Next door to the dead : poems / Kathleen Driskell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Driskell, Kathleen Mason, author.

Series:

Kentucky Voices

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (103 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

When Kathleen Driskell tells her husband that she's gone to visit the neighbors, she means something different than most. The noted poet -- whose last book, Seed across Snow, was twice listed as a national bestseller by the Poetry Foundation -- lives in an old country church just outside Louisville, Kentucky. Next door is an old graveyard that she was told had fallen out of use. In this marvelous new collection, this turns out not to be the case as the poet's fascination with the ""neighbors"" brings the burial ground back to life.Driskell frequently strolls the cemetery grounds, imagining th

Contents:

Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Ars Poetica; Part 1; In Praise; Living Next to the Dead Acre; Funeral, in February; The Mower; Child's Poem for Sgt. Horace Mitchell Jr., 1946-1968; Consolation; Art Poetica; Mounds; What Haunts; Epitaph; Infant Daughter, Marcus, 2 years old, Myra 8 Days; Markers; Part 2; Epitaph; Next Door to the Dead; Pathetic Fallacy; Lament for the Crow; Just Off Shore, the Shadows Move; The Egyptologist Speaks from the Grave; Inishmor, Aran Islands; Tchaenhotep; Love Poetry; Epitaph; Night

Death of the Civil War Infantryman, Mill Springs, KentuckyPart 3; The Death of the Snake Handler; Epitaph; Cemetery Irony; At Harland Sanders's Grave; Too Late; Border State; Epitaph; At the Grave of the Girl Slave; Epitaph; Infant Girl Smithfield; Just As; From the Grave of the Mathematician; Mt. Zion, 1918; Part 4; On a Walk; Clearcut; Shunned; One Side of the Double Marker Left Unengraved; Epitaph; Epitaph; Not Done Yet; Epitaph; Unused Grave; When the Dog Went Blind; Empty Grave; Up and Against the Sky; Flock; Acknowledgments; Index of First Lines; Series page

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBook Central, viewed March 14, 2025).

Includes index.

ISBN:

9780813165745

0813165741

OCLC:

911665839