Times Beach , livre ebook

142

pages

English

Ebooks

2015

Écrit par
John Shoptaw

Publié par
University of Notre Dame Press

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142

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2015

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Publié par

University of Notre Dame Press

Date de parution

15 février 2015

EAN13

9780268092870

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

1 Mo

Winner of the Notre Dame Review Book Prize, this ambitious collection of poems evokes the cultural and environmental history of the Mississippi watershed and meditates on how its rivers are ceaselessly shaping, and shaped by, the lives around them. John Shoptaw guides us from the Mississippi’s headwaters in Lake Itasca to its delta in the Gulf of Mexico, weaving together episodes in the life of the river system—the New Madrid earthquakes, the 1927 flood, the EPA’s eradication of the dioxin-laced town of Times Beach—with his own memories of growing up in the Missouri Bootheel: picking cotton, being baptized in a drainage ditch, and working in a lumber mill. Formally renovative, the poems in Times Beach ring the changes on the big muddy place and hymn its everlasting possibilities.

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Publié par

University of Notre Dame Press

Date de parution

15 février 2015

EAN13

9780268092870

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

1 Mo

TIMES BEACH

TheNotre Dame ReviewBook Prize

2013 2015

Love beneath the Napalm, James D. Redwood Times BeachShoptaw, John

BEACH

John Shoptaw

university of notre dame press notre dame, indiana

Manufactured in the United States of America

“Blues Haiku” was originally published inThe New Yorker.

“Wahite” was originally published inCommon Knowledgeby Duke University Press.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Shoptaw, John, date. [Poems. Selections] Times Beach / John Shoptaw. pages ; cm. — (Notre Dame Review Book Prize) ISBN 978-0-268-01785-9 (softcover : acid-free paper) ISBN 0-268-01785-9 (softcover : acid-free paper) ISBN 978-0-268-09287-0 (e-book) I. Title. PS3619.H66A6 2015 811'.6—dc23 2014044966

∞The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources

for Doug

A language is a dialect with an army and a navy.

—attributed to Max Weinreich

This great river is, truly, one of the Nation’s outstanding assets. Uncontrolled,

it would be just as great a liability.

—U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, official website

Contents

Acknowledgments

Blues Haiku 3 Little River Coils 7 Wahite 9 Two-step 9 Whereabouts 10 Girdled 11 On Jordan’s Stormy Banks Fin 14 Tall Cotton 16 Salome 18 Red Letter Edition 21 Tongues 23 Fog Bound 25 Castor Glands 27 Probably 28 Twice 30 Oh Well 32

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Banvard’s Panorama 39 Itasca 40 Shuffle 45 The Great Comet of 1811 45 Plans for New Madrid 46 The Open Door 47 The Boy and the Mill 48 Buster Brown 49 Such Was Lucy Jefferson Lewis’s Hold 50 The Odds against Us 51 Believing Is Seeing 52 The Louisville Circulating Library 53 Rocky Hill Spring 54 Ghost Squirrels 55 Audubon’s Spanish Barb 56 Why Only Swamp Rabbits? 57 Keeper 58 Every Creeping Thing 59 The First Draft 60 Not a Chance 61 Tecumseh, His Jump 62 The Comet’s Coda 63 Floodplain 64

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Crawfish Castle 71 Ghastly Dew 73 Red Cross Knight 77 Heebie Jeebies: A Dream Masque 84

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Corn Maze 117 Times Beach 120 Operation Watershed The Dead Zone 126

Notes 127

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