Darkened Rooms of Summer
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Darkened Rooms of Summer

New and Selected Poems

  1. 192 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Darkened Rooms of Summer

New and Selected Poems

About this book

For nearly half a centuryJared Carter has been quietly mapping the American heartland. Line by line, his poetry has shown us the landscape, sounded the voices, conjured the music, and tested the silence of the ever-changing and yet ever-constant Midwest that figures so prominently in the American story. And yet what we find in Carter's poetry isendlessly new.Here, in poems selected from his first five books, is the summer-long buzz of the cicada and the crack of the cue ball, the young rebel on his big Harley, and the YMCA secretary who backstrokes her way across the indoor pool. Here, too, are thirty new poems in fixed form that illustrate Carter's continued quest for a poetry of "universal interest." Taken together, these selections are, truly, poetry in the American grain.

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Information

Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Year
2014
Print ISBN
9780803248571
eBook ISBN
9780803253858
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
American Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Epigraph
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction by Ted Kooser
  9. From "Work, for the Night Is Coming" (1981)
  10. Geodes
  11. Early Warning
  12. For Jack Chatham
  13. The Madhouse
  14. Walking the Ties
  15. Glacier
  16. Mississinewa County Road
  17. The Oddfellows’ Waiting Room at Glencove Cemetery
  18. The Undertaker
  19. Monument City
  20. Work, for the Night Is Coming
  21. At the Sign-Painter’s
  22. Turning the Brick
  23. Landing the Bees
  24. The Measuring
  25. Ginseng
  26. Shaking the Peonies
  27. Birdstone
  28. From "After the Rain" (1993)
  29. After the Rain
  30. Phoenix
  31. The Gleaning
  32. Scryer
  33. The Shriving
  34. Mississinewa Reservoir at Winter Pool
  35. The Purpose of Poetry
  36. Poem Written on a Line from the Walam Olum
  37. Foundling
  38. Barn Siding
  39. Cicadas
  40. Interview
  41. Drawing the Antique
  42. For an Old Flame
  43. Portrait Studio
  44. Cecropia Moth
  45. Seed Storm
  46. Galleynipper
  47. Changeling
  48. Mourning Doves
  49. The Believers
  50. For Starr Atkinson, Who Designed Books
  51. From "Les Barricades Mystérieuses" (1999)
  52. Improvisation
  53. Summons
  54. Candle
  55. Berceuse
  56. Ditchweed
  57. Cemetery
  58. Interlude
  59. Ford
  60. Millefiori
  61. Clavichord
  62. Tankroom
  63. Phosphorescence
  64. Palimpsest
  65. Labyrinth
  66. Linen
  67. Reprise
  68. Hawkmoth
  69. Comet
  70. From "Cross This Bridge at a Walk" (2006)
  71. Covered Bridge
  72. Visit
  73. Recollections of a Contingent of Coxey’s Army Passing through Straughn, Indiana, in April of 1894
  74. Spirea
  75. Picking Stone
  76. From "A Dance in the Street" (2012)
  77. Prophet Township
  78. Summit
  79. Roadside Crosses
  80. Fire Burning in a 55-Gallon Drum
  81. In the Warehouse District
  82. In the Military Park
  83. The Pool at Noon
  84. Plastic Sack
  85. Wind Egg
  86. Hidden Door
  87. Cicadas in the Rain
  88. Sphinx
  89. War
  90. At the Art Institute
  91. Mourning Dove Ascending
  92. Up in Michigan
  93. Blank Paper
  94. Under the Snowball Bush
  95. Snow
  96. What Is Dream?
  97. New Poems
  98. Clouds
  99. Schoolhouse
  100. Dryad
  101. Awakening
  102. Homestead
  103. Gone
  104. Web
  105. Etruria
  106. Boleyn
  107. Vow
  108. Cross-harp
  109. Torc
  110. Ariadne
  111. Poetry
  112. Perseus
  113. Twilight
  114. Question
  115. Polyxena
  116. Graveyard
  117. Achilles
  118. Mourning
  119. Philoctetes
  120. Adultery
  121. Treadwheel
  122. Priestess
  123. Moth
  124. Journeyman
  125. Visitor
  126. Prescription
  127. Evergreen
  128. About the Author
  129. Series List
  130. Other Works by Jared Carter