Twenty first century blues / Richard Cecil.
2004
PS3553.E32 T94 2004eb
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Title
Twenty first century blues / Richard Cecil.
Author
ISBN
9780809388813 (electronic bk.)
0809388812 (electronic bk.)
0809325969
9780809325962
0809325977
9780809325979
0809388812 (electronic bk.)
0809325969
9780809325962
0809325977
9780809325979
Imprint
Carbondale : Crab Orchard Review : Southern Illinois University Press, ©2004.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (viii, 98 pages)
Call Number
PS3553.E32 T94 2004eb
System Control No.
(OCoLC)828870138
Summary
Death, fame, art, and religion become comic subjects in Twenty First Century Blues, the fourth collection from Richard Cecil. Whether elegizing his predecessors, predicting his own end, channeling Dickinson's "corpse-eye-view of stony death," or imagining Yeats living in Indiana and dealing with English department politics, Cecil tempers his morbidity with a straightforward, tender brand of humor and a refreshing honesty about the shelf life of contemporary poetry. Deadpan and dark, yet pulsing with the spirit of life, these poems speak of historic France, Italy, and Swit
Formatted Contents Note
Lament for the makers
Catechism
Albi cathedral
Limbo
Let's pretend
Anti ode to autumn
Discuss "divine justice in The Inferno"
Fool's gold
The funeral director : against cremation
The worst day of the year
Portrait of five women and a cat
The writing requirement
To the poet who skipped my reading & died
A letter to William Butler Yeats
Package tour
There's no place like home
Almost an apartment in Antibes
Evolution in Indiana
Heaven
As you like it
Let's go!
A rare bird
Where am I?
The Tower of Babel
Internal exile
Written in exile
Falling off the wagon
A Christmas poem
Holy sonnet
On being asked to contribute to the Idiot's guide to poetry
Sailing to Pesaro
2001 : HAL, meet Dell
Summer faculty enrichment grant application
Meditation on a half-line of Shakespeare's
Letter of recommendation
A lesson in generosity
Contrary elegy
Summer diet
Oona
Ghosts in the kitchen
Roots
Happy birthday, Richard!
The diver
Final exercise
the rain poem
November's advice
Flying home
Twenty-first century blues.
Catechism
Albi cathedral
Limbo
Let's pretend
Anti ode to autumn
Discuss "divine justice in The Inferno"
Fool's gold
The funeral director : against cremation
The worst day of the year
Portrait of five women and a cat
The writing requirement
To the poet who skipped my reading & died
A letter to William Butler Yeats
Package tour
There's no place like home
Almost an apartment in Antibes
Evolution in Indiana
Heaven
As you like it
Let's go!
A rare bird
Where am I?
The Tower of Babel
Internal exile
Written in exile
Falling off the wagon
A Christmas poem
Holy sonnet
On being asked to contribute to the Idiot's guide to poetry
Sailing to Pesaro
2001 : HAL, meet Dell
Summer faculty enrichment grant application
Meditation on a half-line of Shakespeare's
Letter of recommendation
A lesson in generosity
Contrary elegy
Summer diet
Oona
Ghosts in the kitchen
Roots
Happy birthday, Richard!
The diver
Final exercise
the rain poem
November's advice
Flying home
Twenty-first century blues.
Access Note
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Reproduction
Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
System Details Note
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. (http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212)
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Source of Description
Print version record.
Series
Crab Orchard award series in poetry.
Available in Other Form
Print version: Cecil, Richard, 1944- Twenty first century blues. Carbondale : Crab Orchard Review : Southern Illinois University Press, ©2004
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