Research Catalog

Title

New and selected poems / Larry D. Thomas.

Author

Thomas, Larry D., 1947-

Publication

Fort Worth, Tex. : TCU Press, [2008?]

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Details

Description

viii, 88 pages; 24 cm.

Series Statement

TCU Texas poets laureate series

Uniform Title

• Poems. Selections
• TCU Texas poets laureate series.

Alternative Title

Poems.

Contents

Introduction / Billy Bob Hill -- I. Laden with Red Earth -- Wind -- Palo Duro Canyon -- Herefords in Winter -- The Red Raging Waters -- Rattlesnake Roundup -- "Of Dust Thou Art" -- Rain -- The Skull Seller -- Vultures -- Texas Mountain Laurel -- Over Barbecue -- Amazing Grace -- Alzheimer's -- Texas Two-Step -- Madonna and Child -- The Light of Mexico -- El Camino del Rio -- Kaleidoscope -- Warrior Woman -- For Purity -- Bones -- II. The Gray Fabric of the Sky -- Neches River -- Slug -- In the Voodoo Lounge -- Twin Spinsters in Blue -- Tumescence -- The Laws of His Kind -- Crows Roosting -- Of Ceremony -- Even the Moon -- A Big Black Raven -- Colors -- That Glorious Crash -- The Soft Lamps -- She Works Nights -- Crabber -- Brown Pelican -- Ghost Crab -- Old Gull -- In the Nacreous Hours -- The Ferry -- From the Dark Swells -- The Lighthouse Keeper -- III. Legions of Blue Angels -- Out of the Blue -- Gabriel -- A Place in the Sun -- Of Fathers and Sons -- Of Eyes Wondrously Wild -- Harvest Moon -- Primary Colors -- The Night We Were Gods -- Artificial Fruit -- Bluing -- Aunt Mae and Uncle Worley's Rocker -- Cotton -- To Blue -- Spirit Sign -- Driving Through West Texas -- Road Kill -- Apricots -- IV. The Simple Things They Cherished (New Poems) -- Bach -- Hawk -- The Golfer -- Flaking the Slate Gravestones -- In Maine -- French Quarter -- A Matter of Color -- Woman with a Crow -- The Dragonfly -- Crow with Red Sky -- Coma -- Minotaur -- Terlingua.

ISBN

• 9780875653600 (alk. paper)
• 087565360X (alk. paper)

LCCN

2007042700

OCLC

• ocn174501906
• 174501906
• SCSB-5414775

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries