Field recordings : poems / by Russell Brakefield.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brakefield, Russell, author.

Series:

Made in Michigan writers series

Made in Michigan Writers Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--21st century.

American poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

93 pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

Detroit, Michigan : Wayne State University Press, [2018]

Summary:

Firmly rooted in the dramatic landscapes and histories of Michigan, Field Recordings uses American folk music as a lens to investigate themes of personal origin, family, art, and masculinity. The speakers of these poems navigate Michigan's folklore and folkways while exploring more personal connections to those landscapes and examining the timeless questions that occupy those songs and stories. With rich musicality and lyric precision, the poems in Field Recordings look squarely at what it means to be a son, a brother, an artist, a person. --amazon.com

Contents:

The Way We Learned to Sing

This Is America and We Are Boys

The Butcher's Boy

Orchestra

The Boy Whose Every Word Was Song

Florist's Apprentice, Age 19

Northern Michigan After Bar

Rag

The Ballad Form

Pardon, Trout Farm

Gate Keeper

Calendar Customs

Myth

After the Labor Day Procession

Minstrel

Silent Movie with Playback Slowed Down

Barn Dance

Rules for Recording Traditional Music, An Erasure

River Song

Distances Between the Head and Chest

Effigy

Field Recordings

The Wraith in the Creek

Mackinaw Island

Nain Rouge, Red Gnome

The Dog-man from Luther

The Girl with Birds for Hands

Raccoon Sighting Before Intimacy

Habitat Diorama

Unreliable Auguries

Halcyon and Her Mortal Lover

Carnival Song

The High and Lonesome Sound

Fermata

Ode to Joy

Shutter, Lag

Morning Song

Ruby Creek Road

Kalkaska County, Michigan

Wedding Song

The Perseids

Origins.

ISBN:

9780814344965

0814344968

OCLC:

1030582091