Research Catalog

Title

Brother Salvage : poems / Rick Hilles.

Author

Hilles, Rick.

Publication

Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2006], ©2006.

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Details

Description

80 pages; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Pitt poetry series

Uniform Title

Pitt poetry series.

Note

• "2005 Agnes Lynch Starrett prize."

Contents

Antique shop window, Krakow -- Amchu -- Scene from a failed documentary -- The finding of the book -- The book of the brother -- The last blue light -- Lament for my brother -- "Lately when I see you it is in darkness" -- "Tonight alone in another house ..." -- Song for an empty hand -- Yom HaShoah in Florida -- Preparing for flight -- "The women in this family play Pinochle" -- "The air after rain : the sounds of lovers" -- Ghost story -- Fender strat with wab-wah, fuzz box, & whammy bar -- One underworld -- My mother's bed on fire -- Taking a shower with my father -- Arcana Mundi -- The temple -- Alarm -- "Sometimes you have nothing left to say ..." -- "After so much build-up ..." -- All Soul's Eve -- The dangerous light -- Insleave for A hieroglyphic key to spiritual mysteries : published posthumously in Stockholm, 1784 -- "I was conceived in an ordinary bed" -- "Word got around of our proclivities" -- "The grinder says a freak is either born" -- Crude hours which pass over me like animals -- The room in which an orange is the only light -- The trail : Lord, open your jeweled eyes -- Poem buried in a line by Paul Eluard -- Artisans to the tomb -- Figure painting at the school of fallen angels -- Novalis -- A brief folklore of typography -- A visionary's company.

ISBN

0822959356 (pbk.)

OCLC

• ocm71259258
• SCSB-5278764

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries