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1 online resource (xi, 135 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Winnowed from a distinguished career, then distilled, then polished and winnowed again, the poems in You Are Here are Leon Stokesbury's most successful and finished from fifty year's of published work. The selections from his earlier volumes are as fully realized as one would expect from the winner of the AWP Poetry Competition and the Poets' Prize. But it is in Stokesbury's new work, collected under the heading "These Days," that he shows us something completely different. From a county carnival sideshow to Hitchcock's Mount Rushmore, from John Keats's backyard to the miseries of a failed crematorium operator, every turning of a page reveals a particular we didn't see coming. You Are Here truly seems like a sideshow of this modern world, even when we read and find, amazed, our own selves looking back at us. "Why do we still only stand here?" Stokesbury asks in one of his earliest efforts. And all the other poems in this collection give him such varied answers that readers will have no idea what the next page holds, only that they will find themselves somewhere new. |
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Acknowledgments; I. These Days; Nemerov's "A Primer of the Daily Round" Held as a Mirror up to Nature; The Day Kennedy Died; My Wife's Camera Bag and the Fuji Camera Card Inside It; Change; Variations on a Theme by Ammons and Li Po; Listening to My Mother's Comic Banter with Sackboys and Servers; Into the Furthest Regions; Staple Song; Prelapsarian Dog Days on Lindell Avenue: 1972; That Time of Year; Midway; The Composition of "The Eve of St. Agnes" Followed in Late April by "La Belle Dame Sans Merci"; Room with a View; Roger O. Thornhill on Mount Rushmore. |
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Colonel Kilgore's ComplaintThe Gold Rush; 8 1D ; You Are Here; The Point Envenom'd Too!; Watching My Mother Take Her Last Breath; Burnt Bridges; Legacy; Georgia Gothic; To a Nightingale; These Days; Even Now; II. Autumn Rhythm (1996); Evening's End; The Garden Path; The Royal Nonesuch; Bottom's Dream; Reynaldo in Paris; Jaques Lured by Audrey; An Inkling; Fall; I Greet You; Morte d'Arthur; Kitty Litter; Homework; Pro Quo; Dark Blurb of the Soul; Señor Wences and the Man in the Box; III. The Drifting Away (1986); If I Could Open You; Unsent Message to My Brother in His Pain; Chance of Showers. |
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Day Begins at Governor's Square MallThe Luncheon of the Boating Party; Morning Song; The Lover Remembereth Such as He Sometime Enjoyed and Showeth How He Would Like to Enjoy Her Again; Adventures in Sepia; Semi-Sentimental Thank You Note Sent over a Long Distance; A Skeptical View of the Tarot; A Funny Joke; The Party's End; IV. Often in Different Landscapes (1976); To Laura Phelan: 1880-1906; What the New Chef Said; California; The Murder of Gonzago and His Friends; Often in Different Landscapes; Little Keats Soliloquy; The Lamar Tech Football Team Has Won Its Game; East Texas. |
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To All Those Considering Coming to FayettevilleSummer in Fairbanks; The North Slope; The Polar Bear; But Once in Special; Gifts; Religious Poem; This Other; To His Book. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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United States -- Social life and customs -- Poetry.
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United States. |
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Manners and customs. |
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Poetry.
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FICTION -- General. |
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POETRY -- American -- General. |
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Electronic books.
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Poetry.
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Poems. Selections
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Print version: Stokesbury, Leon. You Are Here : Poems New & Old. : University of Arkansas Press, ©2016 9781682260074 |
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9781610755924 (electronic book) |
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1610755928 (electronic book) |
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9781682260074 |
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