Red and Yellow Boat: Poems

by Petrosky, Anthony

• ISBN13: 9780807118313
• ISBN10: 0807118311
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-03-01
• Publisher: Louisiana State Univ Pr

Summary

In Red and Yellow Boat, his second book, Anthony Petrosky, winner of the 1982 Walt Whitman Award of The Academy of American Poets for Jurgis Petraskas, weaves together themes of class and family conflict, unity and brotherhood, love, suffering, and transformation.

Table of Contents

The Februaries	p. 1
March	p. 2
14 Wyandotte	p. 3
The Unpredictability of Comfort and Tradition	p. 4
The Man Who Looked Like My Father	p. 6
Shanghai Four Mornings	p. 8
My Father Says	p. 11
Beginning with a Journal Entry and a History Book	p. 13
Mother and Sons	p. 14
Two Things	p. 15
The Visit	p. 16
Red and Yellow Boat	p. 17
Here	p. 18
The Old Neighborhood	p. 19
11/10/89	p. 20
My Father's Voice	p. 21
Money	p. 22
Holiday Spirits	p. 23
Love's Old Sweet Song	p. 24
Shirley	p. 25
While	p. 26
Days	p. 27
When the Sadness Came	p. 28
Holding Together	p. 29
Getting Ben Ready for Bed	p. 31
He Woke	p. 32
Joy	p. 33
Switch Days	p. 34
The Love Between Us	p. 35
Morning Eclogues	p. 36
Talking with My Son Matthew About School	p. 44
Rituals	p. 45
Narcissism	p. 47
The Hint of Which	p. 49
The End of the '80s	p. 50
Goodbye on the Wind	p. 52
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