Local Knowledge Poems

Name: Local Knowledge Poems
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ISBN: 9780393322217

ISBN-10: 0393322211

ISBN-13: 9780393322217

Edition: 2005

Authors: B. H. Fairchild

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An early collection by the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. Although many of the poems here unfold among the small towns, abandoned farms, and slate skies of the rural Midwest, their larger landscape is the sheer fact--geographical, psychological, metaphysical--of "absences like so many lighted windows as you walk through a strange city, wanting to fill them with imaginary lives and words and stories."

Book details

List price: $17.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/17/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 106
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.30" long x 0.40" tall
Weight: 0.308
Language: English



In Czechoslovakia


In a cafe near Tuba City, Arizona, beating my head against a cigarette machine


Language, nonsense, desire


There is constant movement in my head


Maize


Child and dwarf


In another life I encounter my father


The woman at the laundromat crying "mercy"


The machinist, teaching his daughter to play the piano


The march of the suicides


The Doppler effect


The Robinson Hotel


Toban's precision machine shop


Strength


Speaking the names


The last days


Fire and water


The messengers


Local knowledge


Kansas


Saipan


December, 1986


My mother's dreams


Photograph of a college football team, 1927


The structures of everyday life


Michael Blum cuts his brother's hair


The soliloquy of the appliance repairman


Sheets


Work


Angels


Dust storm


The city of God


West Texas


The drunk foreman


L'Attente


Afterword : lathework