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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821846303321

Autore

Butts Anthony

Titolo

The golden underground : poems / / by Anthony Butts

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Detroit, : Wayne State University Press, c2009

ISBN

0-8143-3546-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (57 p.)

Collana

African American life series

Disciplina

811/.54

Soggetti

Myth

American poetry - African American authors

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Contents -- THE SAINT BRIGID PSALMS -- Before Autumn -- Song of Starry-Eyed Children -- Intercession to Saint Brigid -- Mist and Fog -- Song of Earth and Sky -- The Landscape for Growth -- Eight Modes toward Desire -- Thin Places -- Ice Palaces -- PYGMALION -- The Memory of Light -- Soldiers -- Fretwork -- Voices' End -- Embers -- Far from Home -- Wise and Innocent -- The Distance from Here to There -- Brussels Sprouts -- Crystalline -- All Saints' Day -- All Souls' Day -- Lessons in Nostalgia -- Enigmatic -- Apogee -- Triptych -- Acknowledgments.

Sommario/riassunto

New from accomplished poet Anthony Butts, a collection of modern free verse with an attention to formal syntax and a keen religious sensibility.