Autumn Rhythm

by Stokesbury, Leon

• ISBN13: 9781557284372
• ISBN10: 1557284377
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-07-01
• Publisher: Univ of Arkansas Pr

Summary

In this selection of poems written over a period of thirty years, Leon Stokesbury sees the horror in death, and in the inescapable process of mutability, but finds also the dark joke at the center of things, and the chance for redemptive laughter.

Author Biography

Leon Stokesbury teaches in the graduate creative writing program at Georgia State University.

Table of Contents

Fall	p. 3
An Inkling	p. 4
Evening's End	p. 11
The Garden Path	p. 16
The Royal Nonesuch	p. 17
Felliniesque	p. 20
Jaques Lured by Audrey	p. 22
Bottom's Dream	p. 23
Glendower Ponders the Vasty Deep	p. 26
Reynaldo in Paris	p. 28
Pro Quo/Fortuna's Fool	p. 29
I Greet You/Morte D'Arthur	p. 30
Room with a View/Primer Litter	p. 31
Old Times There/Homework	p. 32
Dark Blurb of the Soul	p. 33
For My Daughter	p. 34
The Legacy	p. 36
Lauds	p. 40
City Lights	p. 42
Autumn Rhythm	p. 48
The Pear	p. 50
Ready to Satisfy All Your Bereavement Needs	p. 51
This Print of Durer's	p. 55
Little Keats Soliloquy	p. 56
Often in Different Landscapes	p. 57
The Murder of Gonzago and His Friends	p. 58
What It Feels Like to Live in This Country to Me	p. 59
Footlight Parade	p. 60
California	p. 61
What the New Chef Said	p. 62
To Laura Phelan: 1880-1906	p. 63
Song of the Incredible Lonzo	p. 64
But Once in Special	p. 65
Gifts	p. 66
Religious Poem	p. 67
On the Comeback Trail	p. 68
Why I Find Myself Immersed in Few Traditions	p. 69
The Zany	p. 70
The Lamar Tech Football Team Has Won Its Game	p. 74
East Texas	p. 75
To All Those Considering Coming to Fayetteville	p. 76
Summer in Fairbanks	p. 77
The North Slope	p. 78
The Polar Bear	p. 80
To His Book	p. 81
Unsent Message to My Brother in His Pain	p. 85
Day Begins at Governor's Square Mall	p. 86
Adventures in Bronze	p. 88
If I Could Open You	p. 90
The Luncheon of the Boating Party	p. 91
The Lover Remembereth Such as He Sometime Enjoyed and Showeth How He Would Like to Enjoy Her Again	p. 94
Morning Song	p. 95
Semi-Sentimental Thank You Note Sent over a Long Distance	p. 96
A Skeptical View of the Tarot	p. 98
This Other	p. 99
A Funny Joke	p. 100
The Drifting Away of All We Once Held Essential	p. 102
A Few Words for Frank Stanford: 1948-1978	p. 104
Airport Bars	p. 108
Robert Rickert Wrote Back	p. 113
Chance of Showers	p. 115
The Party's End	p. 119
Senor Wences and the Man in the Box	p. 123
Notes	p. 127
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