Research Catalog

Title

Music from apartment 8 : new and selected poems / John Stone.

Author

Stone, John, 1936-2008.

Publication

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2004.

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Details

Description

viii, 163 p.; 24 cm.

Alternative Title

Music from apartment eight

Contents

Tuesday at the Assisted Care Home -- Frances -- Visitation -- Noon, Thursday -- Patriot at the Pianoforte -- After Surgery -- Processional: A Follow-Up -- Baalbek -- Jerash: Potsherds -- Spiritual -- Back through Time -- Mount Sinai: Chasing the Sun -- Caduceus -- In Petra -- Before Sleep -- Jerusalem: Bedtime -- Hydra: Greece -- First Night Back in Atlanta -- Looking for the Pal Theater -- South Sycamore: The Horse -- Halloween Impromptu -- Imagine with Me Now the Final Room -- The Tuileries -- Cadaver -- To a Fourteen-Year-Old Girl in Labor and Delivery -- Love Poem for a Son -- A Thirty-Four-Year-Old Substitutes as Goalie in Little League Soccer Practice -- Talking to the Family -- Autopsy in the Form of an Elegy -- Lines on a Misread Word -- The Bottle -- Getting to Sleep in New Jersey -- Being There -- Song for Tossing a Son -- Da capo -- Coming Home -- He Makes a House Call -- Love Poem at a Particular Breakfast for No Particular Woman -- Losing a Voice in Summer -- Love Poem Entirely of Cliches -- A Cliche Poem for Your Leaving -- Death -- Double-Header -- The Girl in the Hall -- Helping with the Math Homework -- Lessons in the Subjunctive -- One Evening -- Bringing Her Home -- Looking Down into a Ditch -- How I'd Have It -- Building the Steps -- Whittling: The Last Class -- The Truck -- Answering the Phone -- Fugue -- In All This Rain -- Early Sunday Morning -- Rosemary -- January: A Flight of Birds -- Forecast -- She in February -- You Round the Bend -- The Eclipse -- Three for the Mona Lisa -- Gaudeamus Igitur: A Valediction -- Homing Pigeon I -- Homing Pigeon II -- Homing Pigeon III -- The (Messenger) Pigeon -- Cooing in University College Quad The Lover-Pigeon Wakes Him Up at 5 A.M. -- A Word from the Teacher -- November -- December -- The Bass -- Where Water Begins -- Poem on an Accidental Xerox of Her Hand -- October -- Next Door -- Holiday -- The Good-bye, Good-Morning, Hello Poem -- This Kind of Thing Doesn't Happen Often and When It Does You Should Pay Attention -- He Attends Exercise Class - Once -- After the Concert: A Confession -- 5 A.M., Sleepless in Merton Street -- Back to Oxford -- The Forest Fire -- Doorway -- Through the Window of the Cabin -- Letter in the Form of a Poem -- Talking with the Mockingbird -- Elegy and Affirmation -- Walking the Dog on the Night Before He Is to Be Fixed -- Canticles of Time -- Memory -- Transplant -- While Watching His Own Echocardiogram, He Welcomes In the New Year -- Singing from the West Coast.

ISBN

• 0807129534 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0807129542 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2003017430

OCLC

ocm52799826

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries