In the Home of the Famous Dead : Collected Poems / Jo McDougall ; foreword by Carl Adamshick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McDougall, Jo, author.

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (469 p.)

Place of Publication:

Fayetteville, Arkansas : The University of Arkansas Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<div>Jo McDougall lives in Little Rock. She is the author of five books of poetry and the memoir Daddy's Money.</div>

Contents:

Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; From Women Who Marry Houses; On a Sunday Night in Hattiesburg; The Displaced; Alice B. Toklas and Moon: A Letter to Gertrude; The Woman in the Next Booth; Walking Down Prospect; Labor Day; The Black and Small Birds of Remorse; Silly Women; Settlement; Women Who Marry Houses; Act; The 875; A Lady Charged with Involuntary Manslaughter Says; Men; The Bessemer; Harlot Hag Dry Harpy; The Professor of Chinese Dialects in a Small University Town in Ohio; Something, Anything; Reporting Back

One Mile Out of New SmyrnaAt the Vietnam War Memorial for the American Dead; The Bluebird Café; Before the Doctor Says What He Has to Say; In the Visitors' Room; The Voice of the Radio Announcer; Works; The Menial; Things That Will Keep; Winter Room; To a Man in Kansas; Coming Back, I Visit Myself; Watching; Next Door; For T.; The Paper Xylophone; The Tractor Driver's Funeral; A Woman Married to Grief; Remembering a Sunny Climate; Emerson County Shaping Dream; Audiences; Becoming Invisible; The House Facing Dahlia; The Day After the Bottomlands Farmer Lost His Wife

Stopping My Car for the LightBetween the Wars; After Seeing a Movie about the American Bombing of Cambodia; After the Quarrel; A Farm Wife Laments Her Husband's Absence; The Other Side; Hearing Tractors; When the Buck or Two Steakhouse Changed Hands; 1942; A Girl in a Sundress; Dancing Man; The Privileged; Progress; The Gift; Towns Facing Railroads; A Friendly Town; Burying My Mother; A Veteran of the War Speaks of the Enemy; Snow Comes to Pittsburg, Kansas; Edge of America; Small Town at Dusk; A Stand of Pines; Farm Wife; How We Live; In the Coffee Shops; The Dress; Farewell, Dusky Seaside

Item, Page ThreeThe Visiting Assistant Professor on the First Day Addresses Another Class in Yet Another Town; I'll Be Seeing you; At the Marriott; On Catalpa Street; Buying a House; Homeplace; Driving Kansas; Rooms; Working Late in My Studio on the Second Story; Neighborhood; Dead Child; Most of the Time; A Bottomlands Farmer Suffers a Sea Change; Fields; Four PM.; Marbles; His Funeral; Surviving in Kansas; Story; Talking with You Long Distance; Packing; The Day; Children's Children; Once in Winter; The Stump; In the Home of the Famous Dead; Her Last Trick; The First Warm Day; Remodeling

Growing Up on the Bayou de GlaisesSalesman; Humanities 113; A Woman of Substance; Catalpa; Blessing; Upon Hearing about the Suicide of the Daughter of Friends; To Her; Night Flight, Delta #481; They Agree to Call It Off but Then; Dropping a Line; From Darkening Porches; What Happens When We Leave; Nights and Days; She Reflects upon a Sadness; Circus; A Bottomlands Farmer Deals with the Arkansas Power and Light Transmission Towers Set in His Field; Radio; Eight Years a Ghost; The Time of Their Lives; The Crib at Buffalo Antiques; Spinsters; The Duplex; A Southerner in Kansas Recalls Trees

Just Off the Highway

Notes:

LC copy signed by author.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781610755603

161075560X

OCLC:

908100686