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Title

Song that fathoms home : poems / Ray McNiece.

Author

McNiece, Ray.

Publication

Huron, Ohio : Bottom Dog Press, [2003], ©2003.

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Details

Additional Authors

Bottom Dog Press, publisher. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2006007706

Description

128 pages; 22 cm.

Summary

"Ray McNiece is an Ohio poet who goes out to the world in his performances and publications. As writer, actor, singer and teacher he has won new audiences for the word. He has toured throughout the United States and Europe, most recently in Italy with Lawrence Ferlinghetti and in Russia with poet laurete Yevgeny Yevtushenko where he appeared on "Good Morning, Russia" and at the Moscow Polytech, the Russian Poets' Hall of Fame, where he was dubbed, "the American Mayakovsky." He has collaborated with his band Tongue-in-Groove to create two poetry musicals, Mouth Music, and The Rustbowl Hootenanny. He is the voice of Woody Guthrie on NPR's Hard Travellin.' In a review of his solo theatre work, "Us - Talking Across America," the Star Phoenix said, "His thoughtful writing combines with perfectly timed delivery to create a wordscape that owes as much to jazz as drama." Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Harmony series

Uniform Title

Harmony series (Huron, Ohio)

Contents

Song Always Beginning -- In Cold Light -- The Home of Lost Words -- The First Word Spoken -- Monody For a Small Town -- The Sun Pronounces -- Tearing Lines of Verse From Air -- Truth of Breath -- Whitman in Manhatta -- Elegy for Samuel Beckett -- Elegy for Andy Warhol -- Bird's Notes -- Velvet Elvis -- Out of the Same Dark that Blooms Always -- The Power of Music -- Swirling -- The Light of Day -- The Word -- The Cheap Hotel Suite -- Cheap Hotel Suite -- Twirling a Paper Umbrella -- Valentine -- The Chianti Flute Solo -- 155 Pounds of Dead Fish -- Did I Trade You for the Moon? -- Poem of Emptiness -- Only Now Alone -- As We Fall Again -- Our Bodies Joined -- Just Like That -- My Tongue Has Never Forgotten -- Four Sharings -- Twined in the Dawn -- Hometown Haunt -- Song Heard Only Now After Gone -- The Moon's Spare Change -- Song Heard Only Now After Gone -- Hunter's Moon -- Heat Lightning -- The Night the Bed Became a Rack -- He Makes Them Come to Him -- Dandelions -- Morning Walk in Late July -- Pop Songs Through the Night -- The Ordinary -- Mr. and Mrs. Frankenstein -- Letter From Andersonville -- Song That Fathoms Home -- A Burning Question -- Memorial -- Mutant Ninja Turtle Boy -- Cleveland Winter -- Winter Sunset -- City of Strong Thighs -- The Last Ring-neck Pheasant -- The Picture in the Shoebox -- Song That Fathoms Home -- Definition of Making a Living, Part II -- A Swampwater Cocktail -- The Bottom -- Harold's Resurrection -- The Devil at the Mall -- Last Will and Testament for the Millennium -- Beginning With Being.

ISBN

0933087853

OCLC

ocm54012290

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries