What Are The Rich Doing Tonight?

by Dennis Rush

Overview

"I read through these poems with pleasure. They're witty poems, often moving and deeply real, with a clear music of understanding that seems to me quite original. There is never a moment of obscurity. The language seals the deal again and again, as in "Picking Berries," where in the final stanza I smiled in agreement, thinking of this collection as a whole, with the poems as blackberries: I wish I had another bowl. Dennis Rush offers a feast here. Enjoy!"—Jay Parini

Poetry.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781953252494
Publisher:	Dos Madres Press
Publication date:	02/15/2022
Pages:	94
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Dennis Rush grew up on a remote tobacco farm in Kentucky, and if a couple of things had gone better, he probably would have stayed and never written a poem. He is a graduate of the University of Nebraska at Omaha and Goddard College with an MFA in Creative Writing. He lives in Staatsburg, New York with his supportive wife, a few children and a menagerie of rescued animals.

Table of Contents

I Had the Brain 1

The Branches 2

Elephant Skin 3

Snake Handling 4

Factory Work 6

Everything at Once 10

Picking Blackberries 12

A Goat Died 14

Picking Blueberries 16

Skinny 17

Picking Raspberries 19

Stray 20

Collecting Rocks 22

Picking Strawberries 23

Siphoning 24

Everything about Doug 25

Boy Fingers 26

Nocturne 27

Winter Wasp 28

The Parade 30

Voting 31

At the Game 32

Accepting Loss 33

Small Town Prostitute 35

Day In and Day Out 36

Jelly Bean 38

Confessional 40

Kitchen Table Blues 41

Let's Move Big 42

The Tobacco Cutters Scar 43

Proxy 44

Ephemeral 45

Physics 48

Field Dressed 49

Butterfly 51

Incense 52

Two Mating Beetles 54

Nurture 55

Jim Died 56

Sentencing 58

My Heart with Pleasure Fills 59

Like Flies on the Skeleton of a Dead Horse 60

Murmuration 61

Guilt 62

The Cucumber Letter 63

The Cow Trough 64

Superstition 66

Somewhere Upwind 67

Mid-September 68

How My Friend, Robert Melideo, Died in His Sleep 69

Drifting 70

About the Author 73