Research Catalog

Title

Human nature : poems / Gary Soto.

Author

Soto, Gary

Publication

North Adams, Mass. : Tupelo Press, 2010.

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Holdings

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Additional Authors

Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library). Collections, repository. poe

Description

[4], 90 p.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

The Tupelo masters series

Subject

American poetry > 21st century

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The dime-store parakeet -- Symbols -- Some ideas about Jesus -- Troubadour & the troubador's dog -- Waiting at the gate -- Greed & the jar of pennies -- Rounding bases -- Fruits of the world -- On the weekend -- Stars -- At the stationery store -- Making the news -- The vacant lot -- Dancing in the street -- Phone call -- The gritty house -- Some history about raisins -- At the levee, you can cry all you want -- Anniversary poem -- When I was sixteen -- At twenty -- Romance at the river bend called Three Rocks -- Indecision -- Get to work -- Algebra -- Something about the moon, something about us -- Three scenes -- Excuse me -- A drive to the foothills -- The retiree tries a course at the community college-Omaha, 1951 -- Short lives -- Jumper cables -- In our own way -- Portrait of two merchants -- The striaght-A student -- Birds of a feather -- True story -- Natural disasters -- How do you feel today? -- Human nature -- The last treat -- Near the slaughterhouse -- The way it is -- Thinking like Knut Hamsun -- "Who's calling?" -- Being difficult on "Voice of America" -- The poet no longer thinks of greatness, just a slender space at Barnes & Noble -- What the Federal bailout means to me -- The dow plunges 300 points -- College poverty -- Consulting for the Arts -- Big ideas on a small farm -- My vegan years -- My ambition after I lost the contract -- The fountain pen.

ISBN

9781932195842 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2009052809

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library