Patricia Spears Jones

A Lucent Fire: New and Selected Poems

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Patricia Spears Jones's work sings with the vibrancy and intensity of a blues singer.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: White Pine Press (NY)
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. November 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9781935210696
• ISBN-10: 1935210696
• Artikelnr.: 42471558

Autorenporträt

Patricia Spears Jones: Arkansas born and raised; resident of New York City for more than three decades, Patricia Spears Jones was named by Essence.com as one of its 40 Poets They Love” in 2010. She is author of the poetry collections: Painkiller, Femme du Monde and The Weather That Kills.

Inhaltsangabe

A LUCENT FIRE By Patricia Spears Jones TABLE OF CONTENTS Early Poems Wearing My Red Silk Chinese Jacket Spanish Lesson Mythologizing Always: Seven Sonnets Sonnet 1 Sonnet 2 Sonnet 3 Sonnet 4 Sonnet 5 Sonnet 6 Sonnet 7 (Change of Season or the Break
up Sonnet) Poems from The Weather That Kills The Birth of Rhythm and Blues In Like Paradise/Out Like the Blues Encounter and Farewell If I Were Rita Hayworth The Usual Suspect San Francisco, Spring 1986 Baby Hair Shirt Glad All Over The Perfect Lipstick Sly & the Family Stone under The Big Tit/Atlanta, 1973 5:25 a.m. Measure What the Gods of Fire Charged Me New Blues From Femme du Monde Hope, Arkansas, 1970 Ghosts Commes des garcons Sapphire Shack with Vines Why I Left the Country: A Suite: The Suburban Dream A Gallant History The City Proper The Village Sparkles Saltimbanque All Saints Day My Matthew Shepard Poem Laura Hud April 1994-Two Deaths, Two Wakes, Two Open Caskets Ron Vawter April 1994-Two Deaths, Two Wakes, Two Open Caskets: Lynda Hull Femme du monde From Painkiller Painkiller What the First Cities Were All About Spring Snow All Saints Day, 2001 Shimmer My Movie Waiting for the Year of the Horse Son Cubano Pump Trabajan la sal y azucar What I Have Not Done for Love Failed Ghazal Notes for the Poem,
Beloved of God
How He Knows Me Aubade Blue Saturday A Lost Key My Angel #1 My Angel #2 Last Day of Passover, April 2006 From Repuestas Hay algo mas triste en el mundo Y cuando se muda el paisaje Murion tal vez de verguenza estos trens From Swimming to America Beuys and the Blonde Swimming to America A Tale of Morandi Kara Walker Draws the Blues After South Pacific Mary J. Blige sings
No One Will Dö A City in Heaven Dream Book Borges Dream, 4:35 a.m. From Living in the Love Economy Living Room Life Lessons Love Come & Go (The George Hunt Painting) February Thaw Pull Up Pants Second Person Hurting Living in the Love Economy Subsequent to Thomas Sayers Ellis Day After May Day Family Ties The Fringe of Town Facebook Profile Moment (God) in Chinese King Pleasure Meets the Philosopher Back to School Indian Summer NEW AND UNCOLLECTED ETTA JAMES AT THE AUDOBON BALLROOM Self- Portrait as Shop Window Self- Portrait as Midnight Storm Sylvia Plath: Three Poems Last Seen Wearing Sylvia Plath, Office Worker The Talk-Show Producer Keeps Calling What Beauty Does Arsenal Ermine Fop Fats Domino sings
I am walking to New Orleans
Fatboy Slim intones
big bright yellow sun
Randy Crawford sings
Knocking on Heaven
s Door
/January 14, 2007 Aretha Franklin sings
What a Friend We Have in Jesus
Kurt Cobain sings
In the Pines
`what the Fates allow
Wearing Mr. Song Dinner with the ghost of Lorenzo Thomas Nothing is planned Stroking the pigeon (after the film Amour) Occasioned by Akilah Oliver From The Brooklyn Song Bob at 29/Back in Rome Broken embraces, broken wings Patato y Totico play
Ya Yo E
The Land of Fog and Poetry