Research Catalog

Title

For love of common words : poems / Steve Scafidi.

Author

Scafidi, Steve.

Publication

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2006.

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Details

Description

viii, 72 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"The scariest sentence in the English language is brief, threatening, and hopeful. It is deceptive, simple, and as common as water: anything is possible. This second collection by Steve Scafidi is haunted by the possible and "the bells of the verb to be" that "ring-a-ding-ding calling us / to the holy dark of this first / warm night of Spring." When anything is possible, Scafidi finds, horror is as likely as delight. In poems both meditative and defiant he mourns the eventual loss of all that we love and finds consolation, wherever possible, in the rhythm of common words and "the sacred guesswork" of the imagination. Here is the dangerous world we all have in common. Here is a brief and hopeful book."--Publisher's website.

Series Statement

Southern messenger poets

Uniform Title

Southern messenger poets.

Subject

Appalachian region > Poetry

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Life story of the possible -- River of mirrors -- Calling to her -- What rose light as breath -- Ode to the middle finger -- The mountain in the river -- The boast -- After Homer's catalog of ships -- The split-second star -- Habits of the North American Sasquatch -- The egg suckers -- Lullaby for the wolf -- The boy inside the pumpkin -- Pieta -- To lean like a broom at the gates -- The lower dove -- On the texture of yewberries -- The charwood box -- Rainy millionaire morning -- Pop pop pop -- On the death of Karla Faye Tucker -- For my friend Todd Hardy who says we die and that's it -- Witness to the work -- The meeting place -- At the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier -- Implement and icon -- Where we work.

ISBN

0807131377 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2005016506

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library