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The best of it : new and selected poems / Kay Ryan. |
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| Description |
xiv, 270 pages ; 22 cm |
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| Note |
"United States Poet Laureate 2008-2010"--Cover. |
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Includes index. |
| Contents |
New poems : - Odd blocks -- Edges of time -- Bait goat -- Train-track figure -- We're building the ship as we sail it -- Virga -- Dogleg -- Cloud -- Ledge -- Stations -- Repetition -- Pharoahs -- Pentimenti -- Bitter pill -- Polish and balm -- Retroactive -- Galapago -- Finish -- Shift -- Easter Island -- Cut out for it -- Spiderweb -- Still life with lemons, oranges and a rose -- After Zeno. |
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Flamingo watching 1994 : - Flamingo watching -- This life -- Extraordinary lengths -- Every painting by Chagall -- Tables freed -- Leaving spaces -- Periphery -- Mock ruin -- Is it modest? -- Things of the world -- Emptiness -- Slant -- Apology -- Vacation -- Certain kind of Eden -- No rest for the idle -- Narrow path -- When fishing fails -- Say it straight -- Glass slippers -- How successful can she afford to be? -- Repetition -- Natures profondement bonnes sont toujours indecises -- So different -- Half a loef -- Soft -- Spring -- I marveled at how generally I was aided -- Impersonal -- Certain meanness of culture -- Test we set ourself -- Force --\tMiners' canaries -- Hinge of spring -- Deer -- Sheep in wolves' clothing -- Snake charm -- Palm at the end of the mind -- Poetry is a kind of money -- Persiflage -- Masterworks of Ming -- Breast birds -- Paired things -- Osprey -- Turtle. |
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Elephant Rocks 1996 : - Living with stripes -- Doubt -- Mirage oases -- Cirque -- Chemistry -- That vase of lilacs -- Connections -- Dew -- Lacquer artist -- All shall be restored -- Full measure -- Stars of Bethlehems -- Crib -- Bestiary -- How birds sing -- How a thought thinks -- Intention -- If the moon happened once -- New clothes -- Simply by growing larger -- To the young Anglerfish -- Crustacean Island -- Imaginary Eskimos -- Outsider art -- Caught -- Petits confitures -- Why isn't it all more marked -- Witness -- Learning -- Apogee -- Against gravity -- Lacunae -- Intransigence -- Age -- Counsel -- Insult -- Silence -- A cat/a future -- Hope -- Losses -- Cabinet of Curiosities -- Her Politeness -- Bad patch -- Swept up whole -- Any morning -- Relief -- Part Midas -- Woman who wrote too much -- Sonnet to spring -- Plain ordinary steel needle can float on pure water -- Distance -- Vessel and the cup -- Wooden -- Second -- Heat -- Poetry in translation -- If she had only one minute -- Elephant Rocks. |
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Say Uncle 2000 : - Say Uncle -- Corners -- Star block -- Mockingbird -- Hundred bolts of satin -- Excluded animals -- Blandeur -- Composition -- Patience -- Coming and going -- Nothing ventured -- That will to divest -- Winter fear -- Grazing horses -- Waste -- Forgetting -- Fourth wise man -- Beasts -- Gaps -- Fabric of life -- Help -- Pass -- Pieces that fall to Earth -- Don't look back -- It's always darkest just before the dawn -- Blunt -- Diamonds -- Herring -- Silence Islands -- Cheshire -- Yeses -- Great thoughts -- Test -- Crown -- Bad day -- Among English verbs -- Lime light -- Why we must struggle -- Drops in the bucket -- Job -- Dutch -- Chemise -- Deferred silence -- Attention -- Failure -- Matrigupta -- Weakness and doubt -- Failure 2 -- Two more, and up goes the monkey -- Water under the bridge -- Your face will stick -- And all becomes as before. |
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Niagara River 2005 : - Niagara River -- Home to roost -- Csrrying a ladder -- Sharks' teeth -- Weak forces -- Elephant in the room -- Ball rolls on a point -- Best of it -- Chinese foot chart -- Shipwreck -- Other shoe -- Atlas -- He lit a fire with icicles -- Rats' tails -- Added significance -- Chop -- Felix Crow -- Desert reservoirs -- Hailstorm -- Expectations -- Green Hills -- Rubbing lamps -- Tenderness and rot -- Tar babies -- Tired blood -- Theft -- Ideal audience -- Caps -- Thin -- Stardust -- Blue China doorknob -- Salvage -- Light of interiors -- Things shouldn't be so hard -- Past -- Reverse drama -- Fake spots -- Legerdemain -- Hide and seek -- Post-construction -- Least action -- Chart -- No names -- Material -- Well or the cup -- Late justice -- Backward miracle -- Green behind the ears -- Thieves -- Lighthouse keeping -- Tune. |
| Subject |
American poetry -- 20th century.
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American poetry.
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| Genre |
Poetry.
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| Other title |
New and selected poems. |
| ISBN |
9780802119148
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080211914X
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