Long Gone: Poems

by Stuart, Dabney

• ISBN13: 9780807121214
• ISBN10: 0807121215
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-11-01
• Publisher: Louisiana State Univ Pr

Summary

From its haunted opening to the complex affirmation of its final lines, this profound collection by Dabney Stuart presents a palimpsest of the spirit in the modern age. With jagged syncopations, lyrical stop-time, and a kind of elegiac swing, these poems spiral through multiple dimensions of time, memory, and emotion--from post World War II America to the South Pacific--evoking perspectives of the psyche as brooding and cryptic as the Antarctic.

Table of Contents

Foreplay	p. 1
Fig	p. 3
Bedtime Story	p. 4
A Few Good Women	p. 5
How Loss Works	p. 7
Appetites: Variations	p. 8
Forecast	p. 12
Recess	p. 14
New Zealand	p. 15
The Woman on the Fire Escape	p. 17
Janus	p. 18
Gull	p. 19
Cells	p. 21
Don't Throw Me in the Briar Patch	p. 24
Desolation	p. 26
Grief	p. 27
Anger Down Under	p. 28
Brothers	p. 31
Figure on the Edge	p. 34
Rough Places	p. 35
Making Honey	p. 38
Everyday Life	p. 43
Long Gone	p. 44
Tane Mahuta	p. 49
Staying in Touch	p. 51
Fish Magic	p. 54
Grubbing Thistle	p. 56
Double Exposures	p. 58
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