Not all saints / by Sean Thomas Dougherty.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dougherty, Sean Thomas, author.

Series:

Bitter Oleander Press library of poetry. Original poetry series

Original poetry series

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

74 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Fayetteville, New York : Bitter Oleander Press, 2020.

Contents:

Let Me Tell You a Story p. 15

The Way Light Falls p. 16

Sepia Postcard Near Atlantic City Circa 1987 p. 18

Against the Indifference of Angels p. 20

Not All Saints p. 22

A Drawer A Window A Vault p. 25

The Men and the Quiet p. 28

Long Before We Were Ruptured p. 29

Western Psychiatric Institute p. 30

Asphyxiation p. 31

Those Notes We Compose p. 32

Portrait of Townes Van Zant as a Murder p. 34

Sonnet with a Sadness like Birds p. 35

Ask the House Sparrow p. 36

Ask the Ghost Roads p. 38

There is One Blue River p. 40

Ask the Breath of this Blue Hour p. 41

Ask the Rain What It Knows p. 42

Ask the Dead Leaves p. 44

These Streets of Laments p. 45

Poem for my Wife Younger p. 46

Ask the Evening Light its Shape p. 48

Parable of a Marriage p. 50

Tell Me Again p. 51

The Little Bird that Rattled p. 52

What Long Ellipsis p. 53

The Singing Wreck of Us p. 54

The Indifferent Wind Tells Me Any Dirt p. 56

The Black Flags of our Bodies p. 57

Under Lilacs p. 58

t p. 59

The Sound We Make When Falling p. 60

Poem with a Line from Kundera p. 61

Cleveland Heights Monologue p. 62

ER p. 64

If I Had Not Been Stillborn p. 66

What Little Hobbies for the Dead p. 67

Praise Is to Claim a Departure from this World p. 68

Some of the Hidden Things No One Wants to Talk about while Saying Goodbye p. 69

Poem Written in the Margin of Cloud Atlas p. 70.

Notes:

The Bitter Oleander Press Library of Poetry Award Winner for 2019.

The Bittter Oleander Press Library of Poetry Award Winner for 2019.

ISBN:

9780999327975

0999327976

OCLC:

1143848833

Publisher Number:

99985063502