The chanter's reed / James Ragan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ragan, James, 1944- author.

Contributor:

Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

84 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cliffs of Moher, County Clare, Ireland : Salmon Poetry, 2020.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: I. Afterplay

The Chanter's Reed

Blinded by my Senses

On Lines I'm Not Sure Art My Own

Rage

Remembering My Lai After Leaving the VA Hospital Healing Farm

Under the Sign of the Societe D'Encouragement Pour Industrie Nationale

Rumination

Sometimes a Fly

Two Opossums Lying at a Train Crossing

The Dumbing Down Finale

Submission

After All

The Gift

II. Imagine

Cradled

The Belly of a Spoon

Imagine Another

Lament for a Milltown Son

Drinking Ouzo at Kolanaki Square

Not Every Girl Comes Naked to the Forest

Stretching the Imagination

On the Train to Cambridge Through Ely

Mugwampery

Dropping Fuel Over the Pacific

Death Longs for Its Own Garden

III. Primal

The Penguin Stone

Primal

Taming the Sloth

The Beachcomber

Let's Say You Like Horses

For the Nippers and Pippers

The Need for Visionaries

At a Loss

Notes on My Two Day Ph.D. Discuss Party

The Poet Laureate and the Team Captain Christ

To the Immunologist Who Studied Bald Mice

IV. Astonishment

Swan-Upping On the Thames

The Bitters at Henley

Buying a Print of Van Gogh's Irises

The Weight of an Umbrella

In a Time of Terminological Inexactitude

Sharpening My Wit

Mapping the Universe

The Astonishment of Light

At His Dying Moment Einstein Whispered ... Now

Under the Under

A Room on the Irish Coast

The Venus Star.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

ISBN:

9781912561889

1912561883

OCLC:

1198589256

Publisher Number:

99985894318