A Farm Under Poplars: Poems

by Todd, Patrick

• ISBN13: 9780910055680
• ISBN10: 0910055688
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-11-01
• Publisher: Carnegie Mellon Univ Pr

Summary

In this, his third book of poems, Patrick Todd reveals powers of recall that match exactly his will both to face and to reassure "things that never leave the mind", the authentic dramas of memory and invention. Like Philip Levine, he shows how memory erupts at unexpected moments, aroused by the changing artifacts of time and circumstance, and how the dignity of common labor must be rescued from despair.

Deftly folding image into image, Todd shows us how, through clarity, we may come to understand the unity of experience. No matter how fragmentary and isolated life may often seem, it is a dance of whimsy and yearning and A Farm Under Poplars welcomes us, again, to its charms.

Table of Contents

A Horse Below The Cliff	1	(2)
Purple Crocus	2	(1)
The Doctor's Mistress	3	(1)
Bright Red Truck	4	(2)
Body And Soul	6	(2)
Blackfoot Tavern	8	(1)
Brighton Beach	9	(1)
Coyote	10	(1)
Country House	11	(1)
First Wheel	12	(1)
The Floating Bicycle	13	(2)
Stoking A Zinc Furnace	15	(1)
Dandy Bantam	16	(4)
Tire Dump	20	(2)
Two Black Percherons	22	(1)
Haight Street, 1968	23	(1)
Brehan	24	(1)
Portland	25	(1)
Jim's Used Cars	26	(1)
Breaking And Entering	27	(1)
Invention Of The Light Bulb	28	(1)
Jimmy Kuffel	29	(2)
Teakwood	31	(2)
Cannon Hill Pond	33	(1)
Lagan And The Far Geese	34	(1)
A Girl In Mississippi	35	(1)
Church Shaped Like A Clam	36	(2)
The Ghost Of Jesus	38	(1)
Cheese On Rye	39	(2)
Waiting For The Bus	41	(1)
Goat With A Zinc Bell	42	(1)
The Wonder Of Silver	43	(1)
Whatever Happened To Tsoltem	44	(1)
Lea	45	(2)
Barn Wedding	47	(2)
Home Before Dark	49	(1)
Search Party	50	(2)
Walking Down The Street	52	(1)
Deer Meat	53	(2)
Man On A Horse	55	(1)
Winter Sparrows	56	(1)
A Doe Behind The Trees	57	(1)
Home	58	(2)
Andy White	60	(3)
The Plumber	63	(2)
A Farm Under Poplars	65	(1)
Wedding In Late Winter	66	(2)
Lights In The Circus Trailers	68	(4)
Brooklyn	72	(1)
Trumpet	73	(1)
Swan White Mansion	74	(2)
Purple Sequins	76