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- The Fire Landscape: Poems
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- 2008
- Published by: University of Arkansas Press
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The Fire Landscape is a series of poem sequences that chronicle a wide variety of coming-of-age moments from childhood in the 1950s through the beginning of the 21st century. These deeply layered, complex narrative poems are connected by close personal observation of place and time but also by the politics of the Cold War and its aftermath, including a sequence driven by the May 4, 1970, shooting of students by the National Guard at Kent State where Gary Fincke was a student at the time.
Table of Contents
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- The Anomaly Museum
- pp. 5-6
- Black Veils
- p. 10
- The Sorrows
- pp. 11-12
- Queen for a Day
- p. 13
- Drawing the Soul
- p. 14
- The Fire Landscape
- pp. 15-16
- House Call
- p. 17
- The Fluoroscope Era
- pp. 18-19
- The Coonskin Cap
- pp. 22-23
- The Horns of Guy Lombardo
- pp. 24-25
- While Salk Tested
- p. 29
- Bomb Drill
- pp. 31-32
- Porch Moths
- p. 35
- Watching the Tied Girl
- pp. 36-37
- The Music of Ants
- pp. 39-40
- False Dawn
- pp. 41-42
- Filling in the Maps
- pp. 45-49
- Decorative Food
- pp. 55-56
- White Gloves
- pp. 61-62
- Glitter Stars
- pp. 65-67
- Woom! Ball
- p. 68
- Because It Was Always Summer
- pp. 71-72
- The Impossible
- pp. 73-74
- Kent, Ohio
- p. 77
- Mother’s Day, 1970
- p. 78
- The Summer After
- pp. 80-81
- Late August
- p. 82
- Winter: The Barter System
- pp. 84-85
- The Anniversaries
- p. 86
- The Casual Slurs
- p. 87
- History Bites
- p. 88
- Something like the Attic
- pp. 93-94
- Love Poem for the Dying
- pp. 95-96
- The Ghosts in the Shelter
- pp. 97-98
- Such Places
- pp. 99-100
- The 1918 House
- pp. 101-102
- The Empowerment of Trust
- pp. 104-105
- Heavy Fog, December
- pp. 106-107
- Elegy: The Properties of Blood 1963
- pp. 111-115
Additional Information
ISBN
9781610751544
Related ISBN(s)
9781557288813
MARC Record
OCLC
787842845
Pages
132
Launched on MUSE
2013-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
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