Kingdoms of the Ordinary (Pitt Poetry Series) - Softcover

Wilson, Robley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0822953919 ISBN 13: 9780822953913

Publisher: Univ of Pittsburgh Pr, 1987

Synopsis

Poems deal with grief, love, children, anger, aging, work, music, fall, the opera, animals, literature, women, and exile

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After Cards
The Animals
Armatures
At Night
The Black Cat
Bone
Boundaries
Burning Over, Coming Back
The Call Of Some Creature
Demon Lovers
The Desire For Servants
The Emigre
Endsong
Farm Pond
A Fear Of Children
The Folly Of Poetry
Geode
Hanging Curtains: Variations On A Theme Of Tolstoy
I Know I Will Weep Forever
The Immortalist
The Islands
It Is Nothing To Live Alone
The Kingdom Of The Ordinary
A Lady In Charcoal
A Letter From Exile
A Literary Lesson
The Marauder
The Military-industrial Complex
Mother Goose In A Late Age
Moving Back
The Mozart Broadcast
October
On Not Knowing The Names Of The Flowers In Montana
One-part Invention
The Opera
The Persistence Of Desire
Persons
The Plot To Blow Up New Haven
Preserves
Recluse
The Rejoicing That Attends The Murder Of Famous Men
The Rocking Chair
Something Of Love
Sparrow Hills
Sunday At The Shore
The Suspense Of Meeting
Three Dreams
Us And The Animals
The Wedding Ring
Weekends At The Cove
A Woman
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

From Library Journal:

Wilson's collection of short fiction, Dancing for Men ( LJ 12/15/82 ), won the Drue Heinz Prize; with this, winner of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize for first book of poetry, he becomes the first writer ever to win both prizes offered by Univeristy of Pittsburgh Press. What is even more impressive is the excellence of his poetry. The narrative voice, the ability to create believable characterssometimes through description alone, sometimes through long meditative poems in others' voicescarries over from his fiction. Poems in women's voices are especially sensitive. With all the innocence of childhood yet an adult's knowledge, these poems strike a delicate balance. A first kiss "changed the world of facts/ Into nonsense" and Wilson is not at all apologetic. Highly recommended. Rochelle Ratner, formerly Poetry Editor, "Soho Weekly News," New York
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About this edition

• Publisher: Univ of Pittsburgh Pr
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0822953919
• ISBN 13: 9780822953913
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 89