Research Catalog

Title

Mystery, so long / Stephen Dobyns.

Author

Dobyns, Stephen, 1941-

Publication

New York : Penguin Books, 2005.

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Details

Description

x, 95 p.; 22 cm.

Series Statement

Penguin poets

Contents

The exigencies of art -- An artist like any other -- Unexpected holiday -- Yellow beak -- Do they have a reason? -- Living in a nice place -- Other -- The happily ever after -- Toward some bright moment -- Dead rope -- Penny for your thoughts -- Alligator dark -- Learning to cope -- Payback -- The balance -- Family values -- Hide and seek -- Survivor -- Reparations -- Between -- Face-to-face -- At home with angels -- The personal lyric vs. the public good -- Commotion -- Scofflaw -- Hack work -- Dance, dance -- Shards of broken glass rejoined -- Saying no -- No moment past this one -- Odds and ends -- The birth of angels -- Jonah's flight to Tarshish -- Functional forgetting -- The appreciation of beauty -- Endnotes from the ancient world -- The pig's complaint to his queen -- Chuckleheads -- Heaven's proletariat -- Angel with book -- The requisite grin -- Old farts' ball -- The mercy of lazarus -- Driving past toward the bridge -- The sideboard's mahogany surface -- The sacrifice -- Too much skepticism is like a punch to the head -- For those whose mouths are packed with suckling pig -- Punishments -- The last take-out supper -- A morning pre-beef -- Cold nights -- Country club -- Poem ending with a line by Su Tung-Po -- What had seemed permanent -- Thomas the Doubter's irrefutable chink -- What he had been promised -- Aidoneus - Hades - unseen one -- The cat with its toys -- Pluto -- Small -- Three Christs of Ypsilanti -- Mystery, so long -- Field notes on divine evolution -- The cunning one -- Artist -- Discord -- Icarus's flight -- Blemished and unblemished -- Last wisdom.

ISBN

0143034626

LCCN

2004063225

OCLC

• 56955946
• ocm56955946

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries