02488nam 2200589 450 991081890060332120200520144314.00-8229-8020-7(CKB)2550000001341107(SSID)ssj0001339401(PQKBManifestationID)11735757(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001339401(PQKBWorkID)11350366(PQKB)11433030(OCoLC)887684065(MdBmJHUP)muse35569(Au-PeEL)EBL2041583(CaPaEBR)ebr10904621(CaONFJC)MIL633785(OCoLC)908671435(MiAaPQ)EBC2041583(EXLCZ)99255000000134110720140810h20142014 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrLucky bones /Peter MeinkePittsburgh, Pennsylvania :University of Pittsburgh Press,2014.©20141 online resource (97 pages)Pitt Poetry SeriesPoems.0-8229-6310-8 1-322-02534-7 Old houses -- The molecule of life -- Skipping stones.In Lucky Bones, Peter Meinke moves fluidly through free and formal shapes, taking the reader on a tour through America in the 21st century: family, politics, love, war and peace, old age and death are looked at in ways that are surprising, clear, and warm-hearted. Lit by flashes of anger and laughter as he surveys his territory from the vantage point of old age, the poems are, in the end, both sane and profound, set to Meinke's own music. Consisting of over sixty new poems, the book begins with a house-shaped poem about a family in a beloved old home, and then moves out into the world with poems about a fire-bug, drive-by shootings, and the often violent human condition before circling back to the home and a final epitaph. A clear-eyed feeling of loss permeates Lucky Bones, but not despair: in the midst of conflict, Meinke's world is full of wonder, and wonderful people.Pitt poetry series.English poetryAmerican poetryEnglish poetry.American poetry.821.008Meinke Peter1619580MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910818900603321Lucky bones3981946UNINA