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1 online resource (94 pages). |
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The Iowa poetry prize
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Iowa poetry prize.
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| Summary |
John Wood is well known for his brilliant writing on the history of photography, but for many years he has also centered on his work as a poet, publishing in some of the very best magazines and gaining the deep admiration of many writers and poets. This book is testimony of his devotion to his craft - a fully realized, mature, and carefully constructed collection. |
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Bitter part of heaven -- Perils of beauty -- Comeback of Yma Sumac -- Cancer talkers -- Upon reading in the newspaper that a man in Kentucky had cut off his hand and his foot with pocketknives and then gouged out an eye in order that he might go to heaven -- On a photograph I found of two young factory workers standing beside a piece of heavy machinery and inscribed on the reverse "sacred to the memory of friendship" -- Correct answers -- Canticle of end-times -- Kali yuga -- Wastes of resurrection -- Opie and the apples -- Jam -- How I tried to explain the certainties of faith and Petrunkevitch's famous essay on the wasp and the tarantula to a pentecostal student worried about my soul -- About their father's business -- Expulsions -- Baptisms -- Conversions -- Theological meditation -- Silage -- Shitheads -- Reflections on the progress of the western intellectual tradition from Thales to Crick and Watson -- Hunting for a new chairman; thinking about Giotto. |
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Locomotion and starlight -- Dreams of standing -- Myths of meanness -- Bees -- Remembering my father riding -- Elegiac stanza on a photograph of Ethel Rosenberg in her kitchen -- Elegy -- Elegy in September -- Elegiac ode -- Babies on the beach -- Flowers for Robert Mapplethorpe -- Mysteries: elegy at century's close -- For a friend whose son committed suicide -- Thinking of Maria Theresa Broussard, a pregnant girl in my freshman class my first semester in Louisiana -- Seeing a girl who looked like a well-known child actress walking toward san tome, the church in Toledo where el Greco's Burial of the count of orgaz hangs -- Here in Louisiana -- Surrounding grace -- A crown of promise -- In primary light -- Self-portrait after Stanley Spencer. |
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American poetry.
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American poetry. |
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American poetry -- 20th century.
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20th century |
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American poetry.
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Electronic books.
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Poetry.
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Poetry.
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Print version: Wood, John, 1947 January 2- In primary light. Iowa City, IA : University of Iowa Press, ©1994 0877454507 (DLC) 93046325 (OCoLC)29564751 |
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158729253X (electronic book) |
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9781587292538 (electronic book) |
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0877454507 (paper ; acid free paper) |
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9780877454502 (paper ; acid free paper) |
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