Men Holding Eggs

by HUGHES, HENRY

• ISBN13: 9781595390011
• ISBN10: 1595390014
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-11-30
• Publisher: Small Pr Distribution

Summary

Poetry. A refreshingly accessible collection of narrative poetry describing the love, violence, and fragility of men's lives. Beginning with young adventures on Long Island, the characters take their passions for animals, moons, water and women to lives in Indiana, South Dakota, Japan and China. Li-Young Lee writes: "Henry Hughes has had a very complete encounter with the sayable sum of his experiences. The writing is gorgeous and masterful."

Table of Contents

I Men Holding Eggs
Men Holding Eggs	3	(1)
The Tree House	4	(1)
Calling Down the Geese	5	(1)
Leaves of Sound	6	(1)
Holy Gray Rising	7	(1)
After It Burns	8	(2)
On The Wabash	10	(1)
Ice	11	(2)
The Penguin	13	(4)
II Home
The Welder	17	(1)
Working on The Cable Team	18	(2)
Skydiving	20	(1)
Dark Spring	21	(1)
Captain Frank	22	(1)
Softball	23	(1)
In Honor of This Church	24	(1)
Accidental Ferry	25	(2)
Old Field Point	27	(1)
This Is An Ant	28	(3)
III Glistening Fur
God Is a Squirrel	31	(1)
Holiday	32	(1)
In The Doghouse	33	(1)
Glistening Fur	34	(2)
Crane Moon	36	(1)
Gar	37	(1)
The Eyes Behind Ignite	38	(1)
The Fox	39	(2)
Music For The Shark	41	(1)
Digging Up The Old Signal Line	42	(1)
Cassandra	43	(4)
IV Away
At Dawn In Beijing	47	(1)
Waiting Through Summer	48	(1)
Blackout	49	(1)
New Year's At Bei Dai He	50	(1)
The Wall	51	(1)
Goldfish	52	(1)
The Fragmentary Memory of Scales	53	(1)
Eating Whale	54	(1)
The Deer's Voice	55	(1)
This Woman	56	(1)
Trance	57	(4)
Birch Hilton	61	(4)
V Frozen Aperture
On A Painting By Wang Mu	65	(1)
Frozen Aperture	66	(1)
The Darwins Love To Play Backgammon	67	(1)
Once There Were Great Birds In The World	68	(2)
Joe Louis	70	(1)
Talking To The Tortoise	71	(1)
A Father Shot	72	(1)
Hotel Dreaming In Wall, South Dakota	73	(2)
On Audubon's Passenger Pigeon	75