Extravagant rescues : poems /
"How far from our imperfect human selves have we traveled? How shall we recover what is left, live within our man-made technologies built to be more powerful than us, and still keep a sense of humor? In the depths of an illness that would ultimately claim his life, beloved poet and professor, B...
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[Evanston, Ill.] :
TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press,
2019.
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / by Jeffrey Galbraith
- Contra belly
- Upon news of the important fossil
- BC prospect
- Times Square the first time
- My favorite Bollywood film
- About your delivery-room video on YouTube
- Polaroid elegy
- Which one day would you choose to live over again?
- First apartment near St. Mary's
- Our Nostos
- Found & lost
- Improbable rescue of the heart
- Recovery, Gulf Coast
- Instruction and delight
- Upon watching once again The Empire Strikes Back
- Adulescentia
- Airport uh-oh poem
- No, you misheard
- Silent couple at Rievaulx Abbey
- George Clooney
- We strivers all
- July fourth, with vampires
- O Capolavoro
- Psychomachia
- Citations on our nature
- Elysium
- Sonnet
- Summer teaching at an Oxford college
- To David Hooker
- Discussing social media with her
- Beginning of an elegy, with iPad
- At a cabin near Barronvale Bridge
- Artes liberales
- Memento mori, with summer fair
- Request overheard on a car radio
- Meditation on "In memoriam"
- The state we're in
- The tree felled, the tree raised
- Happiness, Carolina highway
- Quiet ars poetica
- Alternative titles for the book you are holding in your hands
- Lexical reverie
- Spatulamantic
- On Leonardo's "Figures to represent labor"
- Avery da Vinci, Our Lady of the western suburbs
- Missive
- On Stanley Spencer's Travoys arriving with wounded at a dressing-station
- From a plane window west of San Diego
- Good night
- The opposite of 'lov'
- For a young software designer, who never sleeps
- Looking back on the era of YouTube
- On the way to where we're going
- On the numbness that will be our future
- Passing thought on apocalypse
- Horatian valediction.