In this Book
- Taken Somehow By Surprise
- Book
- 2011
- Published by: University of Wisconsin Press
summary
David Clewell’s spirited poems cut through the noise we too often accommodate in our daily lives. Breath by surprising breath, this poet takes us into chambers of the heart that have never been mapped quite this way before. By turns raucous and strangely soothing, narrative and lyrical, Clewell traffics in unlikely and compelling details of our mostly discernible world: a school custodian’s role in the burgeoning Space Race, the vastness of abandoned missile silos, the first lawn flamingos, and the living fossil still using a typewriter.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-x
- The Accomplice
- pp. 3-5
- I. Somewhere Else We Have to Be
- pp. 7-30
- So Much Gone and Going
- pp. 13-16
- The Flamingos Have Left the Building
- pp. 17-18
- Goodbye to the Blockhead
- pp. 20-23
- The Only Time There Is
- pp. 24-25
- All Night and Always
- pp. 26-28
- II. Untold Days on Earth
- pp. 37-66
- Home Movies of the Space Race
- pp. 43-51
- Not Exactly Rocket Science
- pp. 52-54
- The Lunar Sympathizers
- pp. 55-58
- A Pocket Guide to Trouble
- pp. 69-81
- The Perfect Stranger
- pp. 82-84
- Albert Einstein Held Me in His Arms
- pp. 95-97
- IV. Jack Ruby's America
- ii. The Chicago Cowboy
- pp. 103-110
- iv. The Difference a Day Makes
- pp. 113-127
Additional Information
ISBN
9780299251130
Related ISBN(s)
9780299251147
MARC Record
OCLC
708034837
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No