Once upon a Small-Town Time

by Brodsky, Louis Daniel

• ISBN13: 9781568091167
• ISBN10: 1568091168
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-09-15
• Publisher: Time Being Books

Summary

Poetry. "As the title of this collection suggests, the poems in Louis Daniel Brodsky's ONCE UPON A SMALL-TOWN TIME have a soothing sort of lullaby quality characteristic of bedtime tales. Conceived as a metaphoric road trip through three Midwestern towns and across a quarter century, the poems are steeped in an uplifting nostalgia, but without the cloying sentimentality. The observations are fond, even wistful, but never anything but fair and clear and unexaggerated in their effect"--Charles Rammelkamp.

Author Biography

Brodsky is the author of fifty-six volumes of poetry (five of which have been published in French by +ditions Gallimard) and twenty-three volumes of prose, including nine books of scholarship on William Faulkner and seven books of short fictions. His poems and essays have appeared in Harper's, The Faulkner Review, Southern Review, Texas Quarterly, National Forum, American Scholar, Studies in Bibliography, Kansas Quarterly, Ball State University's Forum, Cimarron Review, and Literary Review, as well as in Ariel, Acumen, Orbis, New Welsh Review, Dalhousie Review, and other journals. His work has also been printed in five editions of the Anthology of Magazine Verse and Yearbook of American Poetry.

Table of Contents

Passing Through	p. 17
Tipton, Missouri 1972-1982
On the Road
Exultations	p. 23
Hidden Treasures	p. 25
Egg Tempera	p. 26
The Midwest Calls Me Home, for a Rest	p. 27
"Where the Butterfield Stage Met the Rail"
Rails	p. 31
Country Cemetery	p. 33
Genealogies	p. 35
The Isle of Lesbos	p. 36
Intimations	p. 38
Tortoise and Hare	p. 39
4:10 Freight to K.C.	p. 40
The Auction	p. 41
Haystacks	p. 43
The Old Trouser Factory	p. 45
The Open Road	p. 46
Jacksonville, Illinois 1965-1981
On the Road
The Prodigal Children	p. 51
Designs in Storm Time	p. 54
Traveling to the Capital City	p. 55
Citadel	p. 56
"The Elm City"
A Sunny Pre-Easter Saturday in Town	p. 61
In Bib Overalls, Work Shirt, and Boots	p. 62
Sunday in the Flower Shop	p. 63
The Blind Man and the Square	p. 64
Homecoming	p. 65
The Closing of Sorrill's Elm City Cafe'	p. 66
WJIL Country Music Month Parade	p. 67
Looking Both Ways, Along West Morton	p. 70
The Old Lady on the Square	p. 72
Farmington, Missouri 1972-1988
On the Road
Song of the Open Road	p. 79
Breaking Through	p. 81
Rites of Passage	p. 82
Driving into Twilight	p. 83
"City of Tradition & Progress"
Keepers of the Castle	p. 87
Putting in the Garden	p. 88
Retrieving Leaves	p. 89
Crossing Guard	p. 91
Change of Hands	p. 93
Mrs. Boswell	p. 94
628 West Columbia	p. 97
Getting in Shape	p. 98
Glory's Hour	p. 99
Always the Same Old Thing	p. 101
Emigres	p. 102
History's Tree	p. 105
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