Research Catalog

Title

Spinach days : poems / by Robert Phillips.

Author

Phillips, Robert, 1938-2022.

Publication

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.

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Details

Description

xiv, 93 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"In Spinach Days there are long narratives and short lyrics, villanelles and somonkas, haiku and found poems, free verse and eclogues, on subjects ranging from St. Francis to the Holocaust, from Jung's concept of the anima to a particular bit of American folklore on the gangster John Dillinger. Throughout, the poet's memory is the cohesive force, mixing events of childhood with adulthood, rural life with big-city life, love with loss, and humorous events with tragic ones."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Johns Hopkins, poetry and fiction

Uniform Title

Johns Hopkins, poetry and fiction.

Contents

• I Remember, I Remember -- For the Late Great Pennsylvania Station -- My Valhalla -- Free Improvisation -- Everywhere the Same -- Early Lesson -- Gingerbread House -- Say Hello to the Little Woman -- The Panic Bird -- In Praise of My Prostate -- Cherry Suite -- A Pretty Likeness of the Life -- Trashed -- Family Portrait -- Letter to My Mother -- Grandfather's Cars -- Hounds -- Spinach Days -- Things -- 603 Cross River Road -- Sunday Driver -- No Thanksgiving -- The Changed Man -- Oysters -- What's the Point? -- Fifth Season -- Epistles -- The Pillsbury Doughboy Is Alive and Well in Ohio -- John Dillinger's Dick -- Sonata -- Personals -- Never Date Yourself -- Sex -- The Man Who Fell in Love with His Cat -- Found Poems -- The Uses of Not -- Late Reading -- Homage to a Nonagenarian -- Fort Juniper Annual Thanksgiving Day Family Gathering -- Gifts -- Instrument to Choice -- Brother Francis and Brother Wolf -- Song for an Infant Son -- Houston Haiku -- Gout --
• Two for Amy Jones -- Compartments.

ISBN

0801864518 (acid-free paper)

LCCN

99057067

OCLC

• ocm42772284
• SCSB-3885059

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries