Research Catalog

Title

Winter sky : new and selected poems, 1968-2008 / Coleman Barks.

Author

Barks, Coleman.

Publication

Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2008], ©2008.

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Details

Description

xviii, 315 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"Winter Sky offers a selection from Coleman Barks's seven previously published books combined with a group of new poems." "The poems spring directly from experience and engage with subjects such as the elation and struggle of having and raising children, grief over the deaths of loved ones, the transition from parent to grandparent, or the changing nature and intensity of desire. Barks's open letter to President Bush, written days before the invasion of Iraq and widely circulated online, is a poetic plea for peace, offering a startling and moving alternative to war."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• American poetry > 21st century
• American poetry > 20th century

Note

• "A Brown Thrasher Books original"--T.p. verso.

Contents

New Poems -- The Center -- Extravagance -- The Light in Everyone's Eyes -- As the Dew -- from There ain't nothing like it -- On Spirit -- From Scrapwood Man (2007) -- Guidance We Have Need Of -- Reading in Bed -- from Notebooks -- Wine Poems -- The Speed of Consciousness and August 18th -- Car Trips -- The Return of Professor Dumwhistle -- These Winter Skies -- Losing It -- American College Students Overheard in a Restaurant After I Return from Afghanistan -- Just This Once -- from Central Asian Sufis and the Nature of the Heart -- From Tentmaking (2002) -- Tentmaking -- Purring -- Divination -- Book Tour Cure for Talking Too Much in Public -- Question -- Bill Matthews Coming Along -- Black Rubber Ball -- Bridge -- Luke and the Duct Tape -- Whittling -- Spring Morning -- Lighton Leaves -- The Ant -- Abscission Leaf, Looking into Water -- Silo, Spring Violets -- The Final Final -- Currycombing -- Donald Hall Is Falling Down -- The Animal -- So Close, Not a Foot -- Love for Clouds -- 1971 and 1942 -- None Other -- Fly -- Stone -- Lard Gourd -- The Railing -- What We Learn from Literature -- These Very Feet -- The Look on the Dog's Face -- Grace -- Service -- The Saint and Sinner Bullshit -- Fine Arts Auditorium -- Night Train, Southern France -- Kingsnake -- Driving Back from the Mountains -- Straying -- Elegy for John Seawright -- From Club: Granddaughter Poems (2001) -- No Finale -- Club -- Wietien -- To Make an Ocean -- Auspices -- Boxkite -- Dumb Chess -- Glad -- In Opening Game Day Traffic -- Poetry for Children -- From Gourd Seed (1993) -- A Wish -- A Section of the Oconee Near Watkinsville -- Buttermilk -- The House of the Tibetan Bellmaker -- Higdon Cove -- The Great Blue Heron -- In the Woods, You and I -- Fried Green Tomato Sandwiches -- A Walk in the Botanical Gardens -- Bedclothes -- Titty-Bream -- Summer Food -- Kindling -- The Fire -- The Wind Today -- Orange Circles on Lavender Wings -- Let the Door Be Locked -- Hymenoptera -- Some Orange Juke -- Wrfc -- Walk Soup -- Each Peach -- The Tree -- Audience -- Spring Lizards -- The Grocery Store -- Vigil Notes -- New Year's Day Nap -- Darshan Singh and Christian Harmony -- Small Talk: Coffee, The Second Mike Poem, Three, Every Evening, The End of the Sentence, The Fucking Grave, Salt -- Becoming Milton -- Two-Hour Wait in Toronto -- Night Creek -- An Up-Till-Now-Uncelebrated Joy -- These Things, Hereafter -- Sleet -- The Brain-House -- Carolina Silverbells -- Fightingtown Creek -- Gourd Day -- A Hard-Cuss for Gourd Seed -- From We're Laughing at the Damage (1977) -- Good night -- Snow -- Putting up a bowl, its true resting -- A flame is walking -- This is how we'd like -- From New Words (1976) -- Sunbath in May -- The Last Rebirth -- The Hall Mirror -- Sand -- New Words -- From the Juice (1972) -- Body Poems - Big Toe, Stomach, Elbow, Cheek, Heart, Brain, Appendix, Knuckles, Navel, Shoulder Blades, Jaw, Upper Lip, Adam's Apple, Small of the Back, Crown of the Hair, Tongue, Bags Under the Eyes, Nape, Jowl, Ear Lobe, Thighs, Achilles Tendon, Wrist, Hips, Eye, Blood, Semen, Cavities, Roof of the Mouth, Middle Finger, Genitals, Skull, Spine, Coccyx, Blind Spot, Lymph, Scar, Pelvis, Buttocks, Inner Ear, Goosepimples, Liver, Haunches, Back of the Knee, Dimple, Sleep, Spleen, Fingertips, Armpit, Uvula, Taste Buds, Spoor, Yawn, Tic, Nostrils, Blush, Halfgainer, Halftwist, Spit 'n Image, Hands, Rice, Caul, Shadow, Bosoms, Balls, Birthmark, Sound Made by -- Snapping the Fingers -- Choosing -- Goat & Boy -- Five Ways Down Stringer's Ridge -- The Literal Snake -- The Afterlife -- The Oracle -- Nickajack Cave -- The Finger of Necessity -- The Mule -- The African Night Adder -- The Flag Page -- Taking a Nap Underneath My Desk -- Keats -- The Swim.

ISBN

• 9780820332376 (alk. paper)
• 0820332372 (alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2008026586
• 40015976750

OCLC

• 225874011
• ocn225874011
• SCSB-5438160

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries