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The back chamber /

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011.Description: 82 p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9780547645858
  • 0547645856
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 811/.54 22
LOC classification:
  • PS3515.A3152 B33 2011
Other classification:
  • POE005010
Contents:
I. Meatloaf. The things -- Love's progress -- Showtunes -- Ruins -- Conclusion at Union Lake -- Three women -- Nymph and shepherd -- Bangers and mash -- River -- Meatloaf -- The week -- Convergences -- Advent -- Apples peaches -- After the prom -- Creative writing -- The pursuit of poetry -- Ric's progress.
III. Rocking Chairs Painted green. The number -- Scar tissue -- Sleep -- Closing -- What we did -- Searching -- The gardener -- The offspring -- Freezes and Junes -- The widower's cowbell -- Goosefeathers -- the back chamber -- Maples -- The bone ring -- Alterations -- Pieces -- Envy -- "Poetry and ambition" -- Green farmhouse chairs.
Summary: The first full-length volume of poems in a decade by the former poet laureate of the United States. He illuminates the evocative, iconic objects of deep memory--"a cowbell," "a white stone perfectly round," "a three-legged milking stool"--that serve to foreground the rich meditations on time and mortality that run through his remarkable new collection. While Hall's devoted readers will recognize many of his long-standing preoccupations--baseball, the family farm, love, sex, and friendship--what will strike them as new is the fierce, pitiless poignancy he reveals as his own life's end comes into view.
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Item type Home library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode
NF NF Chamberlin Free Public Library Nonfiction 811 .54 HAL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 34517000460561

I. Meatloaf. The things -- Love's progress -- Showtunes -- Ruins -- Conclusion at Union Lake -- Three women -- Nymph and shepherd -- Bangers and mash -- River -- Meatloaf -- The week -- Convergences -- Advent -- Apples peaches -- After the prom -- Creative writing -- The pursuit of poetry -- Ric's progress.

III. Rocking Chairs Painted green. The number -- Scar tissue -- Sleep -- Closing -- What we did -- Searching -- The gardener -- The offspring -- Freezes and Junes -- The widower's cowbell -- Goosefeathers -- the back chamber -- Maples -- The bone ring -- Alterations -- Pieces -- Envy -- "Poetry and ambition" -- Green farmhouse chairs.

The first full-length volume of poems in a decade by the former poet laureate of the United States. He illuminates the evocative, iconic objects of deep memory--"a cowbell," "a white stone perfectly round," "a three-legged milking stool"--that serve to foreground the rich meditations on time and mortality that run through his remarkable new collection. While Hall's devoted readers will recognize many of his long-standing preoccupations--baseball, the family farm, love, sex, and friendship--what will strike them as new is the fierce, pitiless poignancy he reveals as his own life's end comes into view.

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