Research Catalog

Title

Shadow ball : new and selected poems / Charles Harper Webb.

Author

Webb, Charles Harper.

Publication

Pittsburgh, PA : University of Pittsburgh Press, c2009.

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Details

Description

ix, 145 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Pitt poetry series

Uniform Title

Pitt poetry series.

Contents

From Reading the Water 1997 -- The Mummy Meets Hot-Headed Naked Ice-Borers -- The Death of Santa Claus -- Prayer for the Man Who Mugged My Father, 72 -- Spiders -- The Crane Boy -- One Story -- In Praise of Pliny -- Umbrellas -- Broken Toe -- Peaches -- Invocation to Allen as the Muse Euterpe -- The Shape of History -- From Liver 1999 -- Wedding Dress -- Over the Town -- Biblical Also-Rans -- Musk Turtle -- Tone of Voice -- Tenderness in Men -- Prozac -- Byron, Keats, and Shelley -- Someone Else's Good News -- Losing My Hair -- Love Poetry -- Descent -- From Tulip Farms and Leper Colonies 2001 -- Did That Really Happen? -- To Prove that We Existed Before You Were Born -- Charles Harper Webb -- Vikings -- A Salesman and a Librarian -- Death Comes to the Baby Boom -- Waking at 3 A.M -- Cocksucker -- Waiting -- Socks -- To Make My Countrymen Love Poetry -- From Hot Popsicles 2005 -- Consciousness -- Rat Defeated in a Landslide -- To Set Himself Off from the Crowd -- Conan the Barbarian -- A Ticklish Situation -- Judge Frosty Presiding -- Imp of the Verbose -- Hot Popsicles -- Superman, Old -- Making Things Right -- From Amplified Dog 2006 -- Amplified Dog -- Ooh My Soul -- My Wife Insists That, On Our First Date, I Told Her I Had Seven Kinds of Hair -- The New World Book of Webbs -- Pumpkin Envy -- Cat Possessed by Poet Keats -- Prayer to Tear the Sperm-Dam Down -- The Animals Are Leaving -- A Meal Not Eaten -- A Grand Opening of Hearts -- The Open-Air Recital Survived a Shaky Start -- How to Live -- Shadow Ball -- Comebacks -- Blues -- Sneaker Males -- Goddess -- Feeders -- "Ghost of a Chance" -- Big -- Kidnapper-Couple Who Forgot to Leave a Ransom Note Sentenced to 14 Years -- Teachers' Names -- We've Got Rhythm -- I Have Much Better Poems than This -- He Won't Go to Sleep Without Me -- Flashlight.

ISBN

• 9780822960423
• 0822960427

LCCN

40017264243

OCLC

• ocn326569298
• 326569298

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries