Research Catalog

Title

The disappearing trick : poems / by Len Roberts.

Author

Roberts, Len, 1947-2007.

Publication

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2007], ©2007.

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Details

Description

vi, 91 pages; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Illinois poetry series

Uniform Title

Illinois poetry series.

Contents

Washing the steps -- My old friend, my daughter, October, Wassergass -- I blame it on him -- I cant forget you -- The silent archangels -- The eternal present of the ancient Chinese poems -- Cover girl sparkle -- Flicking -- Receiving at the kneeling rail -- The disappearing trick -- Pear tart -- Pitching in the Aggie -- A room for Jesus -- The right dress -- The starlings fill the trees -- At the breakfast table with my seventeen-year-old son -- Car on the road, late July, Wassergass -- Letter to HC in the hospital -- MISSING -- Fireflies at the Cohoes Drive-in -- The saints always -- Card game -- Indulgences for the dead -- In the expert valet clothing shop -- Another lent, the purple shrouds -- Trying to read Han Shan -- Limbo, Wassergass -- Poison sumac -- Lucky -- Suet -- Bullfrog, Wassergass -- Sequence -- Sleep-Eaze -- The chasm -- Four-way switch -- The ninth circle, Wassergass -- I keep repeating the name of the concerto -- Letter #3 to Carruth about the heron -- Hanging Tinsel -- Snowflakes in hell -- Considering Aunt Bea's white Toyota Celica -- Right after mass -- Inside the dim kitchen the rosary -- Window candle.

ISBN

• 0252031288 (cloth : acid-free paper)
• 9780252031281 (cloth : acid-free paper)
• 0252073746 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
• 9780252073748 (pbk. : acid-free paper)

LCCN

2006029373

OCLC

• OCM71275587
• 71275587
• SCSB-5354871

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries