Song That Fathoms Home

by McNiece, Ray

• ISBN13: 9780933087859
• ISBN10: 0933087853
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-11-01
• Publisher: Bottom Dog Pr

Summary

Ray McNiece is an Ohio poet who goes out to the world in his performances and publications. As writer, actor, singer and teacher he has won new audiences for the word. He has toured throughout the United States and Europe, most recently in Italy with Lawrence Ferlinghetti and in Russia with poet laurete Yevgeny Yevtushenko where he appeared on "Good Morning, Russia" and at the Moscow Polytech, the Russian Poets' Hall of Fame, where he was dubbed, "the American Mayakovsky." He has collaborated with his band Tongue-in-Groove to create two poetry musicals, Mouth Music, and The Rustbowl Hootenanny. He is the voice of Woody Guthrie on NPR's Hard Travellin.' In a review of his solo theatre work, "Us - Talking Across America," the Star Phoenix said, "His thoughtful writing combines with perfectly timed delivery to create a wordscape that owes as much to jazz as drama." Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Song Always Beginning
Song Always Beginning	p. 11
In Cold Light	p. 14
The Home of Lost Words	p. 15
The First Word Spoken	p. 17
Monody For a Small Town	p. 19
The Sun Pronounces	p. 20
Tearing Lines of Verse From Air	p. 21
Truth of Breath	p. 22
Whitman in Manhatta	p. 24
Elegy for Samuel Beckett	p. 26
Elegy for Andy Warhol	p. 27
Bird's Notes	p. 28
Velvet Elvis	p. 31
Out of the Same Dark that Blooms Always	p. 33
The Power of Music	p. 34
Swirling	p. 36
The Light of Day	p. 38
The Word	p. 40
The Cheap Hotel Suite
Cheap Hotel Suite	p. 45
Twirling a Paper Umbrella	p. 49
Valentine	p. 51
The Chianti Flute Solo	p. 52
155 Pounds of Dead Fish	p. 53
Did I Trade You for the Moon?	p. 54
Poem of Emptiness	p. 56
Only Now Alone	p. 57
As We Fall Again	p. 58
Our Bodies Joined	p. 59
Just Like That	p. 60
My Tongue Has Never Forgotten	p. 61
Four Sharings	p. 62
Twined in the Dawn	p. 64
Hometown Haunt	p. 65
Song Heard Only Now After Gone
The Moon's Spare Change	p. 69
Song Heard Only Now After Gone	p. 70
Hunter's Moon	p. 73
Heat Lightning	p. 74
The Night the Bed Became a Rack	p. 75
He Makes Them Come to Him	p. 76
Dandelions	p. 77
Morning Walk in Late July	p. 79
Pop Songs Through the Night	p. 80
The Ordinary	p. 83
Mr. and Mrs. Frankenstein	p. 85
Letter From Andersonville	p. 87
Song That Fathoms Home
A Burning Question	p. 91
Memorial	p. 94
Mutant Ninja Turtle Boy	p. 96
Cleveland Winter	p. 97
Winter Sunset	p. 98
City of Strong Thighs	p. 100
The Last Ring-neck Pheasant	p. 101
The Picture in the Shoebox	p. 102
Song That Fathoms Home	p. 104
Definition of Making a Living, Part II	p. 106
A Swampwater Cocktail	p. 109
The Bottom	p. 111
Harold's Resurrection	p. 113
The Devil at the Mall	p. 115
Last Will and Testament for the Millennium	p. 117
Beginning With Being	p. 120
Author's Biographical Sketch	p. 123
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