A little something -- Days like prose -- Mud -- Song -- Gents' -- Landscape with cows -- Suns -- The widow -- Up -- Hush -- Wheat -- The fence -- Song as if the spirit world were flesh -- Lullaby -- Magpie -- Above the timberline -- The meniscus -- If steam is water's memory -- Types of congruity -- Facts and figures -- Hopscotch -- The ticket -- The geese -- The copper beech -- Tsankawi -- Epithalamium: in our cities -- Lacrimae rerum -- The Sears catalogue -- Alchemy -- Reading Antony and Cleopatra aloud on summer vacation -- A short history of numbers.
Summary:
"Days Like Prose, Alan Michael Parker's first collection of poetry, is back in a second edition. This 2019 edition is redesigned but otherwise unchanged from the original, which was named a Notable Book of the Year by the National Book Critics Circle for 1997. Fellow poet Richard Wilbur wrote that 'this is an arresting first book; it gives us a poetry deep in particular moments and eloquently alert to the world's curious and agitated detail. Alan Michael Parker's poems are full, as poems should be, of surprises which turn out to be simply true.' And Publishers Weekly wrote, 'With a delicate lucidity, the poems in this first collection explore varieties of solitude. . . . The deft, formal quality of these poems coupled with Parker's eye for the telling detail make this a book of stirring, quiet beauty'"-- Provided by publisher.
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