In this Book

Borgo Of The Holy Ghost

Book
Stephen McLeod foreword by Richard Howard
2003
Published by: Utah State University Press
Series: Swenson Poetry Award
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An accomplished poet with credits in such literary magazines as APR, Paris Review, Ploughshares, and many others, Stephen McLeod is the 2001 recipient of the May Swenson Poetry Award. Judge for the competition was Richard Howard, internationally known poet and winner of the Pulitzer and many other poetry awards.

Table of Contents

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Cover

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

pp. vii-viii

FOREWORD A Note on Stephen McLeod’s The Borgo of the Holy Ghost

pp. ix-x

ONE

Donation

pp. 5

Becoming Kansas

pp. 6-7

That Crazy Moon

pp. 8

Andante con Moto

pp. 9-11

The Shoulder Where It Belongs

pp. 12

Of Being and Essence

pp. 13

The Execution

pp. 14

Logo

pp. 15

The Borgo of the Holy Ghost

pp. 16-17

Easter in Belgrade (1999)

pp. 18-19

A.D.

pp. 19

At John Brown’s Grave

pp. 20-21

Diva

pp. 22

The Broken Gull

pp. 23-24

TWO

Obsessive

pp. 27

Limelight

pp. 28

Mismaloya Bay (Mexico, 1977)

pp. 29

Speaking in Tongues

pp. 30-31

My Father’s Son

pp. 32

Broken

pp. 33

Our Lady of Abundance

pp. 34

For Barbara & Vincent

pp. 35-36

Against Stevens

pp. 37

I Saw the World End

pp. 38

Nietzsche at Bayreuth: 1876

pp. 39

Das Lied von der Erde

pp. 40

Brindisi

pp. 41

The Goldberg Variations

pp. 42

Chronic

pp. 43

Blessing

pp. 44

First Morning Light

pp. 45-46

An Exercise for Lovers

pp. 47

What to Do What to Say

pp. 48

THREE

Creation (Rodin)

pp. 51

Ici (Joan Mitchell)

pp. 52

Apology (Willem de Kooning)

pp. 53

Gray and Green (Mark Rothko)

pp. 54

Autumn Rhythm ( Jackson Pollock)

pp. 55

Pieta (Michelangelo)

pp. 56

Annunciation (Fra Angelico)

pp. 57-58

Late Reading

pp. 59-60

Where I Would Not Go

pp. 61

My Brother’s Ghost

pp. 62

Just By Deciding It

pp. 63-64

Just the Facts

pp. 65

All Roads Lead to Kansas

pp. 66-67

Roses

pp. 68

At the West Street Piers

pp. 69

Heaven Reassigned

pp. 70-71

What Comes Through Hearing

pp. 72

The Dead

pp. 73

About the Author

pp. 74

The May Swenson Poetry Award

pp. 74
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