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Title

Hardheaded weather : new and selected poems / Cornelius Eady.

Author

Eady, Cornelius, 1954-

Publication

New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, [2008], ©2008.

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Details

Description

204 pages; 21 cm

Summary

"Cornelius Eady writes sly, unsentimental, witty poems full of truths that are intimate and profound. The poems encompass a wide territory, reflecting the newfound responsibilities he has assumed as he makes the transition from urban renter to nonplussed rural homeowner, as well as the sobering influence of war and the intimation of his own mortality."--BOOK JACKET.

Note

• "A Marian Wood book."

Contents

Lucky House: New Poems (1999-2007) -- Lucky House -- The White Couch -- Honeymoon -- Cairo, NY -- First Nights -- Handymen -- The Hammer -- Migration -- Recycling -- Hardheaded Weather -- Pre-War -- Outside -- Lucky House -- Our House Is Yours -- Digging Out -- The Brakes -- The Tenants -- Translation -- Feast -- Test Drive -- Walk -- The Way a Long Dress Turns a Corner -- Communion -- Nina's Blues -- The Later Songs of Billie Holiday -- John Henry's Hammer -- A Small Story That Involves Me -- Dead Man Rides Subway -- Manchild -- How to Do -- Nature Poem -- The Ghost, the Mountain -- From Kartunes (1980) -- Discourse of the Young Poet -- The Thief -- Testimony of the Drunk Asleep on the Couch -- Success -- The Van Gogh Variation -- The Idiot Falls in Love -- Hawker -- From The Modern World (unpublished manuscript, 1981) -- The Professor Tries to Inspire His Poetry Students -- Knowledge -- Living with Genius -- White Socks -- The Corpse Before the Library of Knowledge -- Charlie Chaplin Impersonates a Poet -- Insomnia -- An Uncomfortable Moment with Eve -- Newborn -- U.S. Involvement in "Latin America" -- The House of Misfits -- Amelia Earhart in Paradise -- Thomas Edison, Trying to Prevent the Bottling of His Last Breath -- Atomic Prayer -- The Revisionist -- From Victims of the Latest Dance Craze (1986) -- Dance at the Amherst County Public Library -- April -- November -- January -- Piano Concert -- Crows in a Strong Wind -- Jack Johnson Does the Eagle Rock -- The Dance -- Aerial Ballet -- Miss Johnson Dances for the First Time -- Johnny Laces Up His Red Shoes -- Radio -- The Good Look -- My Mother, If She Had Won Free Dance Lessons -- The Poetic Interpretation of the Twist -- Jazz Dancer -- Victims of the Latest Dance Craze -- From The Gathering of My Name (1991) -- The Grin -- The Wrong Street -- Why Do So Few Blacks Study Creative Writing? -- Song -- Sherbet -- Alabama, c. 1963: A Ballad by John Coltrane -- Leadbelly -- Muddy Waters & the Chicago Blues -- Thelonious Monk -- William Carlos Williams -- The Supremes -- Gratitude -- From You Don't Miss Your Water (1995) -- I Know (I'm Losing You) -- A Little Bit of Soap -- One Kind Favor -- Soothe Me -- A Rag, a Bone, and a Hank of Hair -- All God's Dangers -- Money (That's What I Want) -- Motherless Children -- Papa Was a Rolling Stone -- The Chapel of Love -- I Just Wanna Testify -- Deuce and a Quarter -- You Don't Miss Your Water -- From The Autobiography of a Jukebox (1997) -- I'm a Fool to Love You -- Almost Grown -- Leavin' Trunk -- Santa Claus (come straight to the ghetto) -- Why Was I Born? A Duet Between John Coltrane & Kenny Burrell -- Photo of Miles Davis at Lennie's-on-the-Turnpike, 1968 -- Chuck Berry -- Youngblood -- From Brutal Imagination (2001) -- Brutal Imagination -- How I Got Born -- My Heart -- Who Am I? -- Sightings -- My Face -- Where Am I? -- The Law -- One True Thing -- Composite -- Charles Stuart in the Hospital -- Uncle Tom in Heaven -- What I'm Made Of -- What the Sheriff Suspects -- Next of Kin -- What Is Known About the Abductor -- What Isn't Known About the Abductor -- Sympathy -- Confession -- Birthing.

ISBN

• 9780399154850
• 039915485X
• 9780399155116 (pbk.)
• 0399155112 (pbk.)

LCCN

• 2008005403
• 40015411312

OCLC

• ocn191898201
• 191898201
• SCSB-5407626

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries