Changeable thunder : poems / by David Baker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baker, David, 1954- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry--20th century.

English poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 97 pages)

Place of Publication:

Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 2001.

Summary:

Changeable Thunder marks David Baker's emergence as a major contemporary poet. To his abiding sense of the Midwest-its politics, people, and landscapes-Baker adds a powerful historical dimension, with poems ranging from Puritan New England to the modern subway. Of particular note are poems on the works of other writers, as he reanimates Shelley's letters, Samuel Sewall's diaries, and Walt Whitman's novel. With brilliant technique, dazzling formal variety, and moving intimacy, Baker's poems explore personal illness, erotic and familial passion, artistic creation, and the constant work and changing weather of one man's life.

Contents:

Benton's clouds

Pulp fiction

Forced bloom

Romanticism

Trees beside water

Preparatory meditation

The rainbow

After rain

Cold water

Postmodernism

Début de siècle

Dejection

Separation

"Fade-out" : a lover's discourse

Simonides' stone

To winter

The city of God

The puritan way of death

Unconditional election

Midwest : ode

That moon

Midwest : Georgics

Works and days

Mr. Whitman's book

Humble house

Ohio fields after rain

Two clouds.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781610750929

1610750926