Research Catalog

Title

Blues for Bill : a tribute to William Matthews / edited by Kurt Brown [and others] ; foreword by Russell Banks.

Publication

Akron, Ohio : University of Akron Press, 2005.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

Brown, Kurt.

Description

xviii, 134 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"Blues for Bill celebrates the work of poet William Matthews through his own language, that of poetry. The poems included are written by people who knew Bill in a variety of ways, under myriad circumstances: as friend, both old and new; as mentor and teacher; as colleague; as father."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Akron series in poetry

Uniform Title

Akron series in poetry.

Subject

• Matthews, William, 1942-1997 > Poetry
• American poetry > 21st century
• Poets > Poetry

Note

• Includes index.

Contents

Foreword / Russell Banks -- William Matthews -- Things my father passed down to me and my brother / Sebastian Matthews -- Birthday poem / Cynthia Atkins -- Bill Matthews coming along / Coleman Barks -- Notes for the elegy / Judith Baumel -- After / Jeanne Marie Beaumont -- Bill Matthews / Marvin Bell -- Remembering Bill Matthews / Earl S. Braggs -- Blues, for Bill / Andrea Carter Brown -- Unfair / Harriet Brown -- No profit / Robert Burr -- Pissing off Robert Frost's porch / Mark Cox -- Before you / Stephen Cramer -- Matthews in smoke / Sascha Feinstein -- Inspiration / Allen C. Fischer -- Untitled : for Bill Matthews / Debra Fried -- The last time / Rachel Hadas -- The eternal light of talk / Daniel Halpern -- Sleek for the long flight / James Harms -- Magic lantern / Pamela Harrison -- The poet speaks of Italy / Walter R. Holland -- Bill at Bellagio : a Rockefeller grant / Ann Hurwitz -- Reincarnation of a lovebird / Richard Jackson -- Last class / Jacqueline Johnson -- The secret of William Matthews / Rodney Jones -- Nature poetry / Meg Kearney -- My blue heaven / David Keller -- Elegy for William Matthews / Gerry LaFemina -- Last call / Peter Makuck -- Writers' conference / Gary Margolis -- Over a long distance / Cleopatra Mathis -- Buying wine / Sebastian Matthews -- Request / Karen McCosker -- Bill / Christopher Merrill -- Some words for Bill Matthews / Judson Mitcham -- In memory of William Matthews / Robert Morgan -- Matthews ah um / Sharon Olds -- Fixity / Rick Pernod -- When he fell backwards into his coffin / Stanley Plumly -- Following William Matthews' recipe for scallion risotto / Donna Reis -- Matthews in Maine, 1980 / Kenneth Rosen -- We never shot baskets together / Vern Rutsala -- Open to everything / John Schenck -- Coming down in Ohio / Dave Smith -- For William Matthews / Henry Taylor -- Ode to Bill's vocabulary, 1997 / Melinda Thomsen -- Glimpse of a traveller / Richard Tillinghast -- Bill Matthews, 1983 / Sidney Wade -- Elegy for Matthews / Bruce Weigl -- On the "island of old women" / Estha Weiner -- Scrabble with Matthews / David Wojahn -- In Cortona, thinking of Bill / Susan Wood -- Melancholy baby / Baron Wormser -- An interview with William Matthews / David Wojahn and James Harms.

ISBN

• 1931968233 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 1931968241 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2004026941

OCLC

• ocm57001683
• SCSB-5186630

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries