The Glowing River

by Myers, Jack

• ISBN13: 9780967968391
• ISBN10: 0967968399
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-04-01
• Publisher: Invisible Cities Press Llc

Summary

Enriching the reader's experience, the Contemporary Classics Poetry series prints the best of today's works in beautiful casebound editions. The four poets that start the series are emerging stars who brilliantly point the way in language and imagery.

Author Biography

Jack Myers is the author of seven collections of poetry, including As Long As You're Happy, winner of the 1985 National Poetry Series open competition. He is the director of creative writing at Southern Methodist University and a faculty member of Vermont College’s low-residency MFA program. He lives in Dallas, Texas.

Table of Contents

The Glowing River	1	(3)
New Poems (1999-present)
Parable of the Burden	4	(1)
Whatever You Do	5	(1)
Life Boat	6	(1)
Mindfulness	7	(1)
Pets	8	(1)
The Tao of Light	9	(1)
The Flicker	10	(1)
Spring	11	(1)
Building the Temple	12	(1)
Untitled	13	(1)
Now	14	(1)
I Don't Want You to Feel Listened to	15	(1)
The Sequin	16	(1)
Incarnation	17	(1)
On Purpose	18	(1)
The Blackening	19	(1)
Alchemy	20	(1)
The Never-Mind Life	21	(1)
She Didn't Know and He Never Said	22	(1)
Smoke Break	23	(1)
Eyelash on a Piece of Jade	24	(1)
The Great Work	25	(1)
The Deep Blue Sea of Surrender	26	(1)
The Iridescent Flashings of the Integral One	27	(1)
Catching the Hummingbird	28	(1)
Star Trek	29	(1)
Hanging Water	30	(2)
from The Family War(1977)
Night inside the Hunter	32	(1)
Farmer	33	(1)
Wing to Root	34	(1)
The Family War	35	(1)
An Old Story for My 3-Year-Old Son	36	(1)
When I Held You to My Chest, You Fit	37	(1)
Wind and Soup	38	(1)
Sunbathing	39	(1)
Nanny's Last Years	40	(1)
Leaving	41	(1)
Blue Collar	42	(1)
The Apprentice Painter	43	(1)
Home from the Fish Factory	44	(1)
Numero Uno	45	(1)
The Ant Makes Progress towards Himself	46	(1)
Rerun	47	(3)
from I'm Amazed That You're Still Singing (1981)
Day of Rest	50	(1)
Day of Atonement	51	(1)
What's Left	52	(1)
The Butcher's Hand	53	(1)
The Immigrant	54	(1)
Before Making Love to Me	55	(1)
To a Distant Lover	56	(1)
Answers	57	(1)
The Instinct	58	(1)
The Lover Meets His Desire	59	(1)
Lightweight	60	(1)
Light Sips on Northingness	61	(1)
Being Alive	62	(1)
Call to be Left in the Air	63	(1)
Another Coil	64	(1)
Mockingbird, Copy This	65	(1)
Knock Turn	66	(1)
Something Else	67	(2)
On Nights Like This	69	(1)
Telepathic Note to Poet Friends	70	(2)
from As Long As You're Happy (1986)
Something Solid	72	(1)
Arf	73	(1)
Do You Know What I Mean?	74	(1)
Headache	75	(1)
Where I've Been	76	(1)
Planting Stones	77	(1)
Coming to the Surface	78	(1)
Synchronization	79	(1)
Poem against Good Health	80	(1)
The Correspondence School Poetry Teacher Speaks on the Relationship between Life and Art	81	(1)
Mom Did Marilyn, Dad Did Fred	82	(1)
As Long As You're Happy	83	(1)
I Will Steal Some for Her From You	84	(1)
Leaving the Light On	85	(1)
The Gift	86	(1)
Imbalance	87	(1)
The Diamond Explanation	88	(1)
A Manner of Speaking	89	(1)
Natural Ice Cream	90	(1)
The Diaspora	91	(2)
Like Trees in the Desert	93	(1)
Now, Children, Close Your Books	94	(1)
Most of Us	95	(1)
Contributor's Note	96	(1)
Cross Country	97	(1)
Waiting for the Part with a Bite out of Me to Snap	98	(2)
from Blindsided (1993)
Jake Addresses the World from the Garden	100	(1)
Visitation Rites	101	(1)
Have a Nice Day	102	(1)
Not Thinking of Himself	103	(1)
The Experts	104	(1)
How?	105	(1)
The Wild and Real Agency	106	(1)
Why Don't You Ask Your Father?	107	(1)
The Amazing Obsolete TV Magnifying Viewer	108	(1)
Attack of the Killer Power Tools	109	(2)
Vanishing Days	111	(1)
Sometimes, Sweetie, You Think Too Much	112	(1)
Washed Up	113	(3)
The Energy It Takes to Pass Through Solid Objects	116	(2)
The Stopover	118	(1)
A Living	119	(1)
Supersaver to Atlanta	120	(2)
Looking at Death through Bad Eyes	122	(1)
Please, Not All at Once	123	(1)
From the Luxury Condo on the Sea	124	(2)
100%	126	(2)
Nothing Else	128	(1)
The Radiation of Darkness	129	(1)
The Bambutti: Pygmies of the Congo	130	(1)
Acknowledgments	131