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- Darkened Rooms of Summer: New and Selected Poems
- Book
- 2014
- Published by: University of Nebraska Press
- Series: Ted Kooser Contemporary Poetry
summary
For nearly half a century Jared Carter has been quietly mapping the American heartland. Line by line, his poetry has shown us the landscape, sounded the voices, conjured the music, and tested the silence of the ever-changing and yet ever-constant Midwest that figures so prominently in the American story. And yet what we find in Carter’s poetry is endlessly new. Here, in poems selected from his first five books, is the summer-long buzz of the cicada and the crack of the cue ball, the young rebel on his big Harley, and the YMCA secretary who backstrokes her way across the indoor pool. Here, too, are thirty new poems in fixed form that illustrate Carter’s continued quest for a poetry of “universal interest.” Taken together, these selections are, truly, poetry in the American grain.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. xiii-xiv
- Introduction
- pp. xv-xvi
- From Work, for the Night Is Coming | 1981
- Early Warning
- p. 4
- For Jack Chatham
- p. 5
- The Madhouse
- pp. 6-7
- Walking the Ties
- p. 8
- The Undertaker
- pp. 12-13
- Monument City
- p. 14
- At the Sign-Painter’s
- pp. 16-17
- Turning the Brick
- p. 18
- Landing the Bees
- p. 19
- The Measuring
- pp. 20-21
- Shaking the Peonies
- p. 25
- From After the Rain | 1993
- After the Rain
- p. 29
- The Gleaning
- pp. 34-35
- Barn Siding
- pp. 46-63
- Drawing the Antique
- pp. 66-67
- For an Old Flame
- p. 68
- Portrait Studio
- p. 69
- Cecropia Moth
- p. 70
- Seed Storm
- p. 71
- Galleynipper
- pp. 72-73
- Changeling
- p. 74
- Mourning Doves
- p. 75
- The Believers
- pp. 76-77
- From Les Barricades Mystérieuses | 1999
- Improvisation
- p. 81
- Millefiori
- p. 89
- Clavichord
- p. 90
- Phosphorescence
- p. 92
- Palimpsest
- p. 93
- From Cross This Bridge at a Walk | 2006
- Covered Bridge
- pp. 101-115
- Picking Stone
- pp. 126-130
- From A Dance in the Street | 2012
- Prophet Township
- pp. 133-135
- Roadside Crosses
- p. 138
- In the Military Park
- p. 141
- The Pool at Noon
- pp. 142-144
- Plastic Sack
- p. 145
- Hidden Door
- p. 148
- Cicadas in the Rain
- p. 149
- At the Art Institute
- pp. 152-154
- Mourning Dove Ascending
- p. 155
- Up in Michigan
- pp. 156-157
- Blank Paper
- pp. 158-159
- Under the Snowball Bush
- pp. 160-161
- What Is Dream?
- p. 164
- New Poems
- Schoolhouse
- p. 168
- Cross-harp
- p. 177
- Philoctetes
- p. 188
- Treadwheel
- p. 190
- Journeyman
- p. 193
- Prescription
- p. 195
Additional Information
ISBN
9780803253490
Related ISBN(s)
9780803248571
MARC Record
OCLC
873760021
Pages
192
Launched on MUSE
2016-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No