Natural Causes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cox, Mark

Series:

Pitt Poetry Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--20th century.

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2004.

Summary:

Death haunts the pages of Natural Causes, but so does compassion and love. There is little darkness here, and less despair, despite the abundance of cemeteries, loss, and ghosts-both real and imagined. Mark Cox's youthful bravado has given way in these poems to an assured sense of understatement. The weight of fatherhood, the loss of a grandmother, the fear of loneliness-these are the details around which Cox plumbs the depths of mortality and memory. Fully comfortable with the domestic tableau from which he writes, this is a poet never complacent. The penchants for metaphor and the resonant turn of phrase that informed Cox's earlier work remain as vibrant as ever, indeed are heightened, as he masterfully affirms and celebrates the range of familial complexity and human connectedness.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

I. Ashes, Ashes

At the Stair

Pail of Eggs

Treasure

Pompeii

Odyssey

Better Homes and Gardens

The Museum of the End of the World

Inner Rooms

Red Lead, 1978

Consolidated Freight

Top Pay, Home Every Weekend

Joyland

Blind Cat at a Window

Parakeet

At the Crematorium, My Son Asks Why We're All Wearing Black

Til Death Do You Part: Second Ceremony

Willow Run

II. 7:30 Poems

Eastern Wyoming

Western Wyoming

Wound

Call to Prayer

On Your Coast

Image

Want

Well of Tragedy

His Green Chair

Norway

Bread Loaf, 1991

Pissing Off Robert Frost's Porch

After Reading Tu Fu,

Whittling

57th Street

Second Skin

III. Finish This

The Sublime

Finish This

Dark Black

This Bucket Has a Hole in It

After the Sea Parts, My Daughter Walks among Gravestones

Fatherhood

Sill

The Lion's Share

Natural Causes

On the Way to See You

Rest Darling Sister Rest

The White Doves of Topeka

After Rain

Ashes, Ashes

Acknowledgments.

Notes:

Preliminaries omitted.

ISBN:

9780822979906