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The Makings Of Happiness.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wallace, Ronald.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--20th century.
- American poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 1991.
- Summary:
- Wallace's poems cover the range of human experience: music, religion, sex, art, childhood, adolescence, nuclear war, illness, and death. But it's in his wit and good humor, against undercurrents of sorrow and grief that best characterize his poetry: part Emily Dickinson, and part Harpo Marx; part Woody Allen, and part Robert Frost.
- Contents:
- I. Early Brass
- Early Brass
- Bluegills
- Fresh Oysters & Beer
- Birdsong, Anyway
- Rebounding
- Condoms
- Camp Calvary
- Smoking
- Love and Sex
- Bible Stories
- Off the Record
- Fan Mail
- Speeding
- II. Breakdown
- Breakdown
- Onions
- Hairpin
- Headlines
- The Poetry Report
- At Forty
- Turning Forty
- Professor of Plums
- State Poetry Day
- The Dinner Party
- The Hell Mural: Panel I
- The Hell Mural: Panel II
- Fortunes
- III. The Makings of Happiness
- Building an Outhouse
- Wiffle Ball
- Basketball
- Barn Swallows
- Frogs
- Fall
- Poet in the Goat Yard
- Roosters
- The Fox in the Berry Patch
- Apple Cider. AstronomyNight in the Country
- February, Full Moon
- February Thaw
- Prayer
- Burning
- In the Amish Bakery
- The Fat of the Land
- The Makings of Happiness.
- Notes:
- Preliminaries omitted.
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