Title

Definition of the soul : poems / by John Skoyles.

Author

Skoyles, John.

Publication

Pittsburgh : Carnegi Mellon University Press, 1998.

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Details

Description

61 pages; 21 cm

Contents

Definition of the Soul -- Marina -- New Year -- Poor Everyone -- A Bird in the Sky -- A Winter Day -- The End of August -- Beacon Hill -- Black Slash -- A Bundle of Tulips -- Destiny -- After Surgery -- Mop String -- Unlucky Corner -- MidLife -- From a Skyscraper -- The Lost Parrot -- Elegy for Munro Moore -- Fishing at Dusk -- Fathers at a Little League Game -- Harry's Train -- First Snow -- Hyannis Harbor in Winter -- Without Warning -- The Tears of Mary Magdalene -- History -- Ancestors -- The Burned Boy -- Little God -- Cleaning Out a Desk -- Long Winter -- On Love -- Life Itself -- G 42 -- On a Porch -- John Martin's Sister -- If He Hadn't -- Patron of the Impossible.

ISBN

• 0887482600
• 0887482619 (pbk)

OCLC

ocm38563461

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries