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Poetry at the edge : five contemporary California poets /

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Stroud, Joseph, 1943- (Author), Ryan, Kay (Author), Young, Gary, 1951- (Author), Ronk, Martha Clare (Author), Hannon, Michael, 1939- (Author)
Corporate Author: Classic Letterpress (Firm) (Printer)
Other Authors: Campbell, Carolee (Editor, Illustrator), Clayton, Norman (Printer)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: [San Francisco] : The Book Club of California, 2014.
Series:Publication (Book Club of California) ; no. 233.
Subjects:
American poetry.
California.
American poetry > California > 21st century.
2000 - 2099
Typefaces (Type evidence) > Walbaum.
Table of Contents:
  • Joseph Stroud
  • Kay Ryan
  • Gary Young
  • Martha Ronk
  • Michael Hannon.
  • Joseph Stroud: Lodestone
  • The room above the white rose
  • Walking
  • Death in the Tehachapis
  • City
  • First law of thermodynamics
  • A winter's tale.
  • Kat Ryan: Tune
  • Things shouldn't be so hard
  • The best of it
  • The edges of time
  • Bitter pill
  • Doubt
  • Spiderweb.
  • Gary Young: It's a joy to be subtracted
  • When I was a young man
  • The roads were closed
  • We'd been talking about the limits
  • When I step from the deck
  • The skunks and deer
  • The earth submits.
  • Martha Ronk: "I cannot remember anything about this journey other than this"
  • "This sense of numbness soon came over me"
  • "The sounds in and of themselves were less like the sounds of anyone"
  • "I sat at the window and watched it cover everything by nightfall"
  • "I was astonished at the mysterious slow motion quality of the sound"
  • "It was a photograph of a house quite like any other I had inhabited"
  • "It seemed to all of us as remarkably like suspension in time."
  • Michael Hannon: At the crossroad
  • Thanksgiving
  • Beyond freedom
  • Pure luck
  • Solstice
  • Divided self
  • Aftermath.