Paul Ruffin
New and Selected Poems
Publication Year: 2010
Published by: TCU Press
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Table of Contents
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pp. v-vii
Introduction
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Paul Ruffin is Texas State University System Regents’ Professor, Distinguished Professor of English at Sam Houston State University, and the 2009 Texas State Poet Laureate. In addition, he is a well-known author, not well-known as in a finalist on...
I.Poems from Lighting the Furnace Pilot (1980)
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Lighting the Furnace Pilot
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Cleaning the Well
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Deep-Sea Fishing
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Calf in an Abandoned Well
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Hotel Fire: New Orleans
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After the Fire at the Old Folks Home
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To a Student on the Front Row
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To Patsy: Tenth Grade
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Pompeii
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The Practice Is Over, Tom Hardy
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To the Twenty-First Century
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Trimming a Tree at Forty
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The High School English Teacher Retires
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II. Poems from Circling (1996)
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Jody Walker: The First Voice
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Frozen Over
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Circling
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Gigging Frogs
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Batting Rocks
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Burying
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Sawdust Pile
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Llano Estacado: The Naming
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Drought
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Root-Pruning
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The Storm Cellar
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Winter Trout
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Redfish
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When We Heard the Learned Astronomer Explain the Theory of the Exploding Universe
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Fever
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Dressing Up
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My Son at Communion
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Buddy Philosophizes after Cutting the Bull
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Shucking Oysters, or Fishing for Metaphors
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Explaining to My Daughter How a Poem Begins
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The Seine
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Shrimping
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III. Poems from The Book of Boys and Girls (2003)
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At the Ruins
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Nasty Notes at the Academic Conference
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Returning to the Luxapalila
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The Mystery for the Magus
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The Woman Who Made Love on Frost’s Grave
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The Female Cousins Teach a Thanksgiving Lesson
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The Animal at the Zoo Speaks of His Keeper
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To the Celibate
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Nesting
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Coronado Heights
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The Woman and Blood
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The Leopard Muses on His Spots
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Redneck with Hair on His Back
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The Old Game: Boy in Training
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He Spins His Tires
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IV. New Poems (2009)
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Larry the Lawn Chair Man
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Eagle Girl
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When the Mummy Became a Mommy
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Why Amelia Went Down
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A Glimpse of the Stone Age, According to Mack Dryden
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In 999 Erikson Sailed the Ocean Brine...The Discovery
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To an Uncommon Prostitute
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Diver off Florida Coast Sexually Assaulted by 300-Pound Turtle
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Eating Chicken Backs
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Acknowledgments
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About the Author
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pp. 85-
E-ISBN-13: 9780875654485
E-ISBN-10: 0875654487
Print-ISBN-13: 9780875654096
Print-ISBN-10: 0875654096
Page Count: 96
Publication Year: 2010
Edition: 1
Series Title: TCU Texas Poet Laureate Series
