The complaints / W. s. Di Piero.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Di Piero, W. S., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--21st century.

American poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

60 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh : Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2019.

Contents:

I

These Early Fall Days p. 11

The Processionals p. 12

Their Winter Songs p. 13

An Evening Outside Cedar City p. 14

The Swallows p. 15

Montale's Motet #6 ("La speranza di pure rivederti") p. 16

At an Exhibition of Unfinished Works p. 17

In the Marina p. 18

The Man on the Water p. 19

One and Two and Three p. 20

"Pacific Surfliner" Now Arriving San Diego p. 21

The Sidewalk Harvest p. 22

Which Aisle? p. 24

"Lavender All Over Again" p. 25

II

Wheels, Fenders, Windshields, Hoods p. 29

The Family Circle p. 31

Egypt at Pep's p. 33

Maria Angelucci p. 35

Catch You at the Oregon p. 36

To SFO p. 37

The Rain So Cold p. 38

Jackson Pollock Lines p. 39

A Day in the Country p. 40

Words for Nimrod p. 41

Raven Has His Say p. 42

Poems from Notebooks p. 43

In the Kitchen

He Says She Says

Mackerel in the Sea

The Settlements

On the Radio

To Joan Miró, db, Billie Miró, Thelonius Blue, and Certain Friends

The Time of Day

The Feel of Things

And Just Like That

The Motion

III

The Words p. 51

Before the Reading p. 52

Saturday and Its Autumn Wind p. 53

El Niño p. 54

The Complaints p. 55

1 The Young Alfonso

2 Migrant Alfonso

3 His Shadow Gets Away from Him

4 These Jersey Sheets from Jersey

5 The Motion Pictures

6 My Fats

7 Here We Go Again at 4 A.M.

8 I Keep Your Time

9 My Two Sleeps

10 Ash Wednesday on the 22-Fillmore Bus

11 By the Seawall.

ISBN:

0887486460

9780887486463

OCLC:

1076805576