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Americana and Other Poems.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Updike, John
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--20th century.
- American poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- John Updike's first collection of verse since his Collected Poems, 1953-1993 brings together fifty-eight poems, three of them of considerable length.The four sections take up, in order: America, its cities and airplanes; the poet's life, his childhood, birthdays, and ailments; foreign travel, to Europe and the tropics; and, beginning.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Acknowledgments
- Epigraph
- Dedication
- Contents
- I
- Americana
- Island Cities
- Phoenix
- Atlanta-Dallas/Fort Worth, 11:10 P.M.
- On the Road
- Bad Night in New York State
- The Overhead Rack
- Icarus
- Corpus Christi
- New Orleans
- Corinth, MS
- Reading, PA
- Near Clifton, Perhaps
- New York City
- Flight to Limbo
- II
- Before the Mirror
- The Hedge
- In the Cemetery High Above Shillington
- 61 and Some
- Vero Beach Birthday
- Upon Becoming a Senior Citizen
- A Wound Posthumously Inflicted
- On the Nearly Simultaneous Deaths of Harold Brodkey and Joseph Brodsky
- One Tough Keratosis
- Ocular Hypertension
- To Two of My Characters
- Reality
- Downtime
- III
- To a Skylark
- Marine Hotel, North Berwick, Scotland, May 1998
- Prague, Again
- The Witnesses
- Piet
- Beauvais
- Two Cunts in Paris
- Death in Venice
- Orvieto
- Jacopo Pontormo
- Venetian Candy
- Hiroshima, 2000
- At the Miho Museum
- Shinto
- A Brazilian Valentine
- Pura Vida
- Subtropical Night
- Boca Grande Sunset
- IV
- Song of Myself
- December Sun
- A Rescue
- Replacing Sash Cords
- Radiators
- Slum Lords
- Money
- Bridge
- Transparent Stratagems
- Montes Veneris
- Rainbow
- Chicory
- Jesus and Elvis
- Religious Consolation
- Saying Goodbye to Very Young Children
- A Sound Heard Early on the Morning of Christ's Nativity
- A Note About the Author
- Books by John Updike.
- Notes:
- Preliminaries omitted.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-307-51253-3
- 1-299-01273-6
- OCLC:
- 843026896
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