In this Book
- American Ghost Roses
- Book
- 2010
- Published by: University of Illinois Press
- Series: Illinois Poetry Series
summary
In his first book as the poet laureate of Illinois, Kevin Stein shoulders an array of poetic forms, blending pathos, humor, and social commentary. These poems--ranging from meditative narratives to improvisational lyrics--explore art's capacity to embody as well as express contemporary culture. Stein embraces subjects as various as his father's death, magazine sex surveys, Kandinsky's theory of art, the dangling modifier, Jimi Hendrix's flaming guitar, racial bigotry, and a teacher's comments on a botched poem. Presiding over this miscellany are ghosts of a peculiarly American garden of dreamers and beloved misfits, those redeemed and those left fingering the locked gate.
Table of Contents
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- Table of Contents
- pp. ix-x
- One
- Wishful Rhetoric
- pp. 3-4
- Two
- Reintroductions
- pp. 13-14
- Adolescent Hemlock
- pp. 15-16
- In the House of Being
- pp. 17-21
- Revelation in Pinks and Red
- pp. 23-24
- Superstitious Manna
- p. 25
- Three
- Sappho's Fragment 63
- pp. 38-39
- The Other One
- pp. 48-49
- To Bob Marley's Toe
- pp. 50-51
- To Bananas
- pp. 54-55
- Four
- Theory & Practice
- pp. 63-64
- Found in a Shoe Box Labeled "Keep"
- pp. 70-73
- In the Nuclear Age
- pp. 74-75
- To Wheelbarrows
- pp. 78-79
- These Gifts
- pp. 82-83
- Won't You Stand Next to My Fire
- pp. 84-85
Additional Information
ISBN
9780252092565
Related ISBN(s)
9780252029981, 9780252072406
MARC Record
OCLC
815477952
Pages
104
Launched on MUSE
2013-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2005