A childhood in the Milky Way : becoming a poet in Ohio / David Brendan Hopes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hopes, David B., author.

Series:

Ohio history and culture.

Ohio History and Culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hopes, David B--Childhood and youth.

Hopes, David B.

Hopes, David B--Homes and haunts--Ohio--Akron.

Poets, American--Homes and haunts--Ohio--Akron.

Poets, American.

Poets, American--20th century--Biography.

Akron (Ohio)--Social life and customs.

Akron (Ohio).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (110 pages).

Place of Publication:

Akron, Ohio : The University of Akron Press, 1999.

Summary:

How does a young boy discover his vocation as a poet in what is seemingly the least poetical of environments, the industrial Midwest of the 1950s and 1960s? By turns comic and dramatic, at once down to earth and otherworldly in its homegrown mysticism, A Childhood in the Milky Way answers that question, lighting up a special boyhood in one small corner of the galaxy. Part memoir, part meditation on what it means to be a poet in America at the end of the millennium, this book follows the early life of David Brendan Hopes in Akron, Ohio, where the going was sometimes rough and the people rougher, though they could also be fanciful, naive, driven by inarticulate desire, and, on occasion, haunted by the voices of angels and bards. In his growing up, the author found in the mysteries of childhood a way to enter the mysteries of religious and artistic vision.

Contents:

Intro

Halftitle Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Contents

Preface

1. Founders

2. Fire and Ice

3. The Queen of the Cowgirls

4. The Tongue

5. Among Warriors

6. Motherland

7. Lace Curtains and a Portable Education

8. The Descant Girls

9. The Serpent and the Grove

10. Ghostly Sister, Phantom Brother

11. The Oasis of the Trinity

12. The Tree of Lights

13. In My Father's House

14. Ground Bass

15. Getting Down

16. Roosevelt Ditch

17. The Wall Between the Worlds.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-937378-78-0

OCLC:

868279244