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- Yellow Moving Van
- Book
- 2018
- Published by: University of Pittsburgh Press
- Series: Pitt Poetry Series
summary
Ron Koertge’s Yellow Moving Van is a collection of relaxed and buoyant and sometimes very funny poems that address Desi & Lucy with the same courtesy as Walt Whitman. The author celebrates his roots in the Mid-West and a few pages later stops off in Transylvania. These poems like to sometimes embrace and sometimes confound expectations, and they all stand together as enemies of the murky and pompous. There is apparently no subject—Prometheus, a fifty foot woman, or Death himself—that is unwilling to fall under his spell.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright Page
- pp. 2-5
- Fright Night
- p. 6
- Dear Reader,
- p. 9
- I Love Lucy
- pp. 10-11
- In the Folk Art Wing
- p. 13
- Sing, Goddess
- p. 17
- Yellow Moving Van
- p. 25
- Thanks for Coming In
- p. 30
- Church Camp
- p. 31
- Two Weeks with Pay
- pp. 32-33
- Song of Myselfie
- pp. 35-36
- How to Get There
- p. 37
- Whispering Pines
- p. 38
- Artemis and Actaeon
- p. 39
- I Married a Monster from Outer Space
- pp. 43-44
- Now Finally
- p. 45
- Dear Citizen,
- pp. 48-49
- Reading to the Bland
- p. 50
- The Sinful Woman
- p. 51
- The Associate Dean
- p. 52
- A Cast-Iron Boy
- p. 53
- Yearling Sale
- p. 54
- Life on the Farm
- p. 56
- Ode to Joy
- p. 64
- A Surprise Visit
- p. 71
- After the Funeral
- p. 73
- Mattress Palace
- pp. 74-76
- Acknowledgments
- p. 77
Additional Information
ISBN
9780822986201
Related ISBN(s)
9780822965626
MARC Record
OCLC
1049857796
Pages
85
Launched on MUSE
2018-09-02
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2018