Six Mile Mountain

by Richard Tillinghast

Overview

Six Mile Mountain is the seventh of Richard Tillinghast's twelve collections of poetry. The poems in this book, sometimes political in emphasis, sometimes sensual, sometimes elegiac, are rooted in the landscape of Ireland and America and explore love and betrayal, family, duty and grief, and the nature of personal identity. Tillinghast is adept with form, moving back and forth between free verse and metrical verse.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781586541125
Publisher:	Red Hen Press
Publication date:	07/27/2021
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	72
Product dimensions:	9.00(w) x 6.00(h) x 0.18(d)

About the Author

Richard Tillinghast, who grew up in Memphis, is a graduate of Sewanee and Harvard, where he studied with Robert Lowell and later wrote a critical memoir, Robert Lowell’s Life and Work: Damaged Grandeur. His Selected Poems came out in Ireland in 2010, and in 2010 he was awarded a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in poetry in addition to a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in translation for Dirty August, his versions of poems by the Turkish poet Edip Cansever, written in collaboration with his daughter, the poet Julia Clare Tillinghast. His 2012 travel book, An Armchair Traveller’s History of Istanbul, published in London, was nominated for the Royal Society of Literature’s Ondaatje Prize. He has taught at Harvard, Berkeley, Sewanee, and the University of Michigan, and is one of the founders of the Bear River Writers’ Conference. The author of five works of creative nonfiction, his most recent publication is Journeys into the Mind of the World: A Book of Places, (2017). He has lived in Ireland as well as America, and now divides his time between Hawaii and a summer house in Sewanee, Tennessee.

Table of Contents

	His Days	1
	A Visit	2
	Ever	4
	Father in October	5
	Hooded Crow and Speedwell	7
	Rain	8
	The World Is	10
	The Alley Behind Ocean Drive	12
	Starfuckers	14
	Wireless	15
	McLeod House	16
	My Father's Glen Plaid Jacket	18
	Work Station	19
	A Morning	20
	Departure	21
	A Box of Rain	23
	On a Black-Market Icon of the Archangel Michael	24
	Currency	26
	Sight	27
	Habitat	28
	Legends of Lady Fitzpigge-Hightits	30
	Lexicons	32
	The Emigrant	33
	Coming To	34
	Westbound	35
	Opera on Jukebox	36
	Tea	37
	Osmanli	39
	Am I Like a Tree	40
	Petition	42
	Six Mile Mountain	43
	Solstice	44
	Bijou and Majestic	45
	The Red Cottage	46
	Exilium	48
	The Bacon	50
	The Button	51
	Incident	52
	Something by Vivaldi	53
	Wake Me in South Galway	55
	We Kept Missing Each Other	57
	Notes	59

What People are Saying About This

Eavan Boland

These powerful, deceptive poems…engage and enchant us with the eloquences and cadences of objects and distances.

Editorial Reviews

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