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Summer lake : new and selected poems

Title
Summer lake : new and selected poems / David Huddle.
Author
Huddle, David, 1942-
Publication
Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 1999.

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Description
xi, 172 pages; 24 cm.
Summary
  • "The collection opens with a plainness of language and form born of the poet's native Blue Ridge Mountains and builds to an amalgamation of free and formal variety, including sonnets and a lengthy poem in terza rima. It pauses over vivid childhood moments, visits the wounds from a "Tour of Duty" in Vietnam, and enters into that passage of deep adulthood during which one's parents fall ill and die. These are ordinary life events, rendered with uncanny penetration.
  • At times the poems are openly, even angrily, despairing. When all is said and done, though, the last two lines of the book are "my mother cooking supper / my father whistling as he walked home from work.""--BOOK JACKET.
Series Statement
Southern messenger poets
Uniform Title
Southern messenger poets.
Contents
  • Town History -- Holes Commence Falling -- My Daddy, Whenever He Went Some Place -- Delivering the Times, 1952-1955 -- Gregory's House -- Drowning -- Miss Florence Jackson -- Jeep Alley, Emperor of Baseball -- Janie Swecker and Me and Gone with the Wind -- My Brother, Beautiful Shinault, That Goat -- What Pig Clemons Told My Mother -- Mrs. Green -- Shooting Crows -- Threshing Wheat -- Evening Services Every Fourth Sunday -- My Brother Flies over Low -- Going, 1960-1970 -- Gifts -- Tour of Duty -- Nerves -- Theory -- Smoke -- Work -- Bac Ha -- Haircut -- Beer -- R&R -- Words -- Them -- Cousin -- Vermont -- Album -- Music -- The Field -- The House -- Two Facts -- The Front Yard -- Porches -- Groceries in the Front Seat -- A History of the Pets -- Dr. Zeno's Laboratory -- The School -- Croquet -- Icicle -- Kitchen Tables -- Sunday Dinner -- Coda -- Stopping by Home -- Things I Know, Things I Don't -- Local Metaphysics -- Eastern Standard -- Study --
  • The Nature of Yearning -- Inside the Hummingbird Aviary -- The Snow Monkey Argues with God -- Love and Art -- Upstairs Hallway, 5 A.M. -- Close -- Catch -- Thinking About My Father -- Summer Lake -- Mother Encounters Monkey at the Post Office -- Why I Like Opera -- Men's Sauna -- Military Parachuting Exercise -- Two-Joke Man -- Two -- Confessions -- The Fall as I Have Known It -- The Uncles -- Picture -- Model Father -- Ooly Pop a Cow -- Dogs & My Mother -- Basket -- The Episodes -- Closing Down Her House -- A Brief History of My Mother's Temper -- Writing About Her -- Minor Suite -- Never Been -- So Long.
ISBN
  • 0807123811 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 080712382X (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
99014899
OCLC
ocm41049439
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries