Research Catalog

Title

The one-strand river / Richard Kenney.

Author

Kenney, Richard.

Publication

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.

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Details

Description

xiv, 177 pages; 24 cm

Note

• "Poems, 1994-2007"--Jacket.

Contents

Pt. 1. The Water Clock -- Pen, Line -- How I Used to Wish -- Orrery -- Rear View -- Sky with Eagles -- Grasshopper -- Lens -- Currency -- Alba Lapse -- More Longitude -- The One-Strand River -- Pt. 2. Riven Heaven -- Occulting -- New -- Notes Toward the Next Question -- Turbulence -- Things -- Resonance -- Song -- Shall I Compare Thee to Appearances? -- 0, 1 -- 2 A.M. -- Epicycles -- Pt. 3. Uranium Rose -- Alba Mine -- No Odder Elsewhere -- Squall Correlative -- No -- Not College, Recalled -- Constitutional -- Surrealism -- Composite -- Communications System -- The Rough -- To Circe -- Pt. 4. Follies -- Alba Boats -- Millenary -- Aesthetics Update -- Air Sublime -- Volkerwanderung -- Now We Are Ready to Speak of Bodies Changing into Other Bodies -- Metamorphoses -- Volkerwanderung Again -- Lightning Strikes the Protein-Rich Postcambrian Tide Pool -- New Year, with Nipperkin -- Final Exam -- Pt. 5. Ars Longa -- Balancing -- Some Charles and a Fresh Start -- Per Benjamin Franklin -- Poetry -- Saxon Rivets -- Eye in a Fine Frenzy Rolling -- Ithaca -- More Charles and an Old Story -- Biographical -- Lives of the Romantics -- How Am I? -- Pt. 6. Metamorphoses -- Alba Utterly -- Consolations of Verse -- Talent Show -- Another Unfortunate Encounter -- Rewrite -- More War Songs -- Challenges & Opportunities -- Daphne Abducted -- Scenes -- Imaginative Literature 101 -- The Carbon Cycle -- Pt. 7. Western Wind -- Muse Interviews -- White Paper -- Library Update -- Ecumenical -- The Judeo-Christian Tradition -- Critical -- Noted -- Asphyxiation Sapphics -- September -- Separated by Little but an Adequate Sense of the Tragic -- Less Larks -- Pt. 8. Folly -- Security Council -- Fall of Rome -- Alaric Intelligence Memo #36 -- If Bev Above -- Meanwhile -- In a Pig's Eye -- What Went Wrong in Iraq? -- A Pot of Tea -- Judgment -- Open Letter -- More Politics -- Pt. 9. Ephemeris -- Hermetic Sapphics -- Abettors of Entropy -- Office Visit -- Nevermore -- Alba Red -- Ephemeris -- Honor Guard -- Metamorphosis -- Cumaean -- Four Score -- Knight, Death, Devil -- Pt. 10. Rings -- Alba Bad -- That Was Grim King -- Rings -- Pt. 11. Compass Rose -- Dark Matter -- Alba Beach -- Parallel World -- Asymmetries -- Entropy Over -- Mid -- Hydrology; Lachrymation -- The Winter -- Contraction -- Late Child -- Pathetic Fallacy -- Acknowledgments, Chimeras, Notes.

ISBN

• 9780307267634
• 0307267636

LCCN

• 2007044321
• 40015085079

OCLC

• 180190840
• ocn180190840
• SCSB-5390049

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries