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- Pelican Tracks
- Book
- 2003
- Published by: Southern Illinois University Press
- Series: Crab Orchard Series in Poetry
summary
Pelican Tracks is a book of poems with a homing instinct. Elton Glaser travels a restless circuit between his native Louisiana and his adopted home of Ohio, from the “spice and license of the lowlands” to the “streets of Akron cobbled in ice.” These reflections, leavened with a fierce wit and moving bravura of language, are extracted from the origins and ends of the poet’s life—his birth in the final spasms of the second World War, the fears and excitements of youth, the death of parents, and the unexpected losses of adulthood. Marking his tracks between the Pelican State and the Buckeye State, Glaser records the damaged beauty of “everything sinking, everything rising again in the mind.”
Table of Contents
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- Title Page
- p. 4
- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-x
- One
- Ohio Haiku
- pp. 5-6
- Immaterial Witness
- pp. 7-8
- Plus Shipping and Handling
- pp. 10-11
- Dead Reckoning
- p. 12
- The Youngstown Breakfast Show
- pp. 13-15
- Alligator Pears
- p. 16
- O Holy Night
- p. 17
- Swampscape with Oil Platform
- pp. 18-19
- Living in OH
- pp. 20-21
- Metairie Cemetery
- p. 22
- Drowning in Ohio
- p. 23
- Incompatibles in the Wild Light
- pp. 24-25
- Two
- Mardi Gras Indians
- p. 30
- Grand Isle
- pp. 31-32
- Bedtime Legends near Esplanade
- pp. 33-34
- Hurricane Lamp
- p. 35
- Benjamin in the Salvage Yard
- pp. 41-42
- Problem Child
- pp. 43-44
- 2 Drink Minimum
- pp. 46-47
- To John, in Alaska
- pp. 50-51
- Three
- Storyville
- pp. 55-61
- Four
- Time Zones
- p. 65
- Family Possessions
- pp. 68-70
- Pilgrimage
- pp. 71-73
- Louisiana Elegies
- pp. 74-75
- Listening to My Mother Breathe
- pp. 76-77
- Oscillating Fan
- pp. 78-80
- Elegy for Clifton Chenier
- pp. 81-82
- On My Mother’s Death
- p. 83
- Black Baptist Funeral
- pp. 85-87
- Back Cover
- pp. 10-104
Additional Information
ISBN
9780809389025
Related ISBN(s)
9780809325160
MARC Record
OCLC
828869949
Pages
104
Launched on MUSE
2014-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2003