Then & now : poems

Then & now : poems / James Cummins.

James Cummins's first book of poems, The Whole Truth, became known throughout much of the poetry world as the "Perry Mason sestinas." His second book, Portrait in a Spoon, was chosen by Richard Howard for the James Dickey Prize Contemporary Poetry Series. His latest and most accomplis...

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Main Author: Cummins, James
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Athens, Ohio : Swallow Press, ©2004.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
American literature.
American poetry.
FICTION > General.
American literature
American poetry
Online Access:Click for online access
Table of Contents:
  • Spoken Nervously by Torchlight to Angry Villagers; We'll Always Have Paris; Lullaby of Broadway; Spring Comes to Hamilton Avenue; From a Notebook; Poster Children; To Helen Vendler and Jorie Graham at Harvard; Tails; The World's Trade; Scene at the End of the World; Home Fires; Collegiality; Orpheus Picks Up His Dry Cleaning; Weary Orpheus; Orpheus Watches His Daughter Blow Out Candles; Orpheus Fixes Himself a Cup of Tea; Tattoo; Echo; Elegy; Donut Life; Solstice Moon; Practical Immortalities; Now and Then; Prayer for My Daughters; After These Messages; Doing Lunch.
  • Bay Bus Terminal, San Francisco, 1974Epithalamium for a Teacher; Old Man; Nurses; The Player; Against Wordplay; Doherty Christmas Show; Poetry Reading; Edmund Wilson and His Wife, Elena, Have Dinner with Edna St. Vincent Millay and Her Husband, Eugen Boissevain, August 6, 1948; Parasite; Dream with Fred Astaire; Song; Needs; For Margaret; The Clockmaker; Notes.

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