Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey: Poems, 1991-1995

by Carruth, Hayden

• ISBN13: 9781556591105
• ISBN10: 1556591101
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-04-01
• Publisher: Consortium Book Sales & Dist

Summary

Winner of the National Book Award. With passion and pathos and great good humor -- in poems that could only be written by a mature poet at the height of his powers -- Carruth speaks with intimate and urgent clarity of love late in life. In heart-rending poems he addresses his daughter's struggle against cancer, as well as the loves, friendships, and social concerns of a lifetime.

Author Biography

Hayden Carruth is the author of twenty-five books of poetry, a novel, four books of criticism, and two anthologies, and has held fellowships from the Bollingen, Guggenheim and Lannan foundations, as well as the NEA. His many awards include the National Book Award for Poetry, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Lenore Marshall/The Nation Award.

Table of Contents

Five-Thirty AM	3	(1)
Flying into St. Louis	4	(1)
Solemnization	5	(1)
Wife Poem	6	(1)
The Hyacinth Garden in Brooklyn	7	(2)
Another	9	(1)
The Soft Time of the Year	10	(1)
Birthday Cake	11	(2)
Quality of Wine	13	(1)
Resorts	14	(1)
California	15	(2)
A Summer with Tu Fu	17	(13)
Auburn Poem	30	(2)
August 1945	32	(1)
Snow Storm	33	(2)
Testament	35	(2)
Endnote	37	(1)
Folk Song: On the Road Again	38	(2)
Forty-Five	40	(1)
The Last Poem in the World	41	(1)
Homage to Edwin Muir	42	(1)
April Clean-Up	43	(1)
I, I, I	44	(1)
In Pharaoh's Tomb	45	(1)
Bennington Poem	46	(1)
Alteration	47	(1)
Ecstasy	48	(1)
February Morning	49	(2)
The Woodcut on the Cover of Robert Frost's Complete Poems	51	(1)
Particularity	52	(1)
Rubaiyat	53	(1)
Saturday at the Border	54	(1)
Surrealism	55	(2)
The Camps	57	(7)
Swept	64	(1)
The Best, the Most	65	(1)
The Brook	66	(1)
The Chain	67	(2)
Isabel's Garden, May 14	69	(2)
Lilac Time	71	(1)
The Curtain	72	(2)
Window Blind	74	(1)
Mort aux Belges!	75	(1)
Pittsburgh	76	(2)
Overlooking Pittsburgh	78	(1)
Faxes to William	79	(7)
Good Old Word Blues	86	(1)
Graves	87	(1)
Waterloo	87	(12)
What to Do	89	(1)
Notes on Poverty	90	(1)
Song: New That She is Here	91	(1)
The Beat	92	(1)
In the Long Hall	93	(1)
The Woods	94	(1)
This Morning	95	(1)
Thorntrees	96	(1)
In Georgetown	97	(1)
Prepare	98	(2)
Little Citizen, Little Survivor	100	(1)
Scrambled Eggs and Whiskey	101