04284nam 2200721Ia 450 991097408850332120200520144314.097866138957459781283583299128358329197802520922750252092279(CKB)2670000000241202(EBL)3414091(SSID)ssj0000711202(PQKBManifestationID)11411137(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000711202(PQKBWorkID)10682263(PQKB)11454117(MiAaPQ)EBC3414091(OCoLC)841171407(MdBmJHUP)muse23814(Au-PeEL)EBL3414091(CaPaEBR)ebr10593763(CaONFJC)MIL389574(OCoLC)923495469(Perlego)2383063(EXLCZ)99267000000024120220060906d2007 ub 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtccrThe disappearing trick poems /by Len Roberts1st ed.Urbana University of Illinois Pressc20071 online resource (114 p.)Illinois poetry seriesDescription based upon print version of record.9780252073748 0252073746 9780252031281 0252031288 ""front cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""I""; ""Washing the Steps""; ""My Old Friend, My Daughter, October, Wassergass""; ""I blame it on him""; ""I CAN""T FORGET YOU.""; ""The Silent Archangels""; ""The Eternal Present of the Ancient Chinese Poems""; ""Cover Girl Sparkle""; ""Flicking""; ""Receiving at the Kneeling Rail""; ""The Disappearing Trick""; ""Pear Tart""; ""II""; ""Pitching in the Aggie""; ""A Room for Jesus""; ""The Right Dress""; ""The starlings fill the trees""; ""At the Breakfast Table with My Seventeen-Year-Old Son""""Car on the Road, Late July, Wassergass""""Letter to HC in the Hospital""; ""MISSING""; ""Fireflies at the Cohoes Drive-In""; ""The saints always""; ""Card Game""; ""III""; ""Indulgences for the Dead""; ""In the Expert Valet Clothing Shop""; ""Another Lent, the purple shrouds""; ""Trying to Read Han Shan""; ""Limbo, Wassergass""; ""Poison Sumac""; ""Lucky""; ""Suet""; ""Bullfrog, Wassergass""; ""Sequence""; ""Sleep-Eaze""; ""IV""; ""The Chasm""; ""Four-Way Switch""; ""The Ninth Circle, Wassergass""; ""I keep repeating the name of the concerto""; ""Letter #3 to Carruth about the Heron""""Hanging Tinsel""""Snowflakes in Hell""; ""Considering Aunt Bea's white Toyota Celica""; ""Right after Mass""; ""Inside the dim kitchen the rosary""; ""Window Candle""; ""V""; ""Heaven's Gate""; ""Our Son Leaves His Miniature Japanese Sand Garden Behind Because There Will Be No Room in the Dorm""; ""Compensate""; ""The Failed Trick""; ""My Father, Setting the Line, Sunny October""; ""Monitoring Impulses""; ""Sister Aquinas, Questioning""; ""Peaches in Pennsylvania Late August""; ""What does a man who's 55 say""; ""Window of Our Soul""; ""Dinner with My Son, Casey Lynn's Diner, Hellertown""""back cover""In The Disappearing Trick, Len Roberts wrestles with the loss of loved ones--whether that loss be through death, a son moving away to college, or simply how people fade from our lives and memories. Hybrids of the narrative and lyric form, these poems are models of indirect statement that have, as Sharon Olds has said, "emotional courage, powerful music, and a deep balance." Like the light shining on a face, or a girl's thigh back in a sixth-grade class, the poems often come as Proustian flashes--lasting just a second, but seeming eternal--amid an increasing darkness. Illinois Poetry SeriesDysfunctional familiesPoetryMemory in literatureDysfunctional familiesMemory in literature.811/.54Roberts Len1947-2007.1809867MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910974088503321The disappearing trick4360883UNINA