Steal Away Selected and New Poems

Name: Steal Away Selected and New Poems
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ISBN: 9781556591945

ISBN-10: 1556591942

ISBN-13: 9781556591945

Edition: 2003

Authors: C. D. Wright

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Now in paperback, Steal Away presents C.D. Wright's best lyrics, narratives, prose poems, and odes with new "retablos" and a bracing vigil on incarceration. Long admired as a fearless poet writing authentically erotic verse, Wright-with her Southern accent and cinematic eye-couples strangeness with uncanny accuracy to create poems that "offer a once-and-for-all thing, opaque and revelatory, ceaselessly burning." from "Our Dust" You didn't know my weariness, error, incapacity, I was the poet of shadow work and towns with quarter-inch phone books, of failed roadside zoos. The poet of yard eggs and sharpening shops, jobs at the weapons plant and the Maybelline factory on the…

Book details

List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Publication date: 9/1/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.50" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.968
Language: English



Rosesucker Retablo #1


Rosesucker Retablo #2


Rosesucker Retablo #3


Alla Breve Loving


The Secret Life of Musical Instruments


Bent Tones


Tours


Blazes


Libretto


Clockmaker with Bad Eyes


Obedience of the Corpse


The night before the sentence is carried out


Vanish


Wanderer in His Thirtieth Year


Handfishing Retablo #1


Handfishing Retablo #2


Handfishing Retablo #3


Handfishing Retablo #4


Wages of Love


Provinces


Treatment


The Cinematographer's Faro Island Log


Hotels


Elements of Night


Lapse


Scratch Music


Illuminations


This Couple


Petition for Replenishment


Two Hearts in a Forest


Further Adventures with You


Floating Lady Retablo #1


Floating Lady Retablo #2


Floating Lady Retablo #3


King's Daughters, Home for Unwed Mothers, 1948


More Blues and the Abstract Truth


Remarks on Color


The Night I Met Little Floyd


Why Ralph Refuses to Dance


Our Dust


Humidity


The Body's Temperature at Rest


Personals


Planks


Utopia


Toward the Woods


What No One Could Have Told Them


Detail from What No One Could Have Told Them


Old Man with a Dog


Living


Weekend in the Country


The Next to Last Draft


Self Portrait on a Rocky Mount


The Ozark Odes


a valentine


Floating Trees


Approximately Forever


So Far Off and Yet Here


Like Peaches


With Grass as Their Witness


Because Fulfillment Awaits


Autographs


And It Came to Pass


Girl Friend


Sonic Relations


Various Positions


The Shepherd of Resumed Desire


Oneness


Gift of the Book


Girl Friend Poem #2


A Series of Actions


Song of the Gourd


Lake Echo, Dear


On the Beach


What Keeps


Key Episodes from an Earthly Life


Girl Friend Poem #3


In a Piercing and Sucking Species


Crescent


Everything Good between Men and Women


Girl Friend Poem #4


The Iris Admits the Light the Iris Will Allow


Like Someone Driving to Texas by Herself


Morning Star


Like Rocks


Privacy


Girl Friend Poem #5


Ponds, in Love


Like Horses


Flame


Girl Friend Poem #6


Girl Friends #7-10


from Deepstep Come Shining


Prisoners of Louisiana


Index


About the Author