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Field of light and shadow : selected and new poems / David Young.
Van Pelt Library PS3575.O78 F54 2023
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Young, David, 1936- author.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 309 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- Expanded edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2023]
- Summary:
- "A gorgeous selection of the humane and moving poetry of David Young, a celebrated poet of the Midwestern landscape and the people who live in it with an expanded section featuring sixteen new poems exclusive to the paperback edition. A newly expanded career-spanning volume from one of our most valuable living American poets, offering poems that display an exquisite ear tuned to the natural world, to love and friendship, and to the continually renewable possibilities of language and new poems that reflect a continued artistic interest in these subjects."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: From Sweating Out the Winter
- Late Summer: Lake Erie
- The Man Who Swallowed a Bird
- More About Skills
- Segal
- Poem About Hopping
- Two Renewal Poems
- Nineteen Sixty-Three
- From Boxcars
- The Boxcar Poem
- Three for the Moon
- Homing
- In Heaven
- Mandelstam
- Thoughts of Chairman Mao
- Ohio
- Love Song
- Chromos
- A Calendar: The Beautiful Names of the Months
- Teddy Roosevelt
- Woodrow Wilson
- From Water Diary
- From Work Lights: Thirty-Two Prose Poems
- The Poem Against the Horizon
- Four About the Letter P
- Four About Heavy Machinery
- Four About Metaphysics
- Four About Mummies
- Kohoutek
- From The Names of a Hare in English
- Two Views of the Cathedral
- Nineteen Forty-Four
- "Other Forms Were Near": Five Words
- How Music Began
- Three Time-Trips
- One Who Came Back
- The Day Nabokov Died
- Occupational Hazards
- The Picture Says
- Jaywalker
- Tool Talk
- After My Death
- A Lowercase Alphabet
- The Fool's Tale
- From Foraging
- In My Own Back Yard
- A Ghost, to One Alive
- Mesa Verde
- October Couplets
- Basho
- Six Ghosts
- The Self: A Sonnet Sequence
- Hunting for Mushrooms in Orange County
- Elegy in the Form of an Invitation
- Vermont Summer: Three Snapshots, One Letter
- Three Walks
- From Earthshine
- The Moon-Globe
- Nine Deaths
- From Poem in Three Parts
- The Portable Earth-Lamp
- From The Planet on the Desk
- Visionary's Ghazal
- Root Vegetable Ghazal
- Easter Ghazal
- Bird Ghazal
- Hamlet Ghazal
- Worship Ghazal
- From Night Thoughts and Henry Vaughan
- Henry Vaughan
- From Night Thoughts
- Midnight...
- One a.m....
- Two a.m....
- Four a.m....
- Five a.m....
- From At the White Window
- Poem for Adlai Stevenson and Yellow Jackets
- Wind, Rain, Light
- Lessons in Metaphysics
- My Mother at Eighty-Eight
- Landscape with Grief Train
- My Father at Ninety-Four
- Landscape with Wolves
- Landscape with Bees
- Chopping Garlic
- Dinner Time
- That Spring
- At the White Window
- The Snow Bird
- Midwestern Families
- Phenomenology for Dummies
- Four Songs on a Bone Flute
- Lullaby for the Elderly
- The House Was Quiet on a Winter Afternoon
- From Black Lab
- Walking Around Retired in Ohio
- Black Labrador
- January 3, 2003
- Putting My Father's Ashes in the Cemetery at Springville, Iowa
- At the Little Bighorn
- Christmas: Ohio and Capolungo
- Eating a Red Haven Peach in the Middle of August in Ohio
- Dawn on the Winter Solstice
- Faux Pas
- Sally and the Sun
- Blake's "Dante and Virgil Penetrating the Forest" (1824)
- Late Celan Variations
- February 1, 2003
- Walking Home on an Early Spring Evening
- I Wear My Father
- Chloe in Late January
- The Secret Life of Light
- The Dream of the Moving Statue
- Yoshitoshi
- March 10, 2001
- Swithin
- The Hour of Blue Snow
- New Poems (2010)
- Why I Translate
- The Merry-Go-Round
- Mother's Day
- Quick Takes
- One Hundred Billion Neurons in My Brain
- Occasional Sonnets
- Reasons for Living
- Poem at Seventy
- Graveyard
- New Poems II (2022)
- Quantum Haiku
- Her Voice Has Vanished
- Pacing Around in the Memory Palace
- Reading Old Letters on a Rainy Morning
- Watching My Grandson Play Mamillius in The Winter's Tale
- Heidelberg Beach, October
- Value and Reverie
- August Notes
- Herman Melville Feeding His Chickens
- Paul Celan by Starlight
- Baudelaire, The Cats
- January 28
- Since Galileo Started Something
- "Edge, Rim, Frontier, Limit".
- Other Format:
- Online version: Young, David, 1936- Field of light and shadow
- ISBN:
- 9781524712334
- 1524712337
- OCLC:
- 1317750468
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