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The calculus of falling bodies : poems / Geoff Rips

Author
Rips, Geoffrey
Published
San Antonio, Texas : Wings Press, 2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Description
1 online resource (1 volume)
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Contents
Front Cover -- Title Page -- Half Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Dedication -- Poetry, Journalism, Writing, the World -- Compost -- Compost -- Dolphin -- Wetlands -- I lift her up -- Resuscitation -- Halitosis or I'm Not Sherman and You're Not Georgia -- Why I Never Have Anything to Say to You -- Traffic -- Mowing in the Dark -- Epoxy -- St. Matthew's Passion -- Something larger -- Appeal -- Aubade -- Resuscitation -- Personal Geography -- A Landscape -- New York City, The Way It Is -- As I Was Saying -- Ode to the Lesser and Greater Cockroach -- Survival -- Tonight the World Started Over -- Looking for Work -- Work -- Madrid 1974. and Fata Susanna, Don't You CryFaced with a Stalled Economy, They Try to Bring an End to What We Know -- Dreams -- Meditation -- Driving -- These Days -- San Antonio -- Mullet -- Cleaning Fish -- Dan Worked in a Nursing Home -- The Seasons -- It Can't Be Denied -- Light Years -- Thanksgiving -- The Calculus of Falling Bodies -- The Calculus of Falling Bodies -- Harvest -- Losing Uncle Ed -- Shaking Hands -- Hygiene -- War is a Cure for Loneliness -- At 51 -- An Ending -- Things are gonna break -- For My Father -- A Walk in the Park -- No End -- What Is It? -- The Art of Poetry -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- Back Cover.
Summary
The poems in this collection span the 40 years in which Geoff Rips has undertaken a deeply personal attempt to understand the mystery of things. The pieces parallel his interest in the greater world and burrow deep inside his own psyche in the attempt to find meaning. His poems include the pantheon of subjects embraced by poets through the ages - life, death, love, and family - and they also discuss the natural world and the material world, reality TV shows, looking for work, traffic, the lives of window washers and hot dog vendors, the wetlands, and pelicans, plovers, and dolphins. This is the whole of life, seen by looking closely at its parts.
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9781609404208 (electronic bk.)
1609404203 (electronic bk.)
9781609404222 (electronic bk.)
160940422X (electronic bk.)
9781609404215 (kindle-mobipocket ebook)
1609404211 (kindle-mobipocket ebook)
1322394490 (ebk)
9781322394497 (ebk)
9781609404192
160940419X
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