The smoke of horses : poems / by Charles Rafferty

Author:: Rafferty, Charles, 1965-
Uniform Title:: Poems. Selections
Published:: Rochester, NY : BOA Editions, Ltd., 2017.
Copyright Date:: ©2017
Edition:: First edition.
Physical Description:: 76 pages ; 24 cm.

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Series:

American poets continuum series ; v. 164

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: After the Flood -- Diminution -- Grackles -- Golf Course Moon -- An Adulterous Spring -- A Demonstration of How One Thing Leads to Another -- The Problem with Where We Live -- Drift -- Mai Evans Counting -- Futility -- The Man Who Bled Wine -- First Owl -- Reflection -- The Problem with Wanting Something -- Unnoticed -- Fitting -- The Problem with Sappho -- Attraction -- Insomnolence -- State of Affairs -- Flags -- Genie -- Metropolitan -- The Problem with African Violets -- Winter Festival -- Leisure -- Caught -- Two Pianos -- Two People Kissing in the Park as Seen from a Speeding Train -- Windows -- For the Last Polaroid -- Carp -- Aqueduct -- Quarry -- The Reductionist -- Resumption -- Royalty -- Barbarian -- Garden State Racetrack -- The Problem with Mercy -- Blackbirds -- Hotel Bible -- Catena -- The Problem with Spotfin Shiners -- Magellan -- Antique -- An Explanation of How One Thing Leads to Another -- Proofs -- The Untuned Piano -- Pelican -- Ellipses -- Forecast -- Summer 1985 -- Snowfall After Hearing Hard News -- On First Looking into Keats's Chapman's Homer -- A Farewell to Poetry -- The Saddest Bid for Immortality Ever Devised.

Summary:

"In this fascinating new collection by longtime poet Charles Rafferty, evocative prose poems insert strange and mysterious twists into otherwise mundane middle-class scenarios. With wonderful intelligence and imagination, these compact, revelatory poems show us what is possible when we jettison accepted devices of thought for methods that are stranger, and much truer. Charles Rafferty is the author of six collections of poetry, one collection of stories, and two poetry chapbooks. He lives in Sandy Hook, CT, where he works at a technology research firm, directs the MFA program at Albertus Magnus College, and teaches in the Westport Writers' Workshop"--
"This is an original book of poetry"--

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9781942683476 paperback
1942683472 paperback

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