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Shallcross
Title:
Shallcross
Author:
Wright, C. D., 1949-2016, author.
ISBN:
9781556594960
Physical Description:
xvi, 153 pages ; 24 cm
Abstract:
"In a turbulent world, C.D. Wright evokes a rebellious and dissonant ethos with characteristic genre-bending and expanding long-form poems. Accessing journalistic writing alongside filmic narratives, Wright ranges across seven poetic sequences, including a collaborative suite responding to photographic documentation of murder sites in New Orleans. ShallCross shows plain as day that C.D. Wright is our most thrilling and innovative poet."--Amazon.com.
Contents:
Some old words were spoken -- 40 watts -- Poem with evening coming on -- Light bulb poem -- Cafe at the junction poem -- Country station poem -- Poem with undergrowth and two figures -- Poem taking place before lights were electrified -- Amarillo poem -- Poem in which blood flows -- Poem with a cloudburst -- Day-old widow poem -- Poem in which the lover -- Poem of a houseboat stranded in a field -- Kind of blue poem -- This much I know poem -- Outlier's poem -- Her toes poem -- Poem waiting for sleep -- Pure sensation poem -- Soldiers' home poem -- Poem with some water damage -- Dog put down in fall poem -- Poem with a dead tree -- Poem from Pearl's house -- Poem with a dozen cherries on a lodge -- Water baby poem -- Poem missing someone -- Poem with no up or down -- Poem with a dart of color -- Poem in which every other line is a falsehood -- Poem with a girl almost fifteen -- Poem from the end of Old Wire Road -- Poem in a trance -- Poem with a missing pilot -- Poem in which her mortgage comes due -- Back forty poem -- Rooming house poem -- Downtown in January poem -- Poem starved for music -- Poem without angel food -- Poem of a forest of clouds sweeping by -- Breathtaken -- The other hand -- Obscurity and empathy -- Obscurity and regret -- Obscurity and elegance -- The shearline of obscurity -- Obscurity and shelter -- Obscurity and isolation -- Obscurity and providence -- Obscurity and selfhood -- Obscurity and the amateur -- Obscurity and velocity from The obscure lives of poets -- Obscurity and voyaging -- Tree of obscurity -- Obscurity and an offering -- Obscurity and lockdown -- Obscurity and landscape -- Obscurity and aftershocks -- Obscurity and winter sun -- Obscurity and snow -- Obscurity and legacy -- Obscurity and operation upshot-knothole -- From the belly of a lamb -- Imaginary August -- Imaginary Hollywood -- Imaginary morning glory -- Imaginary waterfall -- Imaginary suitcase -- Imaginary rope -- Imaginary June -- Imaginary Mexico -- Closer -- Shallcross. --