Weighing Light Poems

by Brock, Geoffrey

• ISBN13: 9781566636674
• ISBN10: 1566636671
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-09-01
• Publisher: Ivan R. Dee

Summary

This year's winner of the New Criterion Poetry Prize. Geoffrey Brock has held a Wallace Stegner Fellowship and NEA Fellowship in poetry.

Table of Contents

Abstraction	p. 3
And day brought back my night	p. 4
The beautiful animal	p. 5
Cold pastoral	p. 6
Drive	p. 7
Diretto	p. 8
Eating carrots with Charlie Bernheimer	p. 10
Epithalamium : midsummer convergence	p. 12
Exercitia Spiritualia	p. 14
The familiar itch	p. 15
The family manse	p. 16
Father countries	p. 18
For my daughter	p. 19
Forever Street	p. 20
Genesis	p. 22
Her voice when she is feeling weak	p. 23
Interrogating eros	p. 24
The jolly toper	p. 26
The last dinner party	p. 27
The last suburbia	p. 28
The male mantis	p. 29
The man outside	p. 30
Mezzo Cammin	p. 31
Modern romance	p. 32
Mon Chat, Mon Semblable	p. 33
More light verse	p. 34
Move	p. 35
Mundane comedies	p. 36
My austere and lonely office (soliloquies)	p. 40
No despicable gift	p. 43
Northeaster	p. 44
O mother of muses, O father	p. 45
Odysseus old	p. 46
The Orpheus variations	p. 48
Ovid old	p. 52
The photomancer	p. 54
Possum hour	p. 56
Postscript	p. 57
The rat snake gospel	p. 58
The royal palms of South Florida	p. 60
Sinkholes	p. 61
Snake bird at rest	p. 62
Snake man	p. 63
Speak now (soliloquies)	p. 64
The starvers	p. 67
Stick	p. 68
Telephone	p. 70
Tennessee in Florida (old fussy)	p. 71
Transit Gloria Mundi	p. 72
The upper room	p. 74
Vision (sweet recess)	p. 75
Weighing light	p. 76
You are here	p. 78
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