The one certain thing / Peter Cooley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cooley, Peter, 1940- author.

Series:

Carnegie Mellon poetry

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--20th century.

American poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

73 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh : Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2021.

Summary:

Peter Cooley was born and educated in the Midwest and has lived over half of his life in New Orleans, where he was Professor of English, Senior Mellon Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing at Tulane University, and is now Professor Emeritus. The former Poet Laureate of Louisiana, he received the Marble Faun Award in Poetry and an Atlas Grant from the state of Louisiana. The father of three grown children, he published his tenth book World Without Finishing with Carnegie Mellon in 2018. Cooley is Poetry Editor of Christianity and Literature. Book jacket.

Contents:

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Widower

To My Wife, Thirty Days After Her Death

First Visitation

Etude: Down-Heaven

Ghost of a Moment

The Color My Sky Always Aspires To

Ye Holy Angels Bright

Etude: Furnitures of Grief

Reading Habits

Compline: a Canonical Hour

Two

Smoking, a Romance

Banality of Grief: a Visitation

Etude: Rooms We Live and Die In

Vespers: a Canonical Hour

Jason and the Aluminum Siding

You Left Me Your Legacy, Love

This Wind, That Wind, a Romance

Etude: You Must Change Your Life

Apologetics

Three

Mythos: a Visitation

First Day of Advent

Visitation: the Dog Next Door and Other Instances

Etude: Blues

The Monkeys, the Monkeys: an Anniversary Poem

Liminalities, a Romance

Etude: Three-Part Variation on a Loneliness

Epidermal: a Visitation

Spirit Ground, a Romance

This Didn't Happen, It Could Happen

Four

Barcarolle

Secrets of the Keys, a Romance

This Living Hand: a Visitation

Epithalamium

Etude: Dancer on One Foot

Bibliomania, a Romance

Hardscrabble

Etude: the Golden Hour

A Strand of Pearls

Columbarium

Five

Prime: a Canonical Hour

Etude: Not a Sex Poem

Interrogations Update

Community of Grief, a Romance

Matins, Evensong

Etude: October, Falling

Visitation: the Eighth Sacrament

Soundings

Letter to God, Letter to Jacki, a Romance

None: the Ninth Canonical Hour

Just One of the Afterdeaths

First Canonical Hour, Last Interrogation.

ISBN:

0887486665

9780887486661

OCLC:

1164498569