Research Catalog

Title

Black box : poems / Stephen Sandy.

Author

Sandy, Stephen.

Publication

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 1999.

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Details

Description

ix, 110 pages; 24 cm

Summary

In this buoyant new collection, poet Stephen Sandy offers a splendid array of recent work, taking a celebratory, wryly transgressive stance. While remaining a poet of severe and compassionate observation, he adopts a mode of startling meditations, thoughtful and cheerful at once. His poems remark on the challenges we face, but they also sing inwardly, with a knowledge of choices made and convictions kept.

Contents

• Daphnis and Chloe -- Late Cretaceous Reverie -- Pastel Evidence -- Finished Country -- Omelette Panache -- My Place -- Pretzel -- Great Plains Dooryard -- A Standing Egg -- Glossolalia -- Mammal Pavilion -- These Vineyards, These Farms -- Far Be It From Me -- The Awkward Age -- Going for a Song -- Garden Wall -- Field and Stream -- Maiden Voyage -- Petering -- Danger, Men Cooking -- Faustina -- Brain Decade -- Epistle to Andrew -- Party Line -- A Measure of Things -- Second Epistle to Andrew -- This Just In -- Pursuit -- Detention Period -- Blue Map -- Wednesday -- Air Power Suite -- What Can You Say -- But Then -- These Things in a Green Tree -- If Winter Comes -- Not So Fast -- Living History -- And Evening Came -- Mrs. Woolf Listens to Her New Phonograph -- Touching Base -- Character as Fate -- Iron Verity -- Pirandello, Pirandello -- Cleaning the Clock -- Synapse -- Not Visiting the Dalai Lama -- By Cold Field, by Wall --
• For Julia, with a Jar of Lupines -- Grounds -- Value Added -- Mysteries of Udolpho -- The Day Van Gogh Vanished -- Among Bikers -- Diva -- Essential Reward -- Blue Perennial Border -- Introduced Ornamentals -- Bombazine, Winter Weight -- True Sand -- Your Nickel -- Crow -- Ruling Passion -- Receding Whistle -- Next World Order -- Collectible Card -- My Nickel -- Marrow Spoon -- Marse Chan, Tracer of Lost Persons -- Tacit Blue -- The Nipple as a Seamark for Homer -- Down on the Levee -- Night Landing -- Second Adulthood -- Falling Asleep over James Schuyler -- Lagniappe -- Deep Pockets -- Small Wonder -- Roaring Spring.

ISBN

• 0807123684 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0807123692 (paper : alk. paper)

LCCN

98051113

OCLC

ocm40396003

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries