Research Catalog

Title

The wick of memory : new and selected poems, 1974-2000 / [Dave Smith].

Author

Smith, Dave, 1942-

Publication

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2000.

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Details

Description

215 pages; 23 cm

Contents

• The History of the Queen City Hotel -- Pulling a Pig's Tail -- Boy with Ringworm -- Mighty Joe Turner -- Basement Waltz -- A Language -- Night Pleasures -- Black Silhouettes of Shrimpers -- Two Dreams -- Little Ode to the Wheelchair Boys -- On the Job -- Red Dog -- In Memory of Hollis Summers -- Floaters -- The Mourner's Line -- Wish for an Unknown Daughter -- A Married Woman -- The Villeroy & Boch Shop -- Planting -- New Orleans Engagement -- No Stars on the Water -- Arising -- Fiddlers -- Old Country -- Wreck in the Woods -- A Lay of Spring -- Blowfish and Mudtoad -- The Gods in My Belly -- The Louisiana Sea of Faith -- Elegy for My Friend's Suit -- Nine Ball -- Almost at Sea -- Making a Statement -- Boys in the Square at Bologna -- Lunch -- Fantastic Pelicans Arrive -- Audubon and Cha Cha -- Nature Moment -- Another Nature Moment -- Daily Messenger -- Wreckage at Lake Pontchartrain -- Water Pitcher -- Palm Trees at 1430 Knollwood Drive --
• One Hundred Twenty-Nine Dollars -- Irish Whiskey in the Backyard -- The Penumbral Legacy of Huey P. Long -- Quail -- Stalled on the Ebb Tide -- Canary Weather in Virginia -- A Gift for Seamus -- Descending -- Writing Spider -- Crab House -- 2000 -- Treading Clams at Egg Island -- Pillage -- Welders -- Lake Drummond Dream -- On Looking into Neruda's Memoirs -- Camellias -- Cuba Night -- A Pinto Mare -- Gargoyle -- The Roundhouse Voices -- Harpers Ferry -- An Antipastoral Memory of One Summer -- The Chesapeake & Ohio Canal -- Guinea Hens -- Skunked -- Kitchen Windows -- Night Traffic near Winchester, Virginia -- Photograph of a Confederate Soldier Standing on Rocks in the James River at Richmond -- Ironclad -- Leafless Trees, Chickahominy Swamp -- Caravati's Salvage: Richmond -- Photographic Plate, Partly Spidered, Hampton Roads, Virginia, with Model T Ford Mid-Channel -- Of Oystermen, Workboats -- Smithfield Ham --
• Snapshot of a Crab-Picker, among Barrels Spilling Over, Apparently at the End of Her Shift -- Bats -- Turn-of-the-Century House -- House Movers -- In the House of the Judge -- Desks -- Pond -- Homage to Edgar Allan Poe -- Wedding Song -- Reading the Books Our Children Have Written -- Elegy in an Abandoned Boatyard -- The Tire Hangs in the Yard -- The Pornography Box -- The Color of Our Age: Pink and Black -- Tide Pools -- Goshawk, Antelope -- Under the Scrub Oak, a Red Shoe -- Hawktree -- Waking among Horses -- August, on the Rented Farm -- Waving -- A Moment of Small Pillagers -- The Dark Eyes of Daughters -- Pine Cones -- Rain Forest -- On a Field Trip at Fredericksburg -- Blues for Benny "Kid" Paret -- How to Get to Green Springs -- Cumberland Station -- The Spring Poem -- Boats -- The Perspective & Limits of Snapshots -- Night Fishing for Blues -- The Fisherman's Whore -- Near the Docks -- Oyster Boats at Plum Tree Cove -- The Shark in the Rafters --
• Rooster Smith's Last Log Canoe -- Hammy's Boat Circling through the Moon -- March Storm, Poquoson, Virginia, 1963 -- Lael's Song.

ISBN

• 0807125482 (alk. paper)
• 0807125490 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

99089440

OCLC

• 43186044
• ocm43186044
• SCSB-3863563

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries