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These vivid narrative and lyrical poems focus on scenes and characters from the coal and steel producing regions of Alabama, an unlikely but rich source for meditations on the hidden emotions of our lives. The iron city is a world in which a child and the people around him are trapped in the mystery of their surroundings, trying to reach toward love, understanding, and clarity. Acclaimed poet John Bensko creates powerful images of enclosed spaces, both physical and emotional, and of the surprising radiance they evoke. Through the central metaphor of a raw material that contains both its history ("Memory of delicate / Ferns, leaves, bones of fishes") and its future ("Coal, the rock that burns"), "The Iron City" explores the chasm between child and adult, musing over veins depleted, resources misused, and the glint of promise deep underground.
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Abandoned Mine
Animal Loose Along The Parkway
Another Set Of Existential Metaphors About The City
Brookside, Alabama
Cinema Verite
Digging It
Do You Know What High School You Went To?
Fingernails
Free Delivery
The Hidden Street
The Implied Author
Independent Miner
The Iron City
Late Shift
Mail Bomb
The Missing Foot
Night Tennis
The Old Stanton Place
On Graymont Avenue
The Ornamental Iron Works And Museum
Owning A House
Plaster Of Paris
The Priest At The Mine
Quiet Please
Rage For Order
The Roofer
Rothko: 1
Rothko: 2
Rothko: 3
The Secrets Of Animals
Swinging Bridge
Trailer
The Victims Of Love
The Wall
West Memphis, Southland Track
What The Children Saw And Heard
The Window Man
Winter Scene
Yellow Fever Cemetery
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®
Animal Loose Along The Parkway
Another Set Of Existential Metaphors About The City
Brookside, Alabama
Cinema Verite
Digging It
Do You Know What High School You Went To?
Fingernails
Free Delivery
The Hidden Street
The Implied Author
Independent Miner
The Iron City
Late Shift
Mail Bomb
The Missing Foot
Night Tennis
The Old Stanton Place
On Graymont Avenue
The Ornamental Iron Works And Museum
Owning A House
Plaster Of Paris
The Priest At The Mine
Quiet Please
Rage For Order
The Roofer
Rothko: 1
Rothko: 2
Rothko: 3
The Secrets Of Animals
Swinging Bridge
Trailer
The Victims Of Love
The Wall
West Memphis, Southland Track
What The Children Saw And Heard
The Window Man
Winter Scene
Yellow Fever Cemetery
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®
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- PublisherUniversity of Illinois Press
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0252025547
- ISBN 13 9780252025549
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages76
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