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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785890103321

Autore

Stein Kevin <1954->

Titolo

American ghost roses [[electronic resource] ] : poems / / by Kevin Stein

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, c2005

ISBN

1-283-60910-X

9786613921550

0-252-09256-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (105 p.)

Collana

Illinois poetry series

Disciplina

811.54

Soggetti

Poetry

American poetry

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

""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 1975""""How 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 Door""""To Wheelbarrows""; ""While Writing This Poem, My Horse Jumped the Pasture Fence""; ""These Gifts""; ""Won't You Stand Next to My Fire""; ""Tract""