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The king's touch : poems / Tom Sleigh.
Van Pelt Library PS3569.L36 K56 2022
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sleigh, Tom, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--21st century.
- American poetry.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 116 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2022]
- Summary:
- "Tom Sleigh's poems are skeptical of the inevitability of our fate, but in this brilliant new collection, they are charged with a powerful sense of premonition, as if the future is unfolding before us, demanding something greater than the self. Justice is a prevailing force, even while the poems are fully cognizant of the refugee crisis, war, famine, and the brutal reality of a crowded hospital morgue."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: I. Youth
- In Which a Spider Weaves a Web on My Computer Screen
- refugee
- Not-Her
- Bernini's David zs, a Young Man with a Slingstone and an Electronics Repair Shop
- Confession
- Up the Hill
- Reading
- A Dictator Walks into a Bar
- Fly
- II. Dream of a Song Woven from the Veil
- Dead Me, Live Me
- Migration
- False Teeth
- Black Dog, White Dog
- Words from Chernobyl
- After a Sentence in a Letter from Pasternak to Rilke, 1926
- Practice Range
- Homage to Vallejo's "Hymn to the Volunteers of the Republic"
- Another Disgrace
- Twilight in the Future
- Dream Dreamed a Millennium Too Late
- What I Can Say in 2021 about a Famine in 2011
- Clearance
- Last Cigarette
- Apology to My Daughter
- III. Breaker
- Ostrich
- At Yeats's Tower
- Queen for a Day
- Stethoscope
- The Unified Field
- A Toast to Pavlov's Dogs
- The Judgment after the Last
- Mission
- Sunday Is Never the Last Day of the Week Last Rites
- The Hunger Artist as a Senior Citizen
- A Man Plays Debussy for a Blind, Eighty-Four-Year-Old Female Elephant
- My Mother as the Eyes of a Whale on Her Ninety-Second Birthday
- Conversation
- For My Mother's Ninety-Sixth Birthday
- IV. The King's Touch
- Little Testament
- The King's Evil
- Age of Wonder.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1644450771
- 9781644450772
- OCLC:
- 1246141240
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