Iowa: Poetry by Lucas Hunt

by Lucas Hunt

Overview

The first of five linen-cased, hardcover books in an autobiographical collection of cinematic poetry, Iowa commences the Homeric journey of poet Lucas Hunt from a childhood engulfed by the humidity and sun on a pig farm, to the Society shores of Southampton, the jagged glass and steel canyons of New York City, and the sublimity of Rome and Paris.

In Iowa, Hunt brings his literary camera closer to the fire within the belly of a boy poised to champion the writer's dream of life in Manhattan. Economic in style, lyrical and determined in voice, Iowa, from its first foreshadowing verse, will prove Ayn Rand right: “The world you desire can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it's yours.”

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780578447742
Publisher:	Thane & Prose
Publication date:	12/09/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	184
File size:	636 KB

Table of Contents

Wild Animals 1 The Beginning 3 Cornfield 5 70th Avenue 7 Dixon Revisited 9 Downtown Morning 11 As the Crow 13 Give Your Heart 17 Hawks 19 Under the Walnut Tree 21 Walking 23 From the Earth 25 Buena Vista Road 29 Dollar an Hour 31 The Struggle 33 Hired Hand 35 A Tire Burning 37 Wapsipinicon River 39 Whatever Happens is True 41 The Legion 43 Leaving the Farm 45 The Trucker 47 Poetry 49 Mud Creek 51 Reaction 53 To a Sparrow 55 To You 59 Davenport 61 Bix Beiderbecke 63 Wheatland Car Wash 65 Bedroom Window 67 On Dandelions 69 Strings 73 Grant Wood 75 Walcott Street 77 Soon 79 Cicadas 81 Distracted by Messages 85 Calling 87 Maquoketa Caves 89 Thunderstorm 91 Loverless Summer 93 The Apartment 95 For Anna 97 A Tornado 99 The End 103 Leaf, Moth, Fish 105 The Hunter 107 Day Lily 111 My Father 113 Iowa City 115 The Poisoned Well 117 Odyssey 119 Harvest 121 Elegy 123 The Diving Rock 125 Most Walks 127 My Grandfather 129 The Farmer 131 Autumn 135 The Funeral 137 Flowers from the Dead 139 Scatter the Ashes 141 Redfield 143 October on a Bench 145 Of Windy Tides 147 Ducks 149 Winter 151 Drifting 155 Only Snow 157 Where the Tree Falls 159 Timber 163 Tractor Repair 165 Invocation 167 House Where the Horses Were 169

Editorial Reviews

In Iowa, Hunt brings his literary camera closer to the fire within the belly of a boy poised to champion the writer's dream of life in Manhattan. Economic in style, lyrical and determined in voice, Iowa, from its first foreshadowing verse, will prove Ayn Rand right: "The world you desire can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it's yours."-N. Thane Boulton

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