American ghost roses : poems /
In his first book as the poet laureate of Illinois, Kevin Stein shoulders an array of poetic forms, blending pathos, humor, and social commentary. These poems--ranging from meditative narratives to improvisational lyrics--explore art's capacity to embody as well as express contemporary culture....
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
[2005]
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Full text (MFA users only) |
| ISBN: | 9780252092565 0252092562 128360910X 9781283609104 9780252072406 0252072405 9786613921550 6613921556 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- One
- Wishful Rhetoric
- Two
- To the Reader Awakened by a Noisy Furnace
- An American Tale of Sex and Death
- Reintroductions
- Adolescent Hemlock
- In the House of Being
- The Cost
- Revelation in Pinks and Red
- Superstitious Manna
- Kandinsky's Concerning the Spiritual in Art
- Windfall
- Upon Witnessing My Mother Impossibly Blossom above My Father's Deathbed
- Three
- Love Poem with Knife and Last Cut Zinnia
- Sappho's Fragment 63
- Instructor's Comments on the Poem Eden Sleeping, Circa 1975How He Answered the Glossy Magazine's Mate-Poaching Survey
- Upon Blowing Our Chance to Meet the Poet Laureate, Who's Probably a Nice Guy
- Etiquette and Epiphany in the Post-Workshop Men's Room
- The Other One
- To Bob Marley's Toe
- Ghosts
- To Bananas
- Reliquary
- Four
- Thinking of Kandinsky while Shaving My Father
- Theory & Practice
- Valentine's Day Boxing at the Madison County Jail
- Found in a Shoe Box Labeled Keep
- In the Nuclear Age
- Upon Freeing the Ruby-Throated Hummingbird Beak-Stuck in a Screen DoorTo Wheelbarrows
- While Writing This Poem, My Horse Jumped the Pasture Fence
- These Gifts
- Won't You Stand Next to My Fire
- Tract