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Old rags and iron : new and selected poems / R.F. McEwen ; Introduction by Ted Kooser.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McEwen, Robert F., author.
- Series:
- Ted Kooser contemporary poetry.
- Ted Kooser Contemporary Poetry Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Narrative poetry, American.
- Genre:
- Narrative poetry.
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (140 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln, Nebraska : University of Nebraska Press, [2025]
- Summary:
- Using tree-trimming as one of several central metaphors, Old Rags and Iron is a collection of narrative poems about the life experiences of working-class people.
- Contents:
- Cover Page
- Ted Kooser Contemporary Poetry
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- "Old Rags and Iron" &
- Other Narratives
- Old Rags and Iron
- Cotton Bishop's Good Sleep
- A Round on Jackson's Trace
- A Strong Wind Clear and Keen
- Ash Hollow
- Bill Richard's Boy
- Hammer Ring
- John Hanks's Blue Hound
- Fragment from a Larger Poem
- Crossing
- Dad's Way
- Dust to Dust
- High Hawk: Eugene Pierce, His Passing (1998-2017)
- In the Pines
- Incident at the Bus Stop
- Kadokah
- Lion's Head: Cass County, Nebraska, 1953
- Lost Tracks at Sorley's Creek
- Moody Boatright's "Dead Dad Ditty"
- Nick's Night
- On the Wing
- Parrot Pal
- Second Shift at Tilden Steel
- Snow Man
- Spelling Wilson James: Blue Island, Illinois, 1967
- The Honcho River and Its Run
- The Wind Along the Crest
- Well-Found at Neilly's Creek
- The Rising of Rock Fowler Creek
- George Corchran's Later Blow
- Tree Trimmer's Paradise
- To Jim D. Manning, Tree, Man: Who Died in His Tree, June 1983
- Late October-Richardson and Early Storms
- Bill Ward's Winter Break
- Absent Crew
- John Early Poems
- Their Last Lad's Fishing
- Early Rising
- John Early Remembers the Moment of His Wife's Death
- Sonnet for the Lost and Found
- On Looking Back
- John Early Wonders, Waiting Dawn
- White River Poems
- Tracks Don't Lie
- Panaderia
- The Lessoning
- Buried Deep at Fast Horse Creek
- Aunt Rose in Great Demand
- Lean Jack MacBride: A Fragment
- From Prairie Schooner, 1991-2005
- Tuckered In, Tuckered Out
- Wings
- Snow Gazer
- Quare Garden at the Dry End of the State
- Gill Bronsen's Dream
- Irish Poems
- Back to Old Mhaigh Eo
- The Far Side of Red Bay
- Small Favors
- For Agnes Maddy Conlin (1892-1953): On the Occasion of Her Funeral.
- Her Way with Words, with Life: Aileen O'Lyne (1993-2018)
- Double Shift.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781496242495
- 1496242491
- 9781496242488
- 1496242483
- OCLC:
- 1500765650
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