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- Red Clay Weather
- Book
- 2011
- Published by: University of Pittsburgh Press
- Series: Pitt Poetry Series
summary
“Among other things, Shepherd has always been an elemental poet. His work abounds with the imagery and motifs of water and fire, and while those elements are important here, it is air and earth that are the more dominant elements in this collection. . . .
Clay, red clay in particular, recurs several times throughout the collection as a motif of earth. It is the substance of creation, but always of impermanent things, whether heroes or Babylonian statues with feet of clay, or of things durable but fragile, such as the cuneiform tablets of ‘A Parking Lot Just Outside the Ruins of Babylon.’”
—Robert Philen, from the Foreword
Clay, red clay in particular, recurs several times throughout the collection as a motif of earth. It is the substance of creation, but always of impermanent things, whether heroes or Babylonian statues with feet of clay, or of things durable but fragile, such as the cuneiform tablets of ‘A Parking Lot Just Outside the Ruins of Babylon.’”
—Robert Philen, from the Foreword
Table of Contents
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- To Be Free
- p. 8
- The New Life
- p. 9
- Direction of Fall
- p. 10
- E Lucevan le Stelle
- pp. 12-13
- Experiment V
- p. 14
- In the Badlands
- p. 15
- Water Is a Museum
- pp. 16-17
- Doppelganger Music
- pp. 18-19
- A Shoulder to the Wheel
- pp. 20-21
- To Summon Up a Son
- p. 24
- Given Distance,
- pp. 25-26
- Wrote for Luck
- pp. 28-29
- Some Dreams He Forgot
- pp. 35-40
- Dead Boys Club
- pp. 43-44
- A Little Iliad
- pp. 46-47
- My Immortal
- pp. 51-52
- The New Gods
- p. 54
- And This She Knows
- pp. 58-59
- A Man Named Property
- pp. 60-61
- Natural Selection
- p. 62
- The Shallows
- pp. 64-65
- What It Is to Burn
- p. 66
- Next Year in Gomorrah
- pp. 68-70
- Kings Go Forth
- p. 74
- Seize the Day
- pp. 75-76
- September Songs
- pp. 77-78
- Lincoln Park Apocrypha
- pp. 82-83
- “God-With-Us”
- pp. 84-86
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 87-88
Additional Information
ISBN
9780822978305
Related ISBN(s)
9780822961499
MARC Record
OCLC
835768704
Pages
102
Launched on MUSE
2013-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No