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Title

The work of the sun : new and selected poems, 1991-2002 / Charles Edward Eaton.

Author

Eaton, Charles Edward, 1916-2006.

Publication

Cranbury, NJ : Cornwall Books, [2004], ©2004.

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Details

Description

304 pages; 25 cm

Summary

"The Work of the Sun, Charles Edward Eaton's seventeenth collection of poetry, incudes selections from The Guest on Mild Evenings (1992), The Country of the Blue (1994), The Fox and I (1996), The Scout in Summer (1999), The Jogger by the Sea (2000), and over thirty new poems, previously published in Salmagundi, The New Criterion, New Letters, etc."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• North Carolina > Poetry

Contents

A Guest on Mild Evenings (1991) -- The Lynx -- The Stretcher -- The Axle -- The Summerhouse -- The Glioma -- The Great Chain of Being -- The Leash -- Truffles -- Bayou -- Eyewitness -- Among the Amazons -- Dead End -- In Xanadu -- The Aborigine -- Quetzal -- Home Thoughts from Abroad -- The Grommet -- Moonlight and Madness -- Hair of the Dog -- Whistle Stop -- Folk Song -- June Issue with Swan Dive -- Cottonmouth -- Latchstring -- Regrets Only -- Enigma of the Eye -- Roof Garden -- The Gangplank -- Sword of Damocles -- The Blue Train -- Flaws -- Bitter Pill -- Snapback -- The Bit -- In Vino Veritas -- The Pump -- Night Cap -- The Concert Grand -- The Cane -- Stylebook -- Postscript for Locke -- The Folly -- Squeegee -- The Glass Head -- End Game -- Jacaranda -- Belvedere -- Dumbbells -- The Ablution -- Sunflower Souvenir -- The Plane -- The Junk -- Last Straw -- Asbestos Book -- Life Preserver -- The Country of the Blue (1994) -- Cahoon's Hollow, Looking Down -- The Javelin -- Palmy Days -- Blue Landscape -- Long Hours in the Sun -- The Clutch -- A Charmed Life -- Private Eye -- Touch and Go -- The Riverboat -- Periscope -- The Torpedo -- Screwdriver -- The Pier -- The Winged Eye -- The Trellis -- In Cold Blood -- The Sun Says Grace -- Vulcan at Sunrise -- Up Close and Personal -- The Spool -- The Turn-On -- The Hinge -- The Afterworld -- River Job -- The Aquarium -- The Swamp -- Wall Fountain -- White Lake -- Claws -- The Crane -- The Towline -- The Swan at Sunset -- The House on the Hill -- Water Wings -- Loose Ends -- The Wisteria Sailor -- The Fling -- Islands Beyond A -- Dipstick -- The Vise -- The Art of Quotation -- Blue Blazes -- Land's End -- The Man with the Blue Spine -- The Vigneron -- Squeeze Play -- The Child of Life -- The Goblet -- Wild Oats -- Blue Dancers -- The Pond -- The Truss -- The Premise -- Last Word -- The Cove -- The Fox and I (1996) -- The Pirogue -- African Afternoons -- The Tent -- Front Porch Glider -- The Crop Duster -- Flowering Judas, Later -- The Fox and I -- Amber -- Grasshopper -- Figures in a Compleat Season -- Summer Night -- The Break-Up -- Return of the Native -- Petrified Forest -- The Gold Tooth -- The Minotaur's Bother -- Zombie -- Extremadura -- The Cable -- Exaltation of an Aesthete -- Studbook -- The Jack -- La Vie en Rose -- Hang Gliding -- Chuck Wagon -- The Crank -- Wild Horses in the Snow -- Stalactite -- Sunset Casino -- The Great Train Robbery -- Snow on the Mountain -- Antinomies for Vulcan -- The Dervish -- La Loge -- The Cave Painting -- Harlequin Head -- The Naked Truth -- The Language Student -- Untitled Picture -- The Haystack in the Needle -- Quizzical Bequest -- Foil -- The Liaison -- Metronome -- Blowgun -- Afternoon in a Yellow Room -- The Bugler -- Blind Spot -- The Mandolin -- Red Carpet Treatment -- Tweezers -- The Clown in the Closet -- The Scout in Summer (1999) -- Eyepatch -- The Albatross -- The Veil of Breath -- Splitting Hairs -- The Awl -- Granite -- The Bend in the River, the Arm of the Cliff -- Indigo Oarsman -- The Monitor -- Tapeworm -- The Loser -- The Necrophile -- Epitaphs -- Gallstone -- Stretching the Limousine -- The Gilded Cage -- Once Around the Ego with the Id -- Restaurant by the Sea -- The Dream Book -- Arms and the Man -- The Sponge -- The Center of Attraction -- Conversation at Dawn -- Bull's-Eye -- Tiger, Tiger -- Pierrot -- Notes of a Native -- The Unabashed -- The Scout in Summer -- Jump Start -- Manatee -- The Flash Point -- The Niche -- Ladybug -- Strings -- Coral Reef -- Hydrangea -- Sack Race -- The Fingernail -- Missing Link -- Reading the Leaves -- Calipers -- The Dagger of Degas -- The Gyroscope -- Snow Leopard -- The Existentialist -- The Jogger by the Sea (2002) -- The Body on the Sand -- Riding the Sunset -- Hammock Hyperbole -- The Blue Men to the Desert -- Up to the Hilt -- The Apse in the Afternoon -- White Book -- The Weight of the Mastiff -- Piranha -- Extraction of Pearls -- Colander -- White Lie -- Expeditions of the Eye -- Dutch Interior -- The Hairbrush -- The Camera and the Keyboard -- The Camel That Broke the Back of the Straw -- Zipper -- The Double Bed -- The Eye of the Beholder -- Medieval Moments -- Zodiac Arrest -- Anatomy of Scars -- Family Reunion -- The Fever Blister -- The Window Doctor -- April Sunshine -- Wild Onions -- Fairweather Friends -- Close Quarters -- Killer Bees -- Geisha -- The Blue Line -- The Jogger by the Sea -- Tell Us, Tarantula -- Magnifying Glass -- The Quill -- Clam -- Moroccan Magniloquence -- The Tongue -- The Hunt for the Great Blue -- View from a Passion for Phlox -- Undine -- Man in the Middle of His Images -- The Work of the Sun (New Poems) -- Fallen Arches -- The Navel Gazer -- Hourglass -- The Luge -- The Wheafield -- The Crisis in the Ice Cream -- The Lever -- Deep Breathing at Midnight -- The Rocking Horse -- Zither -- Pavane for a Dead Parrot -- The Author of Autumn -- Walking Wounded -- Chameleon -- Zebra -- Hemorrhage -- Catheter -- Drawing Blood -- English Walnuts -- Paperclip -- Kangaroo -- Choke Collar -- Clean Sweep -- Cauldron -- Cameo -- The Etymologist in the Orchard -- The Idea in the Garden -- An Epistemological Incident -- Atlas in the Evening -- Swan in Search of the City -- The Work of the Sun.

ISBN

• 0845348876 (alk. paper)
• 084534711X (alk. paper)

LCCN

2003016968

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries