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Subject(s)

• Marginality, Social—Poetry [Browse]
• Loss (Psychology)—Poetry [Browse]
• Working class—United States—Poetry [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Series

• Carnegie Mellon poetry [More in this series]
• [Carnegie Mellon University Press poetry series]

Summary note

"Powerful poems about men and women at the margins. Dark Harvest showcases two decades of Joseph Millar's finest poetic work, including his beloved and award-winning poems centered on the unseen men and women at the margins of American life. Millar's poems don't favor beauty over suffering, nor do they reach for knowledge over mystery--instead, his words carry forward their Whitmanic imperatives: to turn away from nothing, to be awash in contradictions.''-- Provided by publisher.

Contents

• from Overtime (2001). Telephone repair man
• Names I'd forgotten
• Fiber optics
• Spanish blues
• Outside Monterey
• Midlife
• Selling out at the top of the world
• Sole custody
• Heart attack
• My father and Thomas Wyatt in Herka's Bar
• Poem for a new girlfriend
• Hansen and Gretel's father
• Dark harvest
• Love pirates
• Waking up after reading Proust
• from Fortune (2007). Feeding Tristem's snake
• Hansen and Gretel's father explains
• Junkyard
• Environmentalist
• Mystery trap
• Middle age
• Tools
• Harriet Matthias Wickersham
• Fall night
• Red wing
• Caroling
• Fortune
• Potter's field
• Slow hands
• Lyrical
• American wedding
• Poem for Rembrandt
• A love supreme
• from Blue rust (2012). Nativity
• Donut shop jukebox
• Year of the ox
• Romance
• Ode to ear
• Divorce
• The Dutch roll
• Urban coyote
• Kiski flats
• Lorca in California
• Blow job cole slaw
• Half made
• For Weldon Kees
• Day of the dead
• Nightbound
• Ocean
• from Kingdom (2017). Time-poem
• Muse
• Semi-retired
• One day
• Courtly
• Ronnie: 1954-2013
• Field
• Language
• The poetry-body
• Girlfriends
• Eclipse
• Oxygen and Acetylene
• Why women live longer
• Night
• Valentine
• Patience
• Artist colony
• End of the world
• New poems. Pablo and me
• Corvus
• Some days
• Forgiveness
• Fayetteville Street
• Mistletoe
• Meadow
• Ventriloquist
• Venetian siesta
• Epithalamion
• Memorial Day mediation
• Masks
• Affluence.

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ISBN

• 088748672X
• 9780887486722

OCLC

1241245603

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