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- Truant Pastures: The Complete Poems of Harry C. Staley
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- 2011
- Published by: State University of New York Press
- Series: Excelsior Editions
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Poems that ponder the conundrums of existence and religious faith in wartime.
Table of Contents
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- Introduction I
- pp. 1-3
- Part I. Early Times
- p. 15
- Penmanship (1931, 1984)
- pp. 18-19
- Nocturnes (from early films)
- pp. 21-23
- 1. Dog-Fight (1928)
- p. 21
- 2. Autopsy (1928)
- pp. 21-22
- Services (1929)
- pp. 24-25
- Asymptote (1945)
- pp. 28-29
- Le Bourget (1946)
- pp. 30-31
- Engagement (1949, 1917)
- pp. 32-33
- Casualties
- p. 37
- Sacrifications
- pp. 38-39
- Dark Cubes
- p. 40
- Morning Song
- pp. 41-42
- Apochrypha
- p. 43
- About the Aeneid
- p. 44
- Mother Behold Thy Son
- pp. 45-46
- Early Gothic
- p. 47
- Contractions
- p. 49
- Ex-Capt. McCaffery
- pp. 50-51
- Paradoxology
- pp. 55-56
- Voltages and a Fading Coal
- pp. 57-58
- Final Diagnosis
- p. 61
- Viaticum (1979)
- p. 64
- Abortions (1979)
- p. 66
- Late Winters
- p. 69
- 1. This Cold
- p. 69
- 2. That Year’s Moon
- p. 69
- In the Nursing-Home
- p. 70
- 5. Transfusions
- p. 73
- 6. McCaffery’s Bardo
- p. 74
- 7. McCaffery’s Karma
- p. 74
- The Final Flight
- p. 75
- All One Breath
- p. 77
- THOMAS KELLY
- p. 77
- Fourth Commandment
- pp. 77-78
- Early Mission
- p. 79
- Beyond Victory
- p. 81
- Tom Kelly’s Journal: Two Kills
- pp. 84-85
- Entreaty [’45]
- p. 86
- Nostalgia Bar
- p. 87
- Professor Kelly
- p. 89
- Invocation
- p. 89
- Snorkeling
- p. 91
- Obese as Buddha
- p. 94
- Lacanagain
- p. 97
- About Lower Case
- pp. 98-99
- Construing Aliquis
- p. 103
- Never Say Dido
- p. 104
- Rest Energy and the Doe
- pp. 105-106
- About His Grandson
- p. 107
- Pneumatics
- p. 108
- Convalescent
- p. 109
- Waiting for Beckett
- p. 111
- Elegy for Thomas Kelly
- p. 115
- CAIN AND OTHER RELATIVES
- p. 116
- I Slew Abel
- p. 117
- Cute Kelly’s Semi-Final
- p. 119
- UNCLE GUS KELLY
- p. 121
- 1. Spring 1938
- pp. 121-122
- Principal Parts: Orville Ely
- pp. 126-127
- About Beatrice
- p. 128
- 2. Beatrice Trip
- pp. 128-129
- 5. Beatrice in Surgery
- p. 130
- 6. Hic Jacet Beatrice
- pp. 130-131
- Sister Kelly
- p. 133
- Hoc Est Corpus
- p. 134
- Sgt. Bruce: Born-Again
- p. 136
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ISBN
9781438438368
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OCLC
759598152
Pages
100
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
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No
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