Research Catalog

Title

Hummingbird sleep : poems, 2009-2011 / Coleman Barks.

Author

Barks, Coleman.

Publication

Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press, c2013.

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Description

118 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

The poems inHummingbird Sleep move associatively between Coleman Barks's personal experience and his extensive reading, weaving together a wild and eclectic range of material. A discussion of Plotinus, Barks's appearance on PBS NewsHour, a note Keats once left on Wordsworth's mantelpiece, a splinter in the heel, and a quote from the Upanishads-all make their way into Barks's most recent poems, which achieve intimacy and expansiveness at the same time.

Uniform Title

Project Muse UPCC books

Subject

American poetry

Genre/Form

Poetry

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Starting Out from Ted Hughes' Letters -- My Face and My Voice -- Lightning Bugs and the Pleiades -- My Segment on the NewsHour-- Accordion Sections -- Our Next Dying -- Word Choice -- Snow Day, the Word God, and the Threat of the Power Going Off -- Old Men Out Walking -- Inbetween Deaths -- The Splinter and the Riversticks -- The Scar on the Back of My Right Hand -- The Tuesday before Thanksgiving -- Tuck's Coach -- Piecemeal -- Rise & Fall -- November Nights -- A Perfect New Moon -- Working Parts -- Boscage -- Iron-Knocking -- Catkins -- Darling -- Celery Hearts -- Two Squirrel Stories -- There Ain't Nothing Like It -- He said, Benjamin my son said -- Salinger in Arabic -- Peter O'Callahan's Dream of Me Not Being Here -- Witness -- A Sky-Opening -- Middle Falls -- Occasional -- Seagull -- Hummingbird Sleep -- The VOICE inside WATER -- Got to Stop -- What I Am Sure Of -- Coffeehouse Notes -- Fox -- Robert and Noah -- Original Sins -- It Is Raining with the Sun Out -- Blessing-Bow -- Anytime -- Midafternoon Midsummer -- We Laugh Together -- The Gift of a Comeback -- Heavy Rain in the Parking Lot -- Wittgenstein -- Grief in the Tub.

ISBN

• 9780820345048 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0820345040 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2012029628

OCLC

• 804145199
• SCSB-12484180

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library