Skokie
- Statistics
- Last Articles
- Toads in the Greenhouse
- Poem
- New Poems
- Blue Like the Heavens
- The Porch
- In the Beginning
- Always in Late Summer Now, in the City
- The Day Before Thanksgiving, A Call Comes to Me Concerning Insulation
- Ice Shanties
- A Field Mouse at My Fishing Hole
- Poem with Levels of Meaning
- Uncle George at the Home
- All Hallows' Eve in Kansas
- Jabon
- In the Social Security Office
- A Letter from My Good Hand
- Is My Heart Really Big as My Fist?
- Wheat
- It's Spring, Lover
- Old Farm in Northern Michigan
- A Memory.
- Notes:
- Preliminaries omitted.
- ISBN:
- 9780822992011
- 0822992019
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