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The smoke of horses : poems / by Charles Rafferty.
LIBRA PS3568.A378 A6 2017
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rafferty, Charles, 1965- author.
- Series:
- American poets continuum series ; v. 164.
- American Poets Continuum Series ; no. 164
- Standardized Title:
- Poems. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 76 pages ; 24 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Rochester, NY : BOA Editions, Ltd., 2017.
- Summary:
- "In this fascinating new collection by longtime poet Charles Rafferty, evocative prose poems insert strange and mysterious twists into otherwise mundane middle-class scenarios. With wonderful intelligence and imagination, these compact, revelatory poems show us what is possible when we jettison accepted devices of thought for methods that are stranger, and much truer. Charles Rafferty is the author of six collections of poetry, one collection of stories, and two poetry chapbooks. He lives in Sandy Hook, CT, where he works at a technology research firm, directs the MFA program at Albertus Magnus College, and teaches in the Westport Writers' Workshop"-- Provided by publisher.
- "This is an original book of poetry"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- After the Flood 11
- Diminution 12
- Grackles 13
- Golf Course Moon 14
- An Adulterous Spring 15
- A Demonstration of How One Thing Leads to Another 16
- The Problem with Where We Live 17
- Drift 18
- Mal Evans Counting 19
- Futility 20
- The Man Who Bled Wine 21
- First Owl 22
- Reflection 23
- The Problem with Wanting Something 24
- Unnoticed 25
- Fitting 26
- The Problem with Sappho 27
- Attraction 28
- Insomnolence 29
- State of Affairs 30
- Flags 31
- Genie 32
- Metropolitan 33
- The Problem with African Violets 34
- Winter Festival 35
- Leisure 36
- Caught 37
- Two Pianos 38
- Two People Kissing in the Park as Seen from a Speeding Train 39
- Windows 40
- For the Last Polaroid 41
- Carp 42
- Aqueduct 43
- Quarry 44
- The Reductionist 45
- Resumption 46
- Royalty 47
- Barbarian 48
- Garden State Racetrack 49
- The Problem with Mercy 50
- Blackbirds 51
- Hotel Bible 52
- Catena 53
- The Problem with Spotfin Shiners 54
- Magellan 55
- Antique 56
- An Explanation of How One Thing Leads to Another 57
- Proofs 58
- The Untuned Piano 59
- Pelican 60
- Ellipses 61
- Forecast 62
- Summer 1985 63
- Snowfall After Hearing Hard News 64
- On First Looking into Keats's Chapman's Homer 65
- A Farewell to Poetry 66
- The Saddest Bid for Immortality Ever Devised 67.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Rafferty, Charles, 1965- Smoke of horses.
- ISBN:
- 9781942683476
- 1942683472
- OCLC:
- 974698278
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