Reaching for Longer Water : New and Selected Poems / David M. Parsons.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Parsons, David M., 1943- author.

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (162 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Huntsville, Texas : Texas Review Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Award winning poetry critic Ange Mlinko wrote of Parsons and his work, "The Renaissance man was once a courtly ideal; Parsons shows that it is a democratic ideal too--warm-blooded, muscular, as companionable on the page as in the flesh." Both tangible and cerebral, Parsons's poetry lifts its readers into a new, transformational reality with a depth of insight that is truly exceptional. Reaching For Longer Wate r brings the reader, the most compelling of his poems from his previous four collections, poems hailed by poetry luminaries, Edward Hirsch, Stanley Plumly, Robert Phillips, and Paul Mariani. THE FRANK GAZE OF WOMEN After Baudelaire's "Exotic Scent" Yes, yes, they bestow delights-- not only in the seedy way we all know: they plant something in the littoral vacancy and in an instant there is an ineffable fire--that forging force on which so much more depends than wheelbarrows & chickens.

Contents:

Austin relativity

Night hawk

Street fighter

Green beer summer mornings 1964

Shirts vs skins

Rapids

Austin fire

The pride

Two dogs howling at the moon

Revenant old Austin songs

Integration 1964

Knuckle ball

Austin child

Austin child 2005

Lifeguard

Home

Fire

Feathering deep

Gust of wind

Evening after eating rainbows (caught on Mystic Lake)

Sound heard only at poetry readings

Still life

Wolf attack

Reading old heart

Blinds

Re-resurection

It's not about remembering

Among Renoir faces

Church going open sestina 2010

Frost critics

Portents of inscape

The back alley rabbit of Maida Vale

Falling

Whitman

Thumbnail: Eliot

Thumbnail: Pound

Thumbnail: Dickinson

Hills

Ghost hawk

View from the cliffs

Keys

The frank gaze of women

Orange County

Comforter

Sixties music

The marriage lost

Historic houses

Step daughter

The dancer

Second marriage

Fried green tomatoes

The vultures of summer vestibules

Evidence

The edit

Snapping in

Texian

The people

Canoeing

Clarity

Midnight Montana

Portland morning

Boscoe Pertwee and me

Archaic reflections on Blake's baptism

The etymology of sound

Discovering Soren Kierkegaard

Memories of Camp Mathews in Finnish rhapsody 1961

My hero cousin

The gift of time & sight

Sometimes the darkness

Puberty

Kindred

Handball

Good Friday

Peace

Kites

Losing sight

My previously owned son

I would give you the single strawberry

Color of mourning

They

Lake lady dancing on a hill

Inscaping the storm

Challenge court

Flying to my father

Speechless

Bridge weld

Roots

Discovery

Remembering Ashley Michelle

Spring suicide

Trail markers

Wheel well

Knowing

Sounding

Editing sky.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 146-148).

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-68003-033-7

OCLC:

928894534