The sawdust war : poems / by Jim Barnes.

Author
Barnes, Jim, 1933- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [1992]
  • ©1992
Description
117 pages ; 21 cm

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    Poetry from Illinois [More in this series]
    Summary note
    "Few poets in America today can write as solemnly and truthfully as Jim Barnes about the heritage of America, a heritage as wide as the continent itself. Jim Barnes's aesthetic is vivid throughout these poems. A high sense of loss pervades the book, but Barnes's strong-willed persona never regrets what has passed. Instead, the persona gains strength from it. What has come to be his signature in four earlier books of poetry and remains his mark in The Sawdust War is essentially where his art lies: a strong sense of loss, of redemption coming out of loss, of place both geographical and spiritual"--Back cover.
    Contents
    • The Sawdust War
    • Under the Tent
    • The Tower, 1945
    • Near the Top
    • The Cabin on Nanny Ridge
    • On Hearing the News That Hitler Was Dead
    • The Ranch, Wild Horse Canyon, 1943
    • Night Flight
    • At a Crossing, Somewhere in Ulster
    • Military Burial, Summerfield Cemetery: A Late Eulogy
    • 25726350: Night, the Plain of Jars, and Dying
    • Remembering Hiroshima and Propaganda
    • For Roland, Presumed Taken
    • Snowbound at the Bar 2, below Winding Stair Mountain, 1943
    • Postcard to Kaz from Somewhere South of Allah
    • Around the Cow Pond
    • Skipping
    • Written during the Funeral of Hirohito
    • Legacy of Bones
    • After the Great Plains
    • Wolf Watch: Winding Stair Mountain, 1923
    • Driving through Missouri
    • Postcard to Alain-Andre Jourdier from the Longhorn Bar in Kirksville, Missouri
    • The Poor Fox
    • Fourche Maline Bottoms
    • Postcard to Brian Bedard from Somewhere on the Illinois, Near Tahlequah, Oklahoma
    • The Planting
    • The Garden
    • Crow White
    • Crow's Firesticks
    • Postcard to Mark Theriac from Taos, near Kit Carson's Grave
    • Drinking 3.2 at Mountain Top Tavern
    • Mali Chito
    • Postcard to James Welch in Missoula
    • Hogging below the Gates at Wister Dam
    • Elegies for John Berryman and Others
    • Elegies for John Berryman
    • Le Louvre
    • You know Who You Are: This Is for You, My Friend
    • Shaving the Dead
    • International Student Union Coffee Shop: Ramadan, after the Bomb Threat
    • Looking for Le Bosquet, Oklahoma
    • Postcard to Terence Moser in Exile
    • Vesperal
    • Soliloquy in My Forty-seventh Year
    • After the Funeral
    • In Another Country
    • Castello di Vezio, above Varenna
    • Above Bellagio, Looking North to Varenna
    • The Boats at Pescallo
    • In Another Country: A Suite for the Villa Serbelloni
    • The Frati: Crypt, Chapel, Oboe
    • The Monks of Villa Serbelloni.
    ISBN
    • 0252062396 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
    • 9780252062391 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
    LCCN
    91027043
    OCLC
    24173522
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