Research Catalog

Title

Autumn rhythm : new and selected poems / Leon Stokesbury.

Author

Stokesbury, Leon, 1945-

Publication

Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 1996.

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Details

Description

x, 127 pages; 25 cm

Summary

• In this selection of poems written over thirty years, Leon Stokesbury careens through the Maple Leaf Bar and the Restaurant-on-the-Corner, Oklahoma City and Fairbanks, Alaska, consuming and offering up his sweet-and-sour vision of our lot in life. Whether he comes at us in masks as varied as his father and mother, Nick Bottom or John Keats, Senor Wences or Owen Glendower, it is his own Cheshire grin we spy creeping out around the edges.
• He readily sees the horror in the death of a New Orleans poet, in his own brother's sufferings, in the inescapable process of mutability itself, but he finds also, often enough, the dark joke at the center of things and the chance for redemptive laughter.
• With each turn of Stokesbury's kaleidoscopic vision, the reader is presented another pattern, cut from the same true glass but completely new and fully realized. The mystery of what it all adds up to gives these poems their strange sparkle. Whether in his own deeply personal voice or in the multitude of idioms from which he is able to draw - southern, midwestern, ShakespeareanStokesbury creates whole landscapes in perfected, formal lines from the shards of memories and dreams.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• Fall -- An Inkling -- Evening's End -- The Garden Path -- The Royal Nonesuch -- Felliniesque -- Jaques Lured by Audrey -- Bottom's Dream -- Glendower Ponders the Vasty Deep -- Reynaldo in Paris -- Pro Quo/Fortuna's Fool -- I Greet You/Morte D'Arthur -- Room with a View/Primer Litter -- Old Times There/Homework -- Dark Blurb of the Soul -- For My Daughter -- The Legacy -- Lauds -- City Lights -- Autumn Rhythm -- The Pear -- Ready to Satisfy All Your Bereavement Needs -- This Print of Durer's -- Little Keats Soliloquy -- Often in Different Landscapes -- The Murder of Gonzago and His Friends -- What It Feels Like to Live in This Country to Me -- Footlight Parade -- California -- What the New Chef Said -- To Laura Phelan: 1880-1906 -- Song of the Incredible Lonzo -- But Once in Special -- Gifts -- Religious Poem -- On the Comeback Trail -- Why I Find Myself Immersed in Few Traditions -- The Zany -- The Lamar Tech Football Team Has Won Its Game -- East Texas --
• To All Those Considering Coming to Fayetteville -- Summer in Fairbanks -- The North Slope -- The Polar Bear -- To His Book -- Unsent Message to My Brother in His Pain -- Day Begins at Governor's Square Mall -- Adventures in Bronze -- If I Could Open You -- The Luncheon of the Boating Party -- The Lover Remembereth Such as He Sometime Enjoyed and Showeth How He Would Like to Enjoy Her Again -- Morning Song -- Semi-Sentimental Thank You Note Sent over a Long Distance -- A Skeptical View of the Tarot -- This Other -- A Funny Joke -- The Drifting Away of All We Once Held Essential -- A Few Words for Frank Stanford: 1948-1978 -- Airport Bars -- Robert Rickert Wrote Back -- Chance of Showers -- The Party's End -- Senor Wences and the Man in the Box.

ISBN

• 1557284377 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 1557284385 (paper : alk. paper)

LCCN

95052060

OCLC

• 33897612
• ocm33897612

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries