Winter amnesties [[electronic resource] ] : [poems] / / Elton Glaser
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| Autore: |
Glaser Elton
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| Titolo: |
Winter amnesties [[electronic resource] ] : [poems] / / Elton Glaser
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| Pubblicazione: | Carbondale, : Crab Orchard Review, : Southern Illinois University Press, c2000 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (90 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 811/.54 |
| Soggetto topico: | Nature |
| Aesthetics | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; One; Clearing the Ground; Hymn and Field Holler; Suppertime; Introibo at 5 a.m.; Epiphany Stick; Dancing Lessons; The Summoning; Seminary Easter; King Cake Party; Somniloquy; American Flyer; Junkyard Blues; Winter Inset; Cradlesong; Two; Crows in a Locust Tree; Turning with the Animals; First Earth; Seapiece; This Late, This Far; Shadows by Giacometti; Freefall at Evening; Nothing of Ourselves; Hibernation; Eine Kleine Nachtmusik; A Little Daymusic; Late Returns in Eden; Bird Lady; Dog Nights; Sunny Side Up; Sub Rosa; Underfoot |
| Half-Ode at HarvestThree; This Is Your; Zero Summer; Bifocal; Long in the Tooth; The Effects of Myth at Two below Zero; Le Piano Introspectif; The Faith of Forty; Smoking; Dirge in the Chalumeau Register; Spry Declensions; Refusing October; Purge; Principles of Conversion; Forecasts; Last Poem of Summer; Deathbed Edition; Also in the Series; Back Cover | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Winter Amnesties is a book of origins and endings, griefs and reconciliations. Each poem addresses the dilemma posed by G. K. Chesterton: "One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it." The poems revisit the past, assess the present, and stare hard into the future. At middle age, Glaser remembers his youth in Louisiana and settles into the long stretch of his adult years in Ohio; he makes his peace with "the life that allows." As son, as father, as poet, he looks to his legacy, whatever dim remnant of himself might continue after "all flesh falls back |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Winter amnesties |
| ISBN: | 0-8093-8501-5 |
| 1-299-05089-1 | |
| 0-585-33276-2 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910808016803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Crab Orchard Series in Poetry