The uses of adversity / Ronald Wallace.
| Author/creator | Wallace, Ronald |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, |
| Description | xii, 114 p. ; 19 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from ProQuest One Literature - U.S. Customers Only |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Twentieth-Century American Poetry |
| Series | Pitt poetry series |
| Contents | Where are they now? -- Howdy Doody -- Froggy the Gremlin -- War games -- The funnies -- The voyeur -- Weird tales -- The Tivoli -- Dogs (1) -- The killing jar -- 1960 -- Gin Lane -- Statutes of limitation -- Delayed reaction -- Temps perdu -- Milk toast -- Unto you a son -- 1958 -- The Friday night fights -- The uses of adversity (1) -- Needles -- The last resort -- Another think coming -- My father: a life -- Thanksgiving 1994 -- The uses of adversity (2) -- Doctor Death -- Safety first -- Crowned -- Coaching -- Fielding -- Hunting -- Tonight's lecture -- Rich -- Albert's osprey -- Osprey -- Swamp -- Feeding the Bananaquits: Maho Bay -- The bad snorkeler -- Seasick -- Metaphor as illness -- Going deaf -- Tomatoes -- Conspiracy theory -- Guilty -- Dogs (2) -- Accident -- In our parents' bed -- Old man jokes -- Alzheimer's -- At the Vietnamese restaurant -- Living with pain -- Bluebirds -- The faithful -- God's handiwork -- The American dream -- Broken sonnet -- Mr. Nice Guy -- To worry -- Decision making -- Mind & body -- The pen is mightier -- The aesthetics of beauty -- Breasts -- Panties -- Masculine endings -- Mermaids -- In the garden -- On time -- Hostage -- The student theme -- The bad sonnet -- L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E -- Les poétes célèbres -- The McPoem -- American sonnet -- Sonnet to my socks -- Sea changes -- Meteors -- Pomegranates -- Morning glories -- Come out -- The calling -- The cat and the night -- Life or death -- Golden gate -- Thin ice -- A mind of winter -- Waxworms -- The wish -- Skin -- The seahorse -- The reef -- Sharks' teeth -- Tropes -- An essay on love -- Cat in the snow -- The last sonnet -- Man sleeping. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 97033954 |
| ISBN | 0822940671 (acid-free paper) |
| ISBN | 0822956713 (pbk. : acid-free paper) |
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| Electronic Resources | ✔ Available |