Shinemaster

by McFee, Michael

• ISBN13: 9780887484469
• ISBN10: 0887484468
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-11-11
• Publisher: Carnegie Mellon Univ Pr

Summary

Shinemaster is a book about discovering plenitude in apparent scarcity. It presents this human paradox in lively and of ten playful fashion, with poems about sweet potatoes. popular music, spitwads, sex education, family and marriage, cafeterias, Sunday School. and a shoeshine kit. McFee's poems are lucid and vivid, ranging in length from quick lyrics to more extended poems about kissing, sneezing whistling, and making art.

Author Biography

Michael McFee is a professor of English at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

Table of Contents

Plenty	p. 9
Riffs	p. 10
Solo	p. 12
Spitwads	p. 14
Belching	p. 15
The Culvert	p. 17
Visible Boy	p. 18
Vineswinging	p. 19
Mrs. Rembrandt	p. 21
The Nudists	p. 23
Skin	p. 24
Kissing	p. 25
Valentine's Afternoon	p. 27
Time Enough	p. 28
Rings of Fire	p. 29
Over	p. 30
The Wedding Band	p. 31
The Tape	p. 32
Sneezing	p. 33
Partners	p. 35
The Tree Man	p. 36
"Service Is Our Business"	p. 38
Cafeterias	p. 40
The Tub	p. 42
Meteor Shower	p. 43
Spitting	p. 44
Rosin Bag	p. 46
Spigot with Imaginary Animals	p. 47
The Lessons	p. 48
"Helen, Come Forth!"	p. 50
Roof Ball	p. 52
Curtains	p. 53
Whistling	p. 54
Icewater in a Tumbler	p. 56
Old Pillow	p. 57
Shinemaster	p. 58
Surely	p. 60
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