Uproar: Antiphonies To Psalms : Poems By Brook Haxton

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Haxton, Brooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religious poetry, American.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2004.

Summary:

In this book of homemade psalms, Brooks Haxton brings the poetry of the original psalmists, their awe and their music, into our world of jet planes and space travel, automatic rifles and suburban pleasures.

Contents:

Intro

Other Books By This Author

Title Page

Dedication

Contents

Preface: Lying about God

A Note on Sources

Chapter 1 - SUBMERSIBLE

Chapter 2 - I AM

Chapter 3 - APOLLO 12

Chapter 4 - THY NAME

Chapter 5 - WEDDING SONG

Chapter 6 - TIME MAY STAY

Chapter 7 - UNCLEAN

Chapter 8 - DARK

Chapter 9 - I WOKE UP AND IT WAS TIME

Chapter 10 - EVERY DEATH IS MAGIC FROM THE ENEMY TO BE AVENGED

Chapter 11 - 1985

Chapter 12 - KINGLINESS

Chapter 13 - PRAISE YE HIM

Chapter 14 - DIALECTIC

Chapter 15 - PAN, TRACK ZOOM

Chapter 16 - WITHOUT A WORD

Chapter 17 - LESSON FOR PIANOFORTE: THE BRAIN TUMOR

Chapter 18 - THE FREEDOM OF THE BODYSURFER

Chapter 19 - OLEH LYSHEHA RECEIVES HIS PRIZE

Chapter 20 - THE PASSION OF COLIC

Chapter 21 - I WANT TO PRAY

Chapter 22 - MONSTER MINDED

Chapter 23 - THREE LILIES

Chapter 24 - ON SECOND THOUGHT

Chapter 25 - OPPOSITIONAL

Chapter 26 - THE SUICIDE OF FRANCESCO BORROMINI

Chapter 27 - I FORGOT

Chapter 28 - SNOWFALL CHILDREN AT THEIR WINDOW

Chapter 29 - WHAT SHE THINKS OF HOW I DRESS

Chapter 30 - JADWIGA

Chapter 31 - MISERERE

Chapter 32 - ROTGUT

Chapter 33 - BEWILDERED

Chapter 34 - HOLINESS

Chapter 35 - SCHIZOPHRENIC

Chapter 36 - MAKERS

Chapter 37 - GOD'S WORLD, 1927

Chapter 38 - REDHEAD

Chapter 39 - JUSTICE

Chapter 40 - INMATES

Chapter 41 - SEAMLESS

Chapter 42 - AUGHT-ONE: LEONIDS, PREDAWN

Chapter 43 - FIRST TOUCH

Chapter 44 - METHINKS IT, ERGO EST

Chapter 45 - HOOKAH OF BLOWN GLASS

Chapter 46 - HIERARCHIES FOR THE PRAISE OF GOD

Chapter 47 - FISTS I THOUGHT WERE MADE TO HOLD THE REINS

Chapter 48 - SACKCLOTH

Chapter 49 - AT THE BLACK HOLE WHERE THE SALMON RIVER REELS AND PLUNGES WEST

Chapter 50 - AMOR FATI

Chapter 51 - PSALM 133, QUOTED IN FULL.

Chapter 52 - GLOSS

Chapter 53 - OF THE NUMBER LIVING

Chapter 54 - FLOOD WITH GAR, 1973

Chapter 55 - OATH

Chapter 56 - MEDLEY

Chapter 57 - ONE TEAR

Chapter 58 - COMMUTER FLIGHT

Chapter 59 - DEAF

Chapter 60 - I LOVE TO SEE GOD

Chapter 61 - SCROLLS

Chapter 62 - IN THIS LIFE WE WAIT

Chapter 63 - MISSAL

Notes

Acknowledgments

A Note About the Author

Copyright.

Notes:

Preliminaries omitted.

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ISBN:

0-307-54862-7

OCLC:

842915169