Zinc Fingers : Poems a To Z

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Meinke, Peter

Series:

Pitt poetry seriesPitt poetry series.

Pitt Poetry Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--20th century.

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Peter Meinke's eleventh collection, he writes poems of humor and sadness. His poems speak truth with the self-assurance of a man willing to laugh at himself and, by extension, he invites us to laugh at ourselves as well.

Contents:

Absence

Apples

Arthritis in St. Petersburg

Assisted Living

The Brain

Certitude

Circe

The Cliff at Gorge de l'Areuse

Coal

Coffee

Driving through a Storm near Boothbay Harbor

Each Morning

Election

Finches on Aycock Street

Fortunato Pietro

Francis

Grandfather at the Pool

A Handheld Camera Visits Billy's Bar at Happy Hour

A Hawk in Athens

History

Home on Cape Cod

A Hot Day in June

The House on Taylor Avenue

The Housekeeper in London

The Humane Trap

Ibises

In Memoriam

J J Nortle

Japanese Soldier

John Keyes & Freud

Kissing

Letting Go

M[subscript 3]

Magnolia

Making Love with the One

A Meditation on You and Wittgenstein

Mulch

Multiple Readings in National Poetry Month

Nailbiters

Naked Poetry

No Circe

Nor Iron Bars

On the Road

The Open

Our Groundhog

Pensacola

Philosophy in Billy's Bar

Pickpockets

The Plains of Mars

Possibility

The Professor and the Librarian

The Queen Ant's Love Song

Revelation

Seven & Seven

She, Being an Artist

Short Meditation on Long-Suffering Poets

Sort of a Sonnet

The Teacher

Les Temps Modernes

Tough Professor Sonnet

The Uniform

Vincent

The Waltz

The Wave

The Witness

The Examiner's Death

The Young Poet Speaks

Zinc Fingers.

Notes:

Preliminaries omitted.

ISBN:

9780822979821

0822979829

OCLC:

606373761