A Series of Small Boxes

by Devaney, Thomas

• ISBN13: 9781929495115
• ISBN10: 1929495110
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-09-01
• Publisher: Fish Drum Inc

Summary

Poetry. In Thomas Devaney's remarkable second collection of poems, A SERIES OF SMALL BOXES, he tells us, "Pack your songs, fringe history of television,/ kindergarten constructions, extra socks--/ somehow it all will fit; and what doesn't/ you can bring along too if you'd like." Devaney has the gentle grace of Rilke combined with the wisdom of Solomon. For this he is irresistible. "[His poems] are vulnerable, pleasurable, tolerant, wary and contemporary"--Fanny Howe. "The poems are resonant patches of serious life, almost as buoyant as dreams. Their light graces remain etched in the mind"--John Ashbery.

Table of Contents

Rome	p. 1
The Car, a Window, and World War II	p. 2
Deliberate	p. 4
In Iceland there's no reason	p. 5
William James and the Giant Peach	p. 6
Quick Bear Poem	p. 7
Sonnet	p. 8
A Northern Straight	p. 9
A Series of Small Boxes	p. 10
The 1,000-Year Storm	p. 13
Arriving	p. 14
Obi Wan Kenobi	p. 15
Otherwise	p. 16
Trying to live as if it were morning	p. 17
It's no fun living in the no-fun zone	p. 19
Miniature miniature golf	p. 20
Along the fault of relation	p. 21
At and Near the Georgia Guidestones	p. 22
A Free-for-All Ends at A.C. Airport	p. 23
ORIGAMI HEADPHONES	p. 25
Near and Far	p. 39
One Hour, October	p. 41
B. Downing's Shirt Weapon	p. 42
The Rat and the Flower Pot	p. 43
Only the amoebas are happy	p. 44
Mr. Glinting as seen off the Atlantic seaboard	p. 46
Heaped Up from Hell	p. 47
No Such Poem	p. 48
A Return to Glory	p. 49
Accurate Clouds	p. 50
They're fighting in Atlantic City, in Atlantic City	p. 51
Animated Folkies	p. 52
At the end of the famous catalogue of the ships	p. 54
POEM	p. 55
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