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- Vaudeville in the Dark: Poems
- Book
- 2010
- Published by: Louisiana State University Press
- Series: Southern Literary Studies
summary
Vaudeville in the Dark is R. M. Ryan's dance to the music of our times, his search for salvation in poetry. In writing up our minor moments, he reckons to find "peace beneath the unsteady light / where we give ourselves to the world / as we circle in and out of the dark." Sometimes funny, sometimes somber, the world of Vaudeville in the Dark ranges from an elegy on the death of a miner in Sago, West Virginia, to a meditation on the life of Rembrandt. Tony the Tiger, Glenn Gould, Chaucer---each has a moment as Ryan makes his way across the stage of our lives. He creates a world both frightening and funny as we -- songsters all -- long for a "heart dissolved in melody."
Table of Contents
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- Taking Turns
- pp. 1-2
- Part I
- Field Guide to the Night
- pp. 5-7
- O Careless Love
- pp. 8-10
- I Don’t Know. I Never Did.
- pp. 11-12
- Hide and Seek
- pp. 13-14
- Depression
- p. 18
- The Miner’s Tale
- pp. 20-21
- Part II
- Art Lesson
- pp. 26-27
- Where Is My Wandering Boy Tonight?
- pp. 28-30
- Moods for Moderns
- pp. 31-32
- So That Was the End of the Century
- pp. 33-34
- Part III
- Floating Hearts
- pp. 41-44
- The Last Shape Possible
- pp. 45-46
- Down to Earth
- pp. 47-48
- The Calling
- pp. 49-51
- Poems To Polka To
- pp. 52-54
- Afterthoughts
- pp. 55-56
- Objets du Monde
- pp. 57-58
- The Accordionist
- p. 59
- So Much the Brighter
- p. 60
- On the Water
- p. 61
- Monet at Sea
- pp. 62-63
- Lady with a Jaguar
- p. 64
- Part IV
- Taking It In
- p. 68
Additional Information
ISBN
9780807138212
Related ISBN(s)
9780807136898
MARC Record
OCLC
694145300
Pages
80
Launched on MUSE
2015-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No