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Waiting for sweet Betty
- Title
- Waiting for sweet Betty / Clarence Major.
- Author
- Major, Clarence.
- Publication
- Port Townsend, Wash. : Copper Canyon Press, [2002], ©2002.
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Details
- Description
- viii, 101 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- "An accomplished painter as well as a singularly gifted poet, Clarence Major has said that he writes what he cannot paint. With a painter's eye and an ear for the nuances of daily speech, his new poems explore subtle exchanges, juxtaposing one shifting perspective with another. Major's poems look deeply into the very process of making art, into the imagination and the heart of its creation, and in Waiting for Sweet Betty they reveal a celebrated poet writing at the height of his powers."--BOOK JACKET.
- Contents
- San Diego and Matisse -- Mendocino -- Rock and a Hard Place -- Vizcaino -- Art Is Parallel to Nature -- From the Train Window Going and Coming -- Winter in Northern California -- Summer Place: Cambria -- Habitat: Time and Place -- Gathering Mushrooms: Cambria -- Shoreline at Cambria -- Moon and Moonlight (at Cambria) -- Purple California Mountains -- The Lay of the Land -- Unknown Harbor -- Before and After -- Chinatown Blues -- The Purchase -- Van Gogh's Death -- Rembrandt's Etching of a Woman Pissing -- Portrait of the Great White Hunter Foxhunting in the Absence of Big Game -- An Eighteenth-Century Moment -- Sunday Afternoon -- Edward Hopper's Woman Sitting on the Bed -- A Mountain Village in Southern France -- No One Goes to Paris in August -- Paris Plan in Hand -- In the Yard Facing the Ocean: A Roots Composition -- Weather -- Photograph of a Gathering of People Waving -- Countryside Camp -- Wanderer in a Foreign Country -- In My Own Language --
- Why Wait? Do It Now -- Do Nothing Till You Hear from Me -- Gracelessness Recaptured as Grace -- What Is a Symbol? -- First Night of Spring -- Love Letter -- Long After You Are Ashes -- The Play of Real Life -- On the Beach -- You and Others -- Three Figures in an Interior -- The Art of Sitting in a Chair -- The People Next Door -- The Hat Lady in the Parlor Window -- Inside Outside -- The Memory and the Place -- Process and Space -- Unknown Presence -- Reading about Rocks -- The Document -- One Thing for Sure -- Rumors: A Family Matter -- The Painting after Lunch -- Film and Flesh -- Waiting for Sweet Betty -- Thomas Eakins's Delaware River Paintings -- Thomas Eakins and the Photograph of a Man in Motion.
- ISBN
- 1556591799 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2002013392
- OCLC
- ocm50511394
- SCSB-4320170
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries