The Gossamer

by Hicks, Patrick

• ISBN13: 9781903392829
• ISBN10: 1903392829
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-09-15
• Publisher: Salmon Poetry

Summary

Patrick Hicks explores how we are born into history, how we spin our stories and struggle against failure, and also how throwaway moments can shimmer with unexpected beauty through poetry.

Table of Contents

Webbing of the Past
Lipstick Traces	p. 11
Carrying Grandpa	p. 13
Shoes and Flowers	p. 14
Nourishment	p. 15
Sitting on the Berlin Wall	p. 17
Travelling Through a Weightless Battlefield	p. 18
Not Springing Forward in Barcelona	p. 19
Learning to Spin
Spelling Lesson	p. 23
How to Draw a Map	p. 24
History Lessons	p. 25
Untitled	p. 30
Empire	p. 31
Footprints on the Moon	p. 32
Umbra Sumus	p. 33
Reading the Tain	p. 34
Recommendation for the Future Health of Poetry	p. 35
The Physics of Poetry	p. 36
Draglines
The Kiss That Saved My Life	p. 39
Hide Your Love Away	p. 41
Trying to Preserve Brian Moore's House	p. 43
Waiting for My Wife on a December Evening	p. 44
The Corpse	p. 46
Looking at a Calendar and Picking Out a Day to Die	p. 47
Strolling through Woodlawn Cemetery with My Wife	p. 48
Upon Waking from a Dream where One of My Students Is Naked	p. 49
The God of War	p. 50
The Gossamer
Sunday Morning in Barcelona	p. 53
Second Wind	p. 55
The Sand Castle	p. 56
Eating the Zoo	p. 58
At the Telephone Museum in Prairietown, Minnesota	p. 59
Upon Seeing the Saint John's Bible	p. 61
Winter Counts	p. 62
Postcard to James Joyce	p. 63
Why He Gathers Teacups	p. 64
The Wife Speaks of Her Husband Poet	p. 65
How to be a God	p. 66
Tekkai	p. 68
7 Letter Name	p. 69
Travelling with My Father	p. 70
Three Events	p. 73
Twin Cities	p. 74
Peonies	p. 75
Concepcion	p. 77
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