Long For This World: New and Selected Poems.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wallace, Ronald.

Series:

Pitt 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, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Long for This World features the best of Ronald Wallace's work from his previous collections of poetry- Plums, Stones, Kisses & Hooks (1981), Tunes for Bears to Dance To (1983), People and Dog in the Sun (1987), The Makings of Happiness (1991), Time's Fancy (1994), and The Uses of Adversity (1998)-along with a generous selection of twenty-six new poems. If Wallace's recent poems sometimes seem darker and deeper, more meditative and complex, less sanguine about the tragedies of daily life, they never sacrifice the comic sense, the synthesis of technical skill and strong emotion, and the sensory immediacy that have become his hallmarks.

Contents:

@from Plums, Stones, Kisses & Hooks (1981)

Installing the Bees

Oranges

One Hook

After Being Paralyzed from the Neck Down for Twenty Years, Mr. Wallace Gets a Chin-Operated Motorized Wheelchair

Prayer for Flowers

Trout

@from Tunes for Bears to Dance To (1983)

Grandmother Grace

The Belly Dancer in the Nursing Home

The Assistant Professor's Nightmare

A Hot Property

"You Can't Write a Poem about McDonald's"

Picture of Molly, Age 4

1001 Nights

The Facts of Life

@from People and Dog in the Sun (1987)

The Nude Gardener

This Night

At Chet's Feed & Seed

Poem Written Mostly by Fourth Graders

Matheny

Nightline: An Interview with the General

People and Dog in the Sun

@from The Making of Happiness (1991)

Early Brass

Bluegills

Fresh Oysters & Beer

Off the Record

Fan Mail

The Hell Mural: Panel I

Building an Outhouse

In the Amish Bakery

The Fat of the Land

@from Time's Fancy (1994)

The Life Next at Hand

Why I Am Not a Nudist

A Valentine

The Story

The Swing

Hardware

Pantoum: The Sturdy of Worry

Why God Permits Evil

Ballade of the Humpback Whales

Teachers: A Primer

In the Cards

Grandfather, His Book

@from The Uses of Adversity (1998)

The Friday Night Fights

Fielding

Tonight's Lecture: The Effects of Head Wounds on Foot Soldiers, A Case Study

Panties

The Bad Sonnet

L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E

Les poetes celebres

The McPoem

Waxworms

Skin

An Essay on Love.

Notes:

Preliminaries omitted.

ISBN:

9780822979982

0822979985

OCLC:

891385558