In this Book
- All of You on the Good Earth
- Book
- 2013
- Published by: Red Hen Press
summary
These poems contain fasts and feasts, laments and love songs, histories, fantasies, and elegies, the amusing and heartbreaking debris of life on this world, all the while recalling Seneca's dictum, non est ad astra mollis e terris via ("the road from the earth to the stars is not easy").
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright Page
- pp. 1-8
- Section I. Prelude
- Dusk in the Ruins
- pp. 19-20
- Section II. Sieges and Flights
- Levavi Oculos
- p. 29
- Nights of 1998
- p. 30
- Gravedigger’s Song
- pp. 33-34
- Section III. Monsters
- 4 a.m. Cab Ride
- p. 41
- Outsider Art
- p. 42
- Stargazer Lilies
- p. 45
- An Aging Drunk Observes the Blizzard
- pp. 47-48
- Section IV. From Grub Street to the Brill Building
- Cover to Cover
- p. 52
- Enemies and Co.
- p. 53
- For____________
- p. 54
- Seneca at the Baths
- p. 55
- Rakewell in TriBeCa
- p. 56
- Harmonia Sacra
- p. 58
- Soprano’s Lament
- pp. 59-60
- Section V. Minor Considerations
- The Envelope, Please
- p. 63
- Sportsmanship
- p. 64
- Why Must We Love?
- p. 65
- A Legend about Cats
- p. 66
- Reading the Runes
- p. 67
- Section VI. To the Dark Suburbs and Home Again
- Home Security
- p. 78
- While You Were Out
- p. 81
- City on a Hill
- p. 83
- Simple Instructions
- p. 84
- Meteorology
- p. 85
- Bitter Beginning
- p. 86
- Section VII. Cold Wars and Hot
- Of Empires
- p. 91
- About the Author
- p. 96
Additional Information
ISBN
9781597092852
Related ISBN(s)
9781597092661
MARC Record
OCLC
867739479
Pages
96
Launched on MUSE
2013-10-21
Language
English
Open Access
No
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