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David Clewell’s spirited poems cut through the noise we too often accommodate in our daily lives. Breath by surprising breath, this poet takes us into chambers of the heart that have never been mapped quite this way before. By turns raucous and strangely soothing, narrative and lyrical, Clewell traffics in unlikely and compelling details of our mostly discernible world: a school custodian’s role in the burgeoning Space Race, the vastness of abandoned missile silos, the first lawn flamingos, and the living fossil still using a typewriter.
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David Clewell is author of seven previous collections of poetry, including The Low End of Higher Things and Now We're Getting Somewhere, 1994 winner of the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry. He is Poet Laureate of Missouri as well as pro
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Just shy of fifty years since it arrived,
the classic pink flamingo’s gone extinct,done in by the rising cost of plasticand unrelenting flood of Chinese knockoffs.—from “The Flamingos Have Left the Building”© The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System. All rights reserved. At Hamilton Elementary we watched every Mercury launchbetween the Pledge of Allegiance and our ration of morning milkon the battered TV that janitor Geiss always lugged into our room,trailing a whiff of the Lucky Strikes that somehow kept him goingin the humble boiler-room office he liked to call his very ownMission Control. The entire class would count down togetheruntil the launch-tower fell away, the rocket-booster fuel ignitingwith the kind of brilliant firepower that in those days never failedto lift our skittish hearts into our throats. We were suckersfor anything astronautical—the suits, the helmets, the very ideaof leaving the outmoded Earth behind us for a while. We’d cometo live for the chance of escaping the pull of preadolescent gravity.—from “Home Movies of the Space Race”© The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System. All rights reserved."About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
- PublisherUniversity of Wisconsin Press
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 0299251144
- ISBN 13 9780299251147
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages131
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