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Title

The thread : new and selected poems / Stephen Sandy.

Author

Sandy, Stephen.

Publication

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [1998], ©1998.

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Details

Description

viii, 205 pages; 24 cm

Summary

• In this collection, Stephen Sandy gathers his most striking poems from five previous books written over thirty-five years and adds memorable new ones to present a retrospective on his career to date. Sandy has lived in some of the world's great urban centers and captures in these poems essential vibrations of modern and postmodern life.
• While Sandy's poems address timeless issues, they also take up recent occurrences, including the passage of the Hale-Bopp comet and the deaths of Allen Ginsberg and Gianni Versace. A poet of wit and loss, he is deeply involved with the challenge to faith in our time; he writes out of the Western tradition in terms that are deeply tinged with Eastern thinking.

Contents

• Wild Ducks -- The Woolworth Philodendron -- Hunter's Moon -- Hiawatha -- The Circular in the Post Office -- The Destruction of Bulfinch's House -- Can -- Her River -- Celtic Law -- Watersheds -- New England Graveyard -- A Dissolve -- Light in Spring Poplars -- Stresses in the Peaceable Kingdom -- Et Quid Amabo Nisi Quod Aenigma Est -- Home from the Range -- Wintering in a Building Once an Ice-House -- Roofs -- November Larches -- A Short Account of the Japanese -- Prince Genji's Dance and Triumph -- Work -- Intersections -- Mr. Reed of Martha's Vineyard -- Post Card, Moss Garden -- Student Letter -- Charley -- Moving Out -- Suburb -- Shore -- From the Fastest Train -- End of the Picaro -- At Peaks Island -- Flight of Steps -- Some Flowers -- In the Dakotas -- Tom and Henry, Camping Out -- Mithuna -- Nativity -- A Little Yard -- Condensation -- Survivor, Walking -- Perfect -- Northway Tanka -- Declension -- Oyster Cove -- Balance -- The Austin Tower --
• Nothing, Nothing at All -- Bridge of Abandonment -- The Last of the Wallendas -- Letter from Stony Creek -- Ray's Garden Shop -- The Heart's Desire of Americans -- Egyptian Onions -- Command Performance -- The White Oak of Eagle Bridge -- from Last Days at York Manor -- Station 41 -- After a City Shower -- Dinner for Two -- Cabbage Days -- Allegheny Front -- Hesitation at Veterans Home -- Thatch -- Man in the Open Air -- Spider -- American Light -- Words for Dr. Richards -- Christo's Fence -- Earth Day Story -- Beachcomber -- The Tack -- A Bomboo Brushpot -- Abandoned Houses South of Stafford -- Place and Fame -- Trifid -- Tyros -- Gulf Memo -- The Second Law -- Father and the Minneapolis Chacmool -- Walking from Grasmere -- To a Mantis -- Thanksgiving Over the Water -- Fort Burial -- On the Street -- Around Our Table -- Mother's Day -- Threads -- Downstairs My Son -- Mogadishu Mon Amour -- Watching the Purge -- A Common -- Hard By -- Forked Animal --
• A Walk-In Orrery -- Hogback Lookout -- The Change -- Mexican Head -- The World -- Photo of Melville; Back Room, Old Bookstore -- Elixir -- The News and the Weather. Exotica. Denny. Span. Albiani's. The Landscapes of Rubens. Travertine. Astray. Overhead. On First Looking for Hale-Bopp. Force of Nature -- Four Corners, Vermont -- The Water Spider.

ISBN

• 0807122572 (alk. paper)
• 0807122580 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

97047291

OCLC

• 38024103
• ocm38024103

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries