The Art of Subtraction: New and Selected Poems

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57 new poems and 43 poems from Parini's previous collections. His best work of the past 3 decades.
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57 new poems and 43 poems from Parini's previous collections. His best work of the past 3 decades.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780807615461
  • Publisher: Braziller, George Inc
  • Publication date: 4/4/2005
  • Pages: 132
  • Product dimensions: 5.40 (w) x 8.40 (h) x 0.50 (d)

Table of Contents

After the terror 13
In time of war 14
The prophets 15
The lost soldiers 16
State of the union 17
Occupied country 18
Sleeping through the storm 19
Lion's den 20
Big top blues 21
God's problem 22
Listening to the BBC World Service, late at night 23
At the mannequin convention 24
The president alone 25
Democracy 26
In the village of the new century 27
Penelope 28
Fish-eye view 31
Peaches 32
Parking in the convertible at night 33
High school 34
Family reunion 35
Misjudgments 36
The imperial bedchamber 37
The big picture 38
Covenant in April 39
Crow's nest 40
Old teams 41
The broken neck 42
Leo 43
Rise 44
The living rooms of South Rebecca 45
The trees are gone 46
Waiting room 47
Before a journey 48
Ethel at the hearth 51
Borges in Scotland 52
After the big bang 53
Mind 54
A short address to the academy of silence 55
White cane 57
Power stations 58
The lost manuscripts 59
Near old Meldrum, after a funeral 60
Belief 61
After hours 62
By the light of morning snow 63
Large projects 64
A life sentence 65
Origin of a species 66
Hiding in plain sight 67
The crucifixion 68
The heaven train 69
The pope on the subway 70
Judas in his cups 71
Appleseed 73
Late thoughts 75
The art of subtraction 76
Outcrops 77
Rock and water 78
Beginning the world 81
Walking the trestle 82
Playing in the mines 83
The missionary visits our church in Scranton 84
The miner's wake 85
Coal train 86
Snake hill 87
The Lackawanna at dusk 88
Anthracite country 89
Learning to swim 90
The sea lily 91
Amores (after Ovid) 92
Swimming in late September 94
To his dear friend, bones 95
This reaping 96
Skater in blue 97
Summer people 98
Black week 99
Near Aberdeen 100
The visitors 103
Differentiation 104
Crops 105
History 106
In the sphere of common duty 107
Reading through the night 108
The function of winter 109
Suburban swamp 110
Passing through Vermont on three martinis 111
This Kampuchea 112
Grandmother in heaven 114
At the ruined monastery in Amalfi 115
Stars falling 117
Swimming after thoughts 118
Rain before nightfall 120
The lake house in autumn 121
A killing frost 122
The lost scent 123
To my father in late September 124
1954 125
The crow-mother tells all 126
A conversation in Oxford 127
Near Pitlochry 129
I was there 130
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