Sestets / Charles Wright.

Author/creator Wright, Charles, 1935-
Format Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoNew York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009.
Descriptionix, 75 pages ; 22 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Subjects

Contents Tomorrow -- The Gospel According to Somebody Else -- Future Tense -- Flannery's Angel -- Cowboy Up -- In Praise of What is Missing -- By the Waters of Babylon -- Hasta La Vista Buckaroo -- Double Salt -- Born Again II -- No Entry -- Celestial Waters -- Anniversary II -- Sunlight Bets on the Come -- "Well, Get Up, Rounder, Let a Working Man Lay Down" -- Consolation and the Order of the World -- Return of the Prodigal -- With Horace, Sitting on the Platform, Waiting for the Robert E. Lee -- The Song From the Other Side of the World -- The Gospel According to Yours Truly -- The Evening is Tranquil, and Dawn is a Thousand Miles Away -- Homage to What's-His-Name -- Tutti Frutti -- "This World is Not My Home, I'm Only Passing Through" -- Stiletto -- I shall be all be Released" -- Description's the Art of Something or Other -- "It's Sweet to be Remembered" -- Basin Creek Sundown -- In Memory of the Natural World -- Yellow Wings --Twilight of the Dogs -- Remembering Bergamo Alto -- With Alighieri on Basin Creek -- Walking Beside the Diversion Ditch Lake -- Next -- The Ghost of Walter Benjamin Walks at Midnight -- Bees are the Terrace Builders of the Stars -- Timetable -- When the Horses Gallop Away From Us, It's a Good Thing -- Autumn is Visionary, Summer's the Same Old Stuff --
Contents Bitter Herbs to Eat, and Dipped in Honey -- No Angel -- Basin Creek Lullaby -- Time is a Graceless Enemy, But Purls as it Comes and Goes -- The Great Blue Heron and the Tree of Night -- Terrestrial Music -- Before the Propane Lamps Come On, The World is a Risk and Wonder -- Autumn Thoughts on the East Fork -- Little Meditation Above the Meadow -- On the Night of the First Snow, Thinking About Tennessee -- Our Days are Political, But Birds are Something Else -- We hope that Love Calls Us, But Sometimes We're Not So Sure -- Only the I-Ching Hexagrams are Lacking -- Time is a Dark Clock, But it Still Strikes from Time to Time -- Like the New Moon, My Mother Drifts Through the Night Sky -- As the Train Rolls Through, I Remember an Old Poem -- April Evening -- As a Pine Tree by the Waters -- The Book -- Sundown Blues -- "On the Trail of the Lonesome Pine" -- Music for Midsummer's Eve -- No Direction Home -- Hovercraft -- Time is a Child-Biting Dog -- Nothing is Written -- Little Ending.
General notePoems.
LCCN 2008033990
ISBN9780374261153 (alk. paper)
ISBN0374261156 (alk. paper)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks PS3573.R52 S47 2009 ✔ Available Place Hold