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- Shadow Ball: New and Selected Poems
- Book
- 2009
- Published by: University of Pittsburgh Press
- Series: Pitt Poetry Series
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An accessible new and selected collection of poems for poetry insiders and general readers. Powerful, passionate, humorous, and often complex, yet fun to read. They go down easy, but pack a whallop.
Table of Contents
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- from Reading the Water 1997
- pp. 1-26
- The Death of Santa Claus
- pp. 5-6
- The Crane Boy
- pp. 11-12
- In Praise of Pliny
- pp. 15-16
- Broken Toe
- pp. 19-20
- The Shape of History
- p. 26
- from Liver 1999
- pp. 27-48
- Wedding Dress
- pp. 29-30
- Over the Town
- pp. 31-32
- Biblical Also-Rans
- pp. 33-34
- Musk Turtle
- pp. 35-36
- Tone of Voice
- p. 37
- Tenderness in Men
- p. 38
- Byron, Keats, and Shelley
- pp. 40-41
- Someone Else’s Good News
- pp. 42-43
- Losing My Hair
- pp. 44-45
- Love Poetry
- pp. 46-47
- Did That Really Happen?
- pp. 51-52
- Charles Harper Webb
- pp. 55-56
- Death Comes to the Baby Boom
- pp. 60-61
- Waking at 3 A.M.
- pp. 62-63
- Cocksucker
- pp. 64-65
- To Make My Countrymen Love Poetry
- pp. 68-70
- from Hot Popsicles 2005
- pp. 71-85
- Consciousness
- pp. 73-74
- Conan the Barbarian
- p. 77
- A Ticklish Situation
- p. 78
- Imp of the Verbose
- pp. 80-81
- Hot Popsicles
- p. 82
- Superman, Old
- pp. 83-84
- Making Things Right
- p. 85
- from Amplified Dog 2006
- pp. 87-110
- Amplified Dog
- pp. 89-90
- Ooh My Soul
- pp. 91-92
- The New World Book of Webbs
- pp. 94-95
- Pumpkin Envy
- p. 96
- Cat Possessed by Poet Keats
- pp. 97-98
- Prayer to Tear the Sperm-Dam Down
- pp. 99-101
- The Animals Are Leaving
- p. 102
- A Meal Not Eaten
- pp. 103-104
- A Grand Opening of Hearts
- pp. 105-106
- The Open-Air Recital Survived a Shaky Start
- pp. 107-108
- How to Live
- pp. 109-110
- New Poems
- Shadow Ball
- pp. 113-114
- Sneaker Males
- pp. 119-120
- “Ghost of a Chance“
- pp. 125-126
- Teachers’ Names
- pp. 131-132
- He Won’t Go to Sleep Without Me
- pp. 137-138
- Flashlight
- pp. 139-140
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 143-145
Additional Information
ISBN
9780822990727
Related ISBN(s)
9780822960423
MARC Record
OCLC
835768841
Pages
155
Launched on MUSE
2013-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
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