The Silent Singer: New and Selected Poems (Illinois Poetry Series) - Hardcover

Roberts, Len

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 025202639X ISBN 13: 9780252026393

Publisher: University of Illinois Press, 2001

Synopsis

Winner of several major awards, including the Guggenheim, National Endowment for the Arts, and National Poetry Series, Len Roberts is a powerful and uncompromising poet whose work redeems a turbulent past. "The Silent Singer" offers the best of Roberts's past work as well as a sizable collection of new poems.

About this title

About the Author:

Roberts is a professor of English.

Review:

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Acupuncture And Cleansing At Forty-eight
After The Second Operation
All Day Cutting Wood, Thinking
And Where Were You
Anointing Her Five Senses
Another Spring On Olmstead Street
April Dusk
At The Train Tracks
Bergstresser's Yard Sale
The Black Wings
Building The Barn Door
The Cellar
Climbing The Three Hills In Search Of The Best Christmas Tre
Cohoes: Part 1, Pigeons
Contemplating Again The Jade Chrysanthemum
The Copper Frog
Correcting The Lisp
Crickets Persisting
Dear Hayden
Doing The Laundry
Dumb Wren
Elmer
Emma In The Class On Reproduction
Fall
First Kiss
The Five Steps In Proving The Existence Of God
Flashings
The Flying Monk In Flames
For Me
The Forgiving
Gift Shop In Pecs, Hungary
Gold Carp
He's Alone
Hearing The Girl Story While Shoveling Snow
Ice Man, 1931
In The Mind Of God
Joey Mcgraw's Desk, 1960
Knots
Learning On Olmstead Street
Learning Our Places In The Hierarchy Of Angels
Learning The Leaves
Learning The Planets
Learning To Write In Cursive With A Fountain Pen
The List Of Most Difficult Words
The Long Ride Home
Looking Up
Making Galumpkis
Mockingbird
The Moment
More Walnuts, Late October
My Father's Whistle
My Mother Catalogues The Wrongs
My Son Insisted
My Uncle Chauncey Drove My Aunt Eleanor
The Old Marriage
On Hearing That We Were All Boundless, Unimaginable Energy
Passing The Orange
Pathways
Pennsylvania January
Periwinkle Here In Wassergass
Pip
Polishing The Work Boots
Pregnant, She Dances
The Problem
Pushing Cars Out Of The Snow
Pyracantha
Rain Wash
Second-grade Angel
The Servant
The Seven Steps
A Shoe In The Road, Autumn's
Shoveling While The Snow Keeps Falling
The Silent Singer
Sister Ann Zita Shows Us The Foolishness Of The Forbidden Books
Snapper, Wassergass
Spring Again
Spring Peepers, April, Wassergass
Stuffed Peppers
Sweet Ones
Taking Inventory As She Weeds
Talking On The Telephone
Talking To The Poison Sumac
Tapping In The Seed
Ten Below
This And That
This Spring
The Tools
The Trouble-making Finch
Turning Off The Christmas Window Candles
The Way I Always Liked It
The Way Of The Cross
We Sat, So Patient
What The Hell
When The Dead Speak
Working The Counter At The Cohoes Drive-in
The Yellow Of Mulberry
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 025202639X
• ISBN 13: 9780252026393
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 166