03826nam 2200601 450 991046492180332120200520144314.00-8229-9072-5(CKB)3710000000096418(EBL)2045619(OCoLC)835768841(SSID)ssj0000818917(PQKBManifestationID)11430463(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000818917(PQKBWorkID)10843448(PQKB)11642573(MiAaPQ)EBC2045619(MdBmJHUP)muse19384(Au-PeEL)EBL2045619(CaPaEBR)ebr10855500(CaONFJC)MIL587487(EXLCZ)99371000000009641820100623h20092009 uy| pengur|||||||nn|ntxtccrShadow ball new and selected poems /Charles Harper WebbPittsburgh, Pennsylvania :University of Pittsburgh Press,[2009]©20091 online resource (156 p.)Pitt poetry seriesDescription based upon print version of record.0-8229-6042-7 ""Contents""; ""from Reading the Water 1997""; ""The Mummy Meets Hot-Headed Naked Ice-Borers""; ""The Death of Santa Claus""; ""Prayer for the Man Who Mugged My Father, 72""; ""Spiders""; ""The Crane Boy""; ""One Story""; ""In Praise of Pliny""; ""Umbrellas""; ""Broken Toe""; ""Peaches""; ""Invocation to Allen as the Muse Euterpe""; ""The Shape of History""; ""from Liver 1999""; ""Wedding Dress""; ""Over the Town""; ""Biblical Also-Rans""; ""Musk Turtle""; ""Tone of Voice""; ""Tenderness in Men""; ""Prozac""; ""Byron, Keats, and Shelley""; ""Someone Else's Good News""; ""Losing My Hair""""Love Poetry""""Descent""; ""from Tulip Farms and Leper Colonies 2001""; ""Did That Really Happen?""; ""To Prove that We Existed Before You Were Born,""; ""Charles Harper Webb""; ""Vikings""; ""A Salesman and a Librarian""; ""Death Comes to the Baby Boom""; ""Waking at 3 A.M.""; ""Cocksucker""; ""Waiting""; ""Socks""; ""To Make My Countrymen Love Poetry""; ""from Hot Popsicles 2005""; ""Consciousness""; ""Rat Defeated in a Landslide""; ""To Set Himself Off from the Crowd,""; ""Conan the Barbarian""; ""A Ticklish Situation""; ""Judge Frosty Presiding""; ""Imp of the Verbose""""Hot Popsicles""""Superman, Old""; ""Making Things Right""; ""from Amplified Dog 2006""; ""Amplified Dog""; ""Ooh My Soul""; ""My Wife Insists That, On Our First Date, I Told Her I Had Seven Kinds of Hair""; ""The New World Book of Webbs""; ""Pumpkin Envy""; ""Cat Possessed by Poet Keats""; ""Prayer to Tear the Sperm-Dam Down""; ""The Animals Are Leaving""; ""A Meal Not Eaten""; ""A Grand Opening of Hearts""; ""The Open-Air Recital Survived a Shaky Start""; ""How to Live""; ""New Poems""; ""Shadow Ball""; ""Comebacks""; ""Blues""; ""Sneaker Males""; ""Goddess""; ""Feeders""""Ghost of a Chance""""Big""; ""Kidnapper-Couple Who Forgot to Leave a Ransom Note Sentenced to 14 Years""; ""Teachers Names""; ""We've Got Rhythm""; ""I Have Much Better Poems than This""; ""He Won't Go to Sleep Without Me,""; ""Flashlight""An accessible new and selected collection of poems for poetry insiders and general readers. Powerful, passionate, humorous, and often complex, yet fun to read. They go down easy, but pack a whallop.Pitt poetry series.American poetry21st centuryElectronic books.American poetry811/.54Webb Charles Harper978552MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910464921803321Shadow ball2230402UNINA