Cross Ties (The Contemporary Poetry Ser.) - Softcover

Kennedy, X. J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0820307386 ISBN 13: 9780820307381

Publisher: University of Georgia Press, 1985

Synopsis

Poems from three decades cover nature, the American dream, the past, love, religion, family life, sanity, death, and dreams

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Absentminded Bartender
The Aged Wino's Counsel To A Young Man ...
Airport In The Grass
Among Stool Pidgeons
Ant Trap
Ars Poetica
Artificer
At Brown Crane Pavilion
At The Last Rites For Two Hot-rodders
The Atheist's Stigmata
Aunt Rectita's Good Friday
The Autumn In Norfolk Shipyard
B Negative
Barking Dog Blues
A Beardsley Moment
Best Seller
Brats
Bulsh
Carrying On Without Him
Categories
Celebrations After The Death Of John Brennan
Consumer's Report
Crawfish
Creation Morning
Crocodile
Cross Ties
Daughter In The House
The Death Of Professor Backwards
The Devil's Advice To Poets
Dirty English Potatoes
Drivers Of Diaper Service Trucks Are Sad
Driving Cross-country
Edgar's Story
Emily Dickinson In Southern California
Envoi
Epiphany
Evening Tide
Faces From A Bestiary
Fall Song
First Confession
Flagellant's Song
Flesh Is Grass
Flitting Flies
A Footpath Near Gethsemane
For A Maiden Lady
Giving In To You
Goblet
Gold Bought Here
Great Chain Of Being
Hangover Mass
In A Dry Season
In A Prominent Bar In Secaucus One Day
In A Secret Field
Japanese Beetles
Joshua
King Tut
The Korean Emergency
Ladies Looking For Lice
Last Child
Last Lines
Last Lines: 3. On A Wrestler
Lewis Carroll
Lilith
Lion
Little Elegy; For A Child Who Skipped Rope
Lizabet's Song To The Senate
Loose Woman
Main Road West
The Medium Is The Message
Mining Town
Mother's Nerves
Narcissus Suitor
National Shrine
No Neutral Stone
Not Marble
Nothing In Heaven Functions As It Ought
Nude Descending A Staircase
O'riley's Late-bloomed Little Son
October
Ode
Old Men Pitching Horseshoes
On A Child Who Lived One Minute
On The Proposed Seizure Of Twelve Graves
Onan's Soliloquy
One A.m. With Voices
One-night Homecoming
Ool About To Proclaim A Parable
Peace And Plenty
The Phantom Of Woodland Homes
Poets
Pottery Class
Reading Trip
Reunion
Robert Frost Discovers Another Road Not Taken
Rondel
Schizophrenic Girl
The Self-exposed
The Shorter View
Should All Of This Come True
Similes
The Sirens
Snowflake Souffle
Solitary Confinement
Song To The Tune Of 'somebody Stole My Gal'
Talking Dust Bowl
Theater Of Dionysus
To A Forgetful Wishing Well
To Dorothy On Her Exclusion From The Guinness Book ...
To The One-eyed Poets
Transparency
Two Apparitions
Two Doorbells
Two Views Of Rhyme And Meter
Uncle Ool's Complaint Against The Ill-paid Life Of Verse
A Visit To The Gingerbread House
Vulture
West Somerville, Mass.
What She Told The Sheriff
Where Will We Run To
You Touch Me
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Publication date: 1985
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0820307386
• ISBN 13: 9780820307381
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 168