Made Thing : An Anthology of Contemporary Southern Poetry

Name: Made Thing : An Anthology of Contemporary Southern Poetry
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ISBN: 9780938626787

ISBN-10: 0938626787

ISBN-13: 9780938626787

Edition: 1st

Authors: Leon Stokesbury

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List price: $18.00
Edition: 1st
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 350
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

Preface
My Answer	p. 3
By His Appearance in San Diego, Gerald Ford Recalls the Bringing Together of Father and Son	p. 5
Gift of the Guest	p. 5
Us, Here, Ruled	p. 7
Roller Rink	p. 8
Walking Out	p. 9
Twentieth Anniversary	p. 10
Southbound	p. 11
Stable	p. 13
Plagues	p. 14
Cleaning the Graves	p. 15
My Grandfather's Funeral	p. 16
White Lake	p. 18
Marriage Portrait	p. 18
Barbecue Service	p. 20
Economics	p. 21
How It's Done	p. 22
Silence	p. 22
Gift	p. 23
"I had a terror - since September"	p. 24
Two Figures on Canvas	p. 24
Portraits	p. 25
What More?	p. 25
Body Food	p. 27
The Wild Horses of Assateague Island	p. 28
Watching TV, the Elk Bones Up on Metaphysics	p. 29
The Elk on Mutability	p. 30
The Elk Uncovers the Heavens	p. 31
The Peace of Wild Things	p. 32
To Know the Dark	p. 33
The Grandmother	p. 33
Grief	p. 34
Under the Boathouse	p. 35
The Boy Shepherds' Simile	p. 36
Sign for My Father, Who Stressed the Bunt	p. 37
The Desk	p. 38
Under the Vulture-Tree	p. 40
Allatoona Evening	p. 41
Aphasia	p. 42
Namesake	p. 44
Mother Land	p. 45
Groceries	p. 45
Orchids	p. 46
Learning How to Pray	p. 48
Novas	p. 49
Departure	p. 51
Lying on a Bridge	p. 51
The Man in the Rain	p. 52
Preserves	p. 53
No News at All	p. 54
Subplot	p. 55
A Prayer to Sleep	p. 56
One Reason for Stars	p. 57
U-24 Anchors off New Orleans (1938)	p. 58
Professionals	p. 59
Flying Friendly Skies	p. 60
Berlin-to-Bagdad (Constantinople, 1876)	p. 61
My Grandmother Washes Her Feet	p. 62
Cleaning the Well	p. 66
My Grandmother Washes Her Vessels	p. 69
Second Wind	p. 71
My Mother Shoots the Breeze	p. 75
My Father Washes His Hands	p. 77
Narcissus and Echo	p. 79
Ars Poetica	p. 80
For the Spreading Laurel Tree	p. 81
The Tempest	p. 82
Disjunction	p. 83
Farewell to the Maiden	p. 84
The Heaven of Animals	p. 85
The Hospital Window	p. 87
In the Mountain Tent	p. 89
Cherrylog Road	p. 90
The Shark's Parlor	p. 93
The Sheep Child	p. 95
Falling	p. 97
False Youth: Autumn: Clothes of the Age	p. 102
The Mullins Farm	p. 103
Meditation for a Pickle Suite	p. 105
Mr. Turnbill to the Loggerheads	p. 106
Talismans	p. 108
The Magi	p. 109
Revival	p. 110
Bubbles	p. 111
York Harbor Morning	p. 112
Buzzard	p. 113
The Onion	p. 114
Invisible Work	p. 115
Country Woman Elegy	p. 116
Body Bags	p. 117
Approaching a Significant Birthday, He Peruses The Norton Anthology of Poetry	p. 119
Among Philistines	p. 120
1-800	p. 122
The Denouement	p. 123
Maybe Dats Your Pwoblem Too	p. 124
White Trash	p. 125
Preposterous	p. 126
At the Piano	p. 127
Where the River Jordan Ends	p. 128
The Southern Crescent Was On Time	p. 129
Around the Campfire	p. 131
Burial Detail	p. 133
Heat Lightning in a Time of Drought	p. 135
Inner Ear	p. 138
The Beating	p. 140
What Shines in Winter Burns	p. 141
Where You Go When She Sleeps	p. 143
Zeitgeist Lightning	p. 144
Mechanics	p. 145
After Disappointment	p. 147
Unholy Sonnet #2	p. 148
Questions for Ecclesiastes	p. 148
Stars	p. 151
Sweep	p. 152
The Mosquito	p. 154
The First Birth	p. 155
A Blasphemy	p. 156
One of the Citizens	p. 157
Sonnet: The Poet at Seven	p. 159
In Bertram's Garden	p. 160
Heart	p. 160
Men at Forty	p. 161
First Death	p. 162
Tremayne	p. 164
There Is a Gold Light in Certain Old Paintings	p. 166
Thinking About the Past	p. 167
He Sees Through Stone	p. 168
The Warden Said to Me the Other Day	p. 169
As You Leave Me	p. 170
We Never Know	p. 171
Ia Drang Valley	p. 172
Saigon Bar Girls, 1975	p. 173
Facing It	p. 174
The Apple Pickers' Children	p. 175
Invisible Men	p. 177
Some Notes on Courage	p. 178
The Widow	p. 179
Man Arrested in Hacking Death Tells Police He Mistook Mother-in-Law for Raccoon	p. 181
The Punishment	p. 182
Jeanne d'Arc	p. 183
After Thirty Octobers	p. 184
The Great Man's Death: An Anecdote	p. 185
Breakfast	p. 186
Style	p. 186
The Miracle	p. 187
Disaster Poem	p. 188
1941	p. 189
Elegy for the Other	p. 190
Never in My Life	p. 196
Hauling Over Wolf Creek Pass in Winter	p. 198
Starting a Pasture	p. 199
Crossing the Road	p. 201
Story	p. 202
How We Live	p. 203
On Catalpa Street	p. 203
Tap Water	p. 204
Twila Jo and the Wrestler	p. 205
Closing the House	p. 207
Hanging Burley	p. 208
Squirrel Stand	p. 208
The Hungry Dead	p. 209
Reciprocity	p. 210
Beside a Deathbed	p. 211
Bout with Burning	p. 211
from Love's Bitten Tongue: 1. "Lord, hush this ego as one stops a bell"	p. 212
from Love's Bitten Tongue: 2. "Of praying may (in mercy become prayer)"	p. 212
Pity	p. 213
Motel	p. 214
Rituals Along the Arkansas	p. 214
The Necessity of Falling	p. 216
Nightride, 1965	p. 217
The Touch	p. 218
In the Kingdom of the Air	p. 219
Last Words	p. 220
The Hollow	p. 221
Mountain Bride	p. 222
Death Crown	p. 223
Walnutry	p. 224
Passenger Pigeons	p. 225
The Gift of Tongues	p. 226
A History of Silk	p. 227
Eulogy for a Snake Handler Killed By a Canebrake	p. 229
New Year	p. 232
Sure	p. 233
The Traveling Onion	p. 235
Hello	p. 235
Going for Peaches, Fredericksburg, Texas	p. 237
The Wastrel-Woman Poem	p. 239
Thelma	p. 241
"In These Houses of Swift Easy Women"	p. 242
Portrait	p. 242
Hot Bath in an Old Hotel	p. 247
Middle Age	p. 248
In Order to Perceive	p. 249
Concepts and Their Bodies (The Body in the Field Alone)	p. 251
A Giant Has Swallowed the Earth	p. 252
The Possible Salvation of Continuous Motion	p. 253
Achieving Perspective	p. 254
Discovering Your Subject	p. 255
Finding the Tattooed Lady in the Garden	p. 256
Rolling Naked in the Morning Dew	p. 257
Polio	p. 259
The Visitor	p. 260
Lost Letter to James Wright, With Thanks for a Map of Fano	p. 260
Basil	p. 262
For a Suicide, a Little Early Morning Music	p. 262
Postscript to an Elegy	p. 264
A Vacant Lot	p. 264
The Manuel	p. 266
The Brother-in-Law	p. 267
Dinner at the Mongoloid's	p. 267
It All Comes Together Outside the Restroom in Hogansville	p. 268
When Our Voices Broke Off	p. 269
Clouds over Islands	p. 271
Heads of Fire	p. 272
After the Game	p. 274
My Parents' Wedding	p. 275
The Palms	p. 276
The Roundhouse Voices	p. 277
Sailing the Back River	p. 280
Rain Forest	p. 281
An Antipastoral Memory of One Summer	p. 282
Descending	p. 283
Making a Statement	p. 284
Watching the News After the Tornados	p. 285
A Lament for the Dead Pets of Out Childhood	p. 286
A Postcard from Greece	p. 287
Inventory	p. 288
Death and Memory	p. 290
Between Love and Death	p. 291
Island Funeral	p. 292
Allegory of Death and Night	p. 292
The Light the Dead See	p. 293
Evening's End	p. 295
To Laura Phelan: 1880-1906	p. 299
Day Begins at Governor's Square Mall	p. 300
Senor Wences and the Man in the Box	p. 302
The Girl in the Hall	p. 304
Death	p. 305
After Love	p. 306
Early Sunday Morning	p. 306
Taking to the Woods	p. 308
The Way It Sometimes Is	p. 311
At the Grave of E. A. Robinson	p. 312
As on a Darkling Plain	p. 312
At the Swings	p. 313
In Memory of Brother Dave Gardner	p. 315
Rain	p. 316
We Kept Missing Each Other	p. 317
Convergence	p. 319
Envoi	p. 320
Farm Wife	p. 321
Jug Brook	p. 322
Daughter	p. 323
Sweet Everlasting	p. 323
Landscape, Dense with Trees	p. 324
The Lotus Flowers	p. 325
The Farmer	p. 327
The Last Class	p. 328
My Husband Says	p. 330
Your Soul Shines	p. 331
Even As I Hold You	p. 332
Tell Me a Story	p. 333
The Spider	p. 334
Sister Water	p. 335
Last Laugh	p. 336
Evening Hour	p. 337
Heat Lightning	p. 338
What Voice at Moth-Hour	p. 340
Heart of Autumn	p. 341
The Clay Eaters	p. 342
Dr. Ezekiel MacAllister, Missionary to the Heathen, Delivers A Film Lecture at the Sunday Night Service of the First Methodist Church, Selma, Alabama	p. 343
A Local Man Goes to the Killing Ground	p. 345
A Local Man Remembers Betty Fuller	p. 346
A Local Contractor Flees His Winter Trouble and Saves Some Lives in a Knoxville Motel Room	p. 346
Long Tour: the Country Music Star Explains Why He Put off the Bus and Fired a Good Lead Guitar in West Texas	p. 347
A Natural Theology	p. 348
A Poem for My Humerus	p. 348
For My Father at Eighty	p. 350
The Caterpillar	p. 351
Why God Permits Evil: For Answers to This Question of Interest to Many Write Bible Answers Dept. E-7	p. 353
Ruby Tells All	p. 355
On a Photograph of My Mother at Seventeen	p. 356
A Poem for Emily	p. 357
The Aging Actress Sees Herself a Starlet on the Late Show	p. 358
The Curator	p. 359
Jonathan Confronts the Question	p. 361
Obedience of the Corpse	p. 362
Tours	p. 363
Birth of the Cool	p. 363
Slag	p. 364
More Blues and the Abstract Truth	p. 364
April	p. 366
Cloud River	p. 367
Clear Night	p. 367
October	p. 368
Arkansas Traveller	p. 368
The Other Side of the River	p. 371
Umbrian Dreams	p. 374
Index of Titles	p. 375
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