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Title

The green piano : poems / Janine Pommy-Vega.

Author

Pommy-Vega, Janine.

Publication

Jaffrey, N.H. : David R. Godine, c2005.

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Details

Description

xiii, 127 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"In this, her first collection since the career-spanning Mad Dogs of Trieste (2000), Janine Pommy Vega writes with quiet command of her life and times and of our shared American present. Here are protests against the depravities of the prison system and the Washington war machine - political poems that are fierce yet never strident and that always begin in closely observed human particulars. Here too are tender lyrics about family, lovers and friends; celebrations of the natural and domestic worlds of upstate New York; and remarkably vivid letters home from spiritual sojourns through Italy, Germany, and the former Yugoslavia."--Jacket.

Subject

• American poetry > 21st century

Note

• "A Black Sparrow book."

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Blind Numbers over the Hill -- Four Days before Rumi Died -- The Tray -- C.O. -- Christmas at Woodbourne -- Offhand, from a Word -- Patrick Nolan -- Photograph -- Going into a Wishbone -- Blind Numbers over the Hill -- From A Week of Kindness -- Please Look Both Ways before Crossing -- The Smile -- In the Age of Grasshoppers -- Driving While Black -- Business on the Hill, as Usual -- For Boats Only -- 400 to 21 Against Megadeath Media Takeover -- Habeas Corpus Blues -- Wartime Kitchen -- Memo for Memorial Day -- Animal Kingdom -- Inanna Is Singing Us to Sleep -- The Green Piano: I -- "We're just lucky" -- Love from a Distance -- Heart -- Withdrawal -- Right Here -- Garden -- Rivulet -- Birch Fat -- Doing Nothing -- After Frost -- Telemeter -- Jerusalem Artichoke -- Telling the Beads -- The Other Side -- First -- Ghost -- Portable Altar -- Lily -- The Poppy of Georgia O'Keeffe -- The Closet -- Dialogue -- What? -- Skunk Valentine's Day -- Feet -- Gregory -- Thoughts in the Morning -- Song of the Beech Copse -- Song to the Moon -- Ode to the Old Willow -- Scramble -- Chocha Beanie -- Alabama Hello -- Not Yet -- Mirror -- Mean Ol' Badger Blues -- Enid -- Whole -- Food Song -- The Great Vessel -- The Great Vessel: I-IV -- The Green Piano -- The Green Piano: II -- Piazza della Bussola -- Sehnsucht -- The Serpent and Amalfi Rose -- Pranu Mutteddu -- Colosseum -- Temple of Vesta -- The Spoils of Rome -- Eternal City -- Postcard from Napoli -- Verona-Heidelberg Express -- Izet -- Sarajevo Hands, 2003.

ISBN

157423207X (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2005003643

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library