Northwestern University Press, 1999 Cloth: 978-0-8101-5091-1 | Paper: 978-0-8101-5092-8 Library of Congress Classification PS3573.E3835A69 1999 Dewey Decimal Classification 811.54
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
Winner of the 2006 Lannan Foundation Award for Poetry
In his twelfth volume of poetry, Bruce Weigl continues his quest for emotional and spiritual enlightenment. Quiet and moving, these poems combine an intimate voice with a searingly direct look at suffering and senseless violence, at human desire and love, and at man's relationship with nature.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Bruce Weigl (born January 27, 1949, Lorain, Ohio) is an American contemporary poet who teaches at Lorain County Community College. Weigl enlisted in the United States Army shortly after his 18th birthday and spent three years in the service. He served in the Vietnam War from December 1967 to December 1968 and received the Bronze Star . When he returned to the United States, Weigl obtained a bachelor's degree from Oberlin College, and a Master of Arts Degree in Writing/American and British Literature from the University of New Hampshire. From 1975-76, Weigl was an instructor at Lorain County Community College in Elyria, Ohio
REVIEWS
"These are hard-edged, partisan works imbued with the spirits of Philip Levine and James Dickey." --Washington Post Book World
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"This is the powerful, seldom easy work of a very distinctive poet." --Booklist
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Part One Providence
After the others
Ant
The Happy Land
Praise Wound Dirt Skin Sky
In the Realm of Cricket
The Inexplicable Abandonment of Habit in Eclipse
Prologue in Minor Key, for the Ancestors
What He Said When They Made Him Tell Them Everything
The Latin for Black Widow
The Idea of Form at Spruce Creek
To Adrian from Crow
Wanting Again
Elegy for Her Whose Name You Don't Know
Errata
The Before
River Journal
Anniversary of Myself
For the Anthropologist, Merging
Why I'm Not Afraid
Part Two Our Eden
And we came home
The Choosing of Mozart's Fantasie Over Suicide
Why I Hate Theory
Pineapple
Lost in LA
The Nothing Redemption
Cult of the Car
Gambling
A Foreign Policy
Meditation at Las Cruces after a Day with a Friend Who Sometimes Thinks She Is Fire
Morning at Ca Lu River
The Singing and the Dancing
For the Man with the Snare of the Devil in His Heart
A Brief Ontology
On Not Finding Frost's Grave in the Dark
Elegy for Matthews
Our Independence Day
The Future
Morning of What Would Become the Evening of the Seven Irises
Drinking Song
The happiness of others
Our Lies and Their Beauty
Northwestern University Press, 1999 Cloth: 978-0-8101-5091-1 Paper: 978-0-8101-5092-8
Winner of the 2006 Lannan Foundation Award for Poetry
In his twelfth volume of poetry, Bruce Weigl continues his quest for emotional and spiritual enlightenment. Quiet and moving, these poems combine an intimate voice with a searingly direct look at suffering and senseless violence, at human desire and love, and at man's relationship with nature.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Bruce Weigl (born January 27, 1949, Lorain, Ohio) is an American contemporary poet who teaches at Lorain County Community College. Weigl enlisted in the United States Army shortly after his 18th birthday and spent three years in the service. He served in the Vietnam War from December 1967 to December 1968 and received the Bronze Star . When he returned to the United States, Weigl obtained a bachelor's degree from Oberlin College, and a Master of Arts Degree in Writing/American and British Literature from the University of New Hampshire. From 1975-76, Weigl was an instructor at Lorain County Community College in Elyria, Ohio
REVIEWS
"These are hard-edged, partisan works imbued with the spirits of Philip Levine and James Dickey." --Washington Post Book World
— -
"This is the powerful, seldom easy work of a very distinctive poet." --Booklist
— -
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Part One Providence
After the others
Ant
The Happy Land
Praise Wound Dirt Skin Sky
In the Realm of Cricket
The Inexplicable Abandonment of Habit in Eclipse
Prologue in Minor Key, for the Ancestors
What He Said When They Made Him Tell Them Everything
The Latin for Black Widow
The Idea of Form at Spruce Creek
To Adrian from Crow
Wanting Again
Elegy for Her Whose Name You Don't Know
Errata
The Before
River Journal
Anniversary of Myself
For the Anthropologist, Merging
Why I'm Not Afraid
Part Two Our Eden
And we came home
The Choosing of Mozart's Fantasie Over Suicide
Why I Hate Theory
Pineapple
Lost in LA
The Nothing Redemption
Cult of the Car
Gambling
A Foreign Policy
Meditation at Las Cruces after a Day with a Friend Who Sometimes Thinks She Is Fire
Morning at Ca Lu River
The Singing and the Dancing
For the Man with the Snare of the Devil in His Heart
A Brief Ontology
On Not Finding Frost's Grave in the Dark
Elegy for Matthews
Our Independence Day
The Future
Morning of What Would Become the Evening of the Seven Irises
Drinking Song
The happiness of others
Our Lies and Their Beauty
Notes
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC