Somewhere We'll Leave the World Russell Thorburn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thorburn, Russell.

Series:

Made in Michigan writers series.

Made in michigan writers series

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (pages cm)

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2017

Place of Publication:

Detroit, MI : Wayne State University Press, 2017.

Summary:

Poems suggesting that living on Earth takes a lot of practice.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

I

Tracking the Wolf

The Butcher

The TV Guide as the Book of Job

The River He Swims

Many Miles from Home

Union Soldier, after Abandoning His Battle, Forgets Everything Wading through the Shallows

Ovation: Apollinaire, His Arm a Tremor at the Blackboard

Bad Men and Dirt

Scars

Sunday Jazz

Sergeant Reese Embraces the Suicide Bomber

Sergeant Reese's Letter to a Father

Reese's Letter to a Son

Sergeant Reese Loves to Box Away His Pain

II

Garage Band

Lately My Resemblance to Captain Beefheart Has Been Disturbing

Detroit, on the Bus Headed Downtown, the Driver Is Listening to Chopin's Preludes

Without Work

The Chinese Restaurant

Love Allows Us to Walk in the Sweet Music of Our Particular Heart

Weekend

Mr. MacLaverty Has a Pit Bull Named Roscoe

Across the Street from His House, a Boy, the Oldest of Sixteen, at His Father's Grave

Garage Band Records at Magic City

The Mountains Didn't Know I Was Playing a Piano

John Lennon on the Beach in the Upper Peninsula

Robbie Robertson Decides to Hitchhike Back to Canada

On a Bus Headed East on US 2 in a Late-Night Blizzard Years Ago

III

Gravitational Field

The Blind Guitarist Whose Six Strings Can Only Play Him So Far

Drawing Elena

Movie House

American Killer

When One Tugs at a Single Thing in Nature, He Finds It Attached to the Rest of the World

Hollywood

Walt Whitman Wears a Huge Hat in the Noonday Heat

John Huston Talks to Clark Gable about His Next Scene as a Drunk Falling Off a Car Hood

Broken

Winter Road All Bone, Miles Past Kiva, US 41 Headed North

IV

Marmalade

Billy the Kid Smells Cinnamon in Texas after a Bad Night

Expecting Someone to Come Walking through the Snow, Say, Jim Harrison

The Fox Was Chased.

On a Bus Headed the Wrong Way in Watts

Richard Brautigan Wants to Walk Off the Cover of Trout Fishing in America

Dream House

At the Los Angeles Central Library

Electric Morning

Montgomery Clift Talks in That Slow, Rounded Way of Someone Desperately Drunk

Selective Service Decision to Defer Him after His Psychiatrist Wrote a Letter

When Lake Superior Remembers the North Sea

When I Was a Night Clerk Living with My Girlfriend at the Hotel

Your Table Peopled with Characters

Acknowledgments

Notes

About the Author.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780814342534

0814342531

OCLC:

1002011751