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Pastoral Habits Poems
Poems. Selections
- Author / Creator
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Details
- Creator
- George Drew
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Huntsville, Texas : Texas Review Press, [2016]
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021
- ©[2016]
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (xi, 187 pages)
- ISBNs
- 1680030795, 9781680030792, 1680030809, 9781680030808
- OCLC
- on1164583990
- New poems. Pastoral habits -- The importance of storytelling in the Ddeep South -- Possum -- the simply crazy -- Why do we call it Agent Orange? -- The world after Mama -- How I would keep the maybe one-eighth Choctaw part of me alive -- Women like her -- Antigone on Tinker Street -- Meeting Will Nixon -- Meeting Darrell Bourque -- Doing a blurb for Jared -- High math at Blue Mountain Lake -- Ode to moss -- Just one lousy apple -- The woman in the black dress -- The young poet with a New Age name -- Silver -- Talking to God on the old storm king -- God in the hands of an angry sinner -- Anne Bradstreet in Barnes & Noble -- Jack's last book -- Reading a Pulitzer Prize finalist on the Garden State -- On my way to Hudson -- Incident on Wilbur Flats Road
- The view from Jackass Hill (2011). The older I get the more I think of Keats -- From "Three for Jack". Hey, Jack -- Montpelier -- Elegy for Michael -- After seeing Bright star at the Spectrum Theater -- Blessed -- Dark thoughts under the basswood tree -- Flood-wood -- Fishing the tracks -- Making do in Petticoat Lane -- The view from Jackass Hill -- From "Elegy for joyce". Real cherry -- The dark up here -- RC's girl -- Making up with Milton -- Ripeness -- Digging Andy -- The way forward -- This truly crappy pastoral ode -- Reading Jared in the middle of the night
- The hand that rounded Peter's dome (2010). Condivi -- Torrigiano -- Lodovico -- The Pietà -- Julius II -- Erasmus and Dürer: a dialog -- The blackmailer -- The sacred and the profane -- The brothers -- The assistant -- The sisters
- American cool (2009). Exactly (a pastoral rumination) -- Ghost calls -- Fort William Henry, Pemaquid -- Epistle to Peter Snyder -- The distances across which all the atoms dance -- Giving it up in paradise -- Laying it down in paradise -- To Stella, Laura, Julia, Beatrice, and the Dark Ladie -- Sleeping with Nancy -- Our daughter is becoming Elvis -- Like a silent movie based on a slow-moving chapter of a bad novel -- The woman the blues are about -- It's raining in Detroit -- Coleridge at the autumn picnic of the society of Druids -- I've never used the word shabby before -- Huff -- Gargoyles -- American cool -- Master class
- The horse's name was Physics (2006). The horse's name was Physics -- Wild beasts in the ruined cornfields -- Clara' s calling -- The icehouse -- The night that nature spoke -- The birds of passage -- The different meanings of the word I -- The day the sand began to hop -- FDR & me -- Ahimsa -- Beyond the fields of bright aster -- The journey of death
- So many bones: poems of Russia (1997). Among Russians -- The soldiers of God have come to Russia -- To Irina -- The tank -- The smoked fish -- Kopecks -- At Tolstoy's grave -- The Russian word for sun -- My first real kiss in Russia
- Toads in a poisoned tank (1986). The drowning of Christopher French -- From "Sea creatures". A small and white-grained beach ; High tea with Mrs. Rosie O'Shea -- From "A death on campus". Theodore Whyland ; Either you fall in the river of despair or you walk on the water like Christ -- Talking with Nepo -- Looking into James Wright's hammock at William Duffy's farm in Pine Island, Minnesota -- To a writer from Maine -- To a fisherman -- From "Southern roots". Mr. Clarence ; Miss Jennie ; Falling in love with Aunt Joyce ; Learning to box with Gus ; Mr. Jason ; Mr. Red -- From "Northern branches". The giving of Uncle Melvin ; A short unhappy history of Uncle Frank ; A very special case ; Well, Daddy