Dark Horses : New Poems

by Kennedy, X. J.

• ISBN13: 9780801844850
• ISBN10: 0801844851
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1992-12-01
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr

Summary

In Dark Horsesprize-winning poet X. I. Kennedy gathers forty-two new poems rich in sound and sense. All display uncommon skill and an ability to treat matters both timeless and contemporary.

Author Biography

X. J. Kennedy's first collection, Nude Descending a Staircase (1961), won the Lamont Award of the Academy of American Poets. His most recent collection. Cross Ties: Selected Poems (1985), received the Los Angeles Times book award for poetry. His verse has appeared in more than three hundred magazines and anthologies. Kennedy has also written ten children's books and several widely adopted college textbooks, including An Introduction to Poetry.

Table of Contents

Woman in Rain	p. 3
The Arm	p. 4
Twelve Dead, Hundreds Homeless	p. 6
The Waterbury Cross	p. 7
For Jed	p. 8
Veterinarian	p. 9
City Churchyard	p. 11
For a Small Boy's Stone	p. 13
The Animals You Eat	p. 14
Snug	p. 16
Invasion and Retreat	p. 18
War Newscast in St. Thomas	p. 19
Overnight Pass	p. 21
Two from Apollinaire
Pont Mirabeau	p. 22
Churchbells	p. 24
To the Writers Forbidden to Write	p. 25
Terse Elegy for J. V. Cunningham	p. 26
Long Distance	p. 27
Separated Banks	p. 28
On Being Accused of Wit	p. 30
On the Liquidation of the Mustang Ranch by the Internal Revenue Service	p. 33
Rotten Reveille	p. 34
Song: Enlightenment	p. 35
Speculating Woman	p. 37
Family Reunion	p. 38
Emily Dickinson Leaves a Message to the World, Now That Her Homestead in Amherst Has an Answering Machine	p. 39
Dancing with the Poets at Piggy's	p. 40
Rat	p. 47
The Withdrawn Gift	p. 48
On the Square	p. 49
City-Quitter	p. 51
Empty House Singing to Itself	p. 53
The Woodpile Skull	p. 54
Dump	p. 56
Summer Children	p. 58
Tableau Intime	p. 59
Christmas Abrupted	p. 61
Staring into a River Till Moved by It	p. 62
Coming Close to Drowning	p. 64
Finis	p. 65
Black Velvet Art	p. 66
Winter Thunder	p. 68
Ambition	p. 69
Acknowledgments	p. 71
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