LEADER 04710nam 22006135 450 001 9910822185803321 005 20230803021451.0 010 $a1-4008-4803-2 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400848034 035 $a(CKB)2550000001112176 035 $a(EBL)1223118 035 $a(OCoLC)857278631 035 $a(DE-B1597)474404 035 $a(OCoLC)1002255498 035 $a(OCoLC)1004882392 035 $a(OCoLC)1011452952 035 $a(OCoLC)1013938416 035 $a(OCoLC)962359211 035 $a(OCoLC)999361878 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400848034 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1223118 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001112176 100 $a20190708d2013 fg 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $auru|#---|u||u 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAlmanac $ePoems /$fAustin Smith 205 $aCourse Book 210 1$aPrinceton, NJ :$cPrinceton University Press,$d[2013] 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (93 p.) 225 0 $aPrinceton Series of Contemporary Poets ;$v63 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-691-15919-X 311 0 $a1-299-80815-8 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tThe Silo --$tQueen-Anne's Lace --$tFort-Da --$tThistles --$tThe Night My Mother --$tHow a Calf Comes into the World --$tLightning --$tAutumn's Velocity --$tThe Brinkmeiers --$tAerial Photograph, Glasser Farm, 1972 --$tDean --$tCoach Chance --$tThe Man Accused of Fucking Horses --$tThe Bait Shop --$tMemoir of My Imaginary Sister --$tNeon Apotheosis --$tBingo --$tStephenson County Fair in Wartime --$tNancy and Dwayne, Danville, Virginia, 1970 --$tRomeo and Juliet in the Tomb --$tThe Battlefield --$tThe Pit --$tThe Man Who Poisoned Robert Johnson --$tNazi Soldier with a Book in His Pants --$tSharpener of Knives --$tOverlord --$tThe Hotel --$tThe Equation --$tResonance --$tPostcards to Andrew Wyeth --$tRecollection --$tLetter to My Father Written in a Bar in Mitchell, South Dakota --$tOn a Greyhound Bus in America --$tMission --$tThe Scythe --$tThe Mummy in the Freeport Art Museum --$tSirens --$tA Serious House on Serious Earth --$tPoem for Les, Homeless --$tElegy for Missing Teeth --$tDirections for How to Use Crest Whitening Strips --$tThe Trencher --$tInstructions for How to Put an Old Horse Down --$tThe Key in the Stone --$tWake --$tNotes --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aAlmanac is a collection of lyrical and narrative poems that celebrate, and mourn the passing of, the world of the small family farm. But while the poems are all involved in some way with the rural Midwest, particularly with the people and land of the northwestern Illinois dairy farm where Austin Smith was born and raised, they are anything but merely regional. As the poems reflect on farm life, they open out to speak about childhood and death, the loss of tradition, the destruction of the natural world, and the severing of connections between people and the land. This collection also reflects on a long poetic apprenticeship. Smith's father is a poet himself, and Almanac is in part a meditation about the responsibility of the poet, especially the young poet, when it falls to him to speak for what is vanishing. To "e another Illinois poet, Thomas James, Smith has attempted in this book to write poems "clear as the glass of wine / on [his] father's table every Christmas Eve." By turns exhilarating and disquieting, this is a remarkable debut from a distinctive new voice in American poetry.______ From Almanac: THE MUMMY IN THE FREEPORT ART MUSEUM Austin Smith ? Amongst the masterpieces of the small-town Picassos and Van Goghs and photographs of the rural poor and busts of dead Greeks or the molds of busts donated by the Art Institute of Chicago to this dying town's little museum, there was a mummy, a real mummy, laid out in a dim-lit room by himself. I used to go to the museum just to visit him, a pharaoh who, expecting an afterlife of beautiful virgins and infinite food and all the riches and jewels he'd enjoyed in earthly life, must have wondered how the hell he'd ended up in Freeport, Illinois. And I used to go alone into that room and stand beside his sarcophagus and say, "My friend, I've asked myself the same thing." 410 0$aPrinceton Series of Contemporary Poets 606 $aEnglish poetry 606 $aPoems 606 $aPoetry 615 0$aEnglish poetry. 615 0$aPoems. 615 0$aPoetry. 676 $a811/.6 700 $aSmith$b Austin$01685140 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910822185803321 996 $aAlmanac$94057030 997 $aUNINA