Winter sky : new and selected poems, 1968-2008 / / Coleman Barks

• Autore: Barks Coleman
• Pubblicazione: Athens, : University of Georgia Press, c2008
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (334 p.)
• Disciplina: 811/.54
• Soggetto topico: Poetry
• Note generali: "A Brown Thrasher Books original"--T.p. verso.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Notes in Lieu of Preface -- 2003 - 2008 NEW POEMS -- The Center -- Extravagance -- The Light in Everyone's Eyes -- As the Dew -- From There ain't nothing like it. -- On Spirit -- FROM SCRAP WOOD MAN (2007) -- Guidance We Have Need Of -- Reading in Bed -- From Notebooks -- Wine Poems -- The Speed of Consciousness and August 18th -- Car Trips -- The Return of Professor Dumwhistle -- These Winter Skies -- Losing It -- American College Students Overheard in a Restaurant After I Return from Afghanistan -- Just This Once -- From Central Asian Sufis and the Nature of the Heart -- 1978-2002 FROM TENTMAKING (2002) -- Tentmaking -- Purring -- Divination -- Book Tour Cure for Talking Too Much in Public -- Question -- Bill Matthews Coming Along -- Black Rubber Ball -- Bridge -- Luke and the Duct Tape -- Whittling -- Spring Morning -- Light on Leaves -- The Ant -- Abscission Leaf, Looking into Water -- Silo, Spring Violets -- The Final Final -- Currycombing -- Donald Hall Is Falling Down -- The Animal -- So Close, Not a Foot -- Love for Clouds -- 1971 and 1942 -- None Other -- Fly -- Stone -- Lard Gourd -- The Railing -- What We Learn from Literature -- These Very Feet -- The Look on the Dog's Face -- Grace -- Service -- The Saint and Sinner Bullshit -- Fine Arts Auditorium -- Night Train, Southern France -- Kingsnake -- Driving Back from the Mountains -- Straying -- Elegy for John Seawright -- FROM CLUB: GRAND DAUGHTER POEMS (2001) -- No Finale -- Club -- Wietien -- To Make an Ocean -- Auspices -- Boxkite -- Dumb Chess -- Glad -- In Opening Game Day Traffic -- Poetry for Children -- FROM GOURD SEED (1993) -- A Wish -- A Section of the Oconee Near Watkinsville -- Buttermilk -- The House of the Tibetan Bellmaker -- Higdon Cove -- The Great Blue Heron -- In the Woods, You and I -- Fried Green Tomato Sandwiches. ; A Walk in the Botanical Gardens -- Bedclothes -- Titty-Bream -- Summer Food -- Kindling -- The Fire -- The Wind Today -- Orange Circles on Lavender Wings -- Let the Door Be Locked -- Hymenoptera -- Some Orange Juice -- WRFC -- Walk Soup -- Each Peach -- The Tree -- Audience -- Spring Lizards -- The Grocery Store -- Vigil Notes -- New Year's Day Nap -- Darshan Singh and Christian Harmony -- Small Talk: Coffee -- The Second Mike Poem -- Three -- Every Evening -- The End of the Sentence -- The Fucking Grave -- Salt -- Becoming Milton -- Two-Hour Wait in Toronto -- Night Creek -- An Up-Till-Now-Uncelebrated Joy -- These Things, Hereafter -- Sleet -- The Brain-House -- Carolina Silverbells -- Fightingtown Creek -- Gourd Day -- A Hard-Cuss for Gourd Seed -- 1967-1977 FROM WE'RE LAUGHING AT THE DAMAGE (1977) -- Good night. -- Snow. -- Putting up a bowl, its true resting -- A flame is walking -- This is how we'd like -- FROM NEW WORDS (1976) -- Sunbath in May -- The Last Rebirth -- The Hall Mirror -- Sand -- New Words -- FROM THE JUICE (1972) -- Body Poems-Big Toe -- Stomach -- Elbow -- Cheek -- Heart -- Brain -- Appendix -- Knuckles -- Navel -- Shoulder Blades -- Jaw -- Upper Lip -- Adam's Apple -- Small of the Back -- Crown of the Hair -- Tongue -- Bags Under the Eyes -- Nape -- Jowl -- Ear Lobe -- Thighs -- Achilles Tendon -- Wrist -- Hips -- Eye -- Blood -- Semen -- Cavities -- Roof of the Mouth -- Middle Finger -- Genitals -- Skull -- Spine -- Coccyx -- Blind Spot -- Lymph -- Scar -- Pelvis -- Buttocks -- Inner Ear -- Goosepimples -- Liver -- Haunches -- Back of the Knee -- Dimple -- Sleep -- Spleen -- Fingertips -- Armpit -- Uvula -- Taste Buds -- Spoor -- Yawn -- Tic -- Nostrils -- Blush -- Halfgainer, Halftwist -- Spit 'n Image -- Hands -- Rice -- Caul -- Shadow -- Bosoms -- Balls -- Birthmark -- Sound Made by Snapping the Fingers -- Choosing. ; Goat & -- Boy -- Five Ways Down Stringer's Ridge -- The Literal Snake -- The Afterlife -- The Oracle -- Nickajack Cave -- The Finger of Necessity -- The Mule -- The African Night Adder -- The Flag Page -- Taking a Nap Underneath My Desk -- Keats -- The Swim -- Notes.
• Sommario/riassunto: As the foremost translator of thirteenth-century mystic poet Jalal Al-Din Rumi, Coleman Barks reaches a devoted, inspired, and ever-widening international audience. Yet the foundation for Barks's work as a translator is his own significant body of work as a poet. Winter Sky offers a selection from Barks's seven previously published books combined with a group of new poems. Barks's open-hearted, free verse poetry is infused with a joy of the spirit at play with the forms of the world. His journey through life is deeply embedded in his work. The poems spring directly from experience and engage with subjects such as the elation and struggle of having and raising children, grief over the deaths of loved ones, the transition from parent to grandparent, or the changing nature and intensity of desire. Barks's open letter to President Bush, written days before the invasion of Iraq and widely circulated online, is a poetic plea for peace, offering a startling and moving alternative to war. Whether it is the childhood excitement of being named best athlete at summer camp or the early signs of dementia at the age of seventy, Barks uses the personal to convey the universal. The unique flow of a life is here in poems that are rueful, confused, torn, and grateful, but always informed by Barks's transcendent sense of joy and playfulness.
• ISBN: 9786613267948; 9781283267946; 1283267942; 9780820342023; 0820342025
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9911152976303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II