LEADER 03328nam 2200601 450 001 9910814269803321 005 20230807204614.0 010 $a1-60940-420-3 010 $a1-60940-419-X 010 $a1-60940-422-X 035 $a(CKB)2670000000581798 035 $a(EBL)1876459 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001380964 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12537722 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001380964 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11392153 035 $a(PQKB)11200568 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1876459 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1876459 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11029012 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL670731 035 $a(OCoLC)897498184 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000581798 100 $a20150318h20152015 uy p 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe calculus of falling bodies $epoems /$fGeoff Rips 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aSan Antonio, Texas :$cWings Press,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (98 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-322-39449-0 311 $a1-60940-421-1 327 $aFront Cover; Title Page; Half Title; Copyright; Contents; Dedication; Poetry, Journalism, Writing, the World; Compost; Compost; Dolphin; Wetlands; I lift her up; Resuscitation; Halitosis or I'm Not Sherman and You're Not Georgia; Why I Never Have Anything to Say to You; Traffic; Mowing in the Dark; Epoxy; St. Matthew's Passion; Something larger; Appeal; Aubade; Resuscitation; Personal Geography; A Landscape; New York City, The Way It Is; As I Was Saying; Ode to the Lesser and Greater Cockroach; Survival; Tonight the World Started Over; Looking for Work; Work; Madrid 1974 327 $aFata Susanna, Don't You CryFaced with a Stalled Economy, They Try to Bring an End to What We Know; Dreams; Meditation; Driving; These Days; San Antonio; Mullet; Cleaning Fish; Dan Worked in a Nursing Home; The Seasons; It Can't Be Denied; Light Years; Thanksgiving; The Calculus of Falling Bodies; The Calculus of Falling Bodies; Harvest; Losing Uncle Ed; Shaking Hands; Hygiene; War is a Cure for Loneliness; At 51; An Ending; Things are gonna break; For My Father; A Walk in the Park; No End; What Is It?; The Art of Poetry; Acknowledgments; About the Author; Back Cover 330 $aThis is the first collection of poetry by a writer best known for his journalism, as editor of the Texas Observer, but also as a novelist and primary author of a groundbreaking book about U.S. intelligence agency subversion of the underground press in the U.S. The poems in the collection span the forty years in which the poet has undertaken a deeply personal attempt to understand the mystery of things. They parallel his interest in the greater world but burrow deep inside his own psyche in the attempt to find meaning. His poems include the pantheon of subjects embraced by poets through the age 606 $aLife$vPoetry 606 $aDeath$vPoetry 615 0$aLife 615 0$aDeath 676 $a811/.6 700 $aRips$b Geoffrey$01723354 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910814269803321 996 $aThe calculus of falling bodies$94124536 997 $aUNINA