Research Catalog

Title

Dog Star delicatessen : new and selected poems : 1979-2006 / Mekeel McBride.

Author

McBride, Mekeel, 1950-

Publication

[Pittsburgh, PA] : Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2006.

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Details

Additional Authors

Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.

Description

108 pages; 23 cm

Note

• "The publication of this book is supported by a grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts."--T.p. verso.

Contents

Flower -- Bella -- Oracle, brooch, sunflower, hors d'oeuvre, and sailboat all packed safely in the good old glowing Portmanteau -- Heron -- The well -- It almost seems like darkness -- Orchard -- Night story : window -- Red thread -- Cabin on the mountain -- I begin again -- Your silence made of orchards -- Mirror -- The bowl of milk -- Honey -- Like a gospel singer swan-winged in halleujahs -- Lucky -- Midwinter gift -- Turtle -- Apple fattening into orchards -- The goldfish -- Fountain pen ink, bottled -- I want to be a Ferris wheel -- Dog harmonica -- The nest -- A thing or two that might be true -- Night sky : window -- One time he wanted to be a bird -- I don't know how -- The foxy Romaine produce box -- The truth about why I love potatoes -- If that boaty pink Cadillac from 1959 with the huge fins -- Zero gravity -- Physics -- North, late April -- The miraculous shrine of the stairway dime -- It is ordinary, I am -- To the one lost on the other side -- All Hallow's Eve -- The clearing -- Death -- Good, I said -- Strauss and the cows of Ireland -- A little bit of timely advice -- Dreaming space awake -- In this moment -- Red letters -- The earliest maps -- Available light -- Growing stones in New Hampshire -- Inspiration's favorite foods -- Where inspiration has learned a thing or two -- Inspiration's anatomy -- If I'd been born in Tennessee -- How spring appears this time of year in New England -- Two trout fresh-caught for your supper -- River -- Private notice -- Relations -- The green gazebo -- Loneliness -- Mockingbird -- Summer -- The going under of the evening land -- The will to live -- The whale poem -- The juggler defines his art -- The knife-thrower's wife -- The need to talk -- Walter Bridge's death by drowning -- No child of earthly kitchens -- Part of a family history -- Meditations before and during sleep.

ISBN

• 0887484247
• 0887484344 (pbk.)

LCCN

• 2005924492
• 9780887484247
• 9788748434346 (pbk.)

OCLC

• ocm66465634
• SCSB-5247026

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries