The blue buick : new and selected poems / B. H. Fairchild.

Author/creator Fairchild, B. H. author.
Format Book
EditionFirst edition.
PublicationNew York ; London : W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2014]
Descriptionxiv, 332 pages ; 25 cm
Subjects

Uniform titlePoems. Selections
Contents From The Arrival of the Future (1985). The woman at the laundromat crying "mercy" -- The men -- The Robinson Hotel (from Kansas Avenue) -- Flight -- Angels -- Groceries -- Night shift -- Hair -- To my friend -- The limits of my language: English 85B -- Late game -- From Local Knowlege (1991). In Czechoslovakia -- In a café near Tuba City, Arizona, beating my hand against a cigarette machine -- Language, nonesense, desire -- There is constant movement in my head -- Maize -- In another life I encounter my father -- The machinist, teaching his daughter to play the piano -- The doppler effect -- Toban's precision machine shop -- Speaking the names -- Local knowledge -- Kansas -- The soliloquy of the appliance repairman -- Work -- L'Attente -- From the Art of the Lathe (1998). Beauty -- The invisible man -- All the people in Hopper's paintings -- The book of hours -- Cigarettes -- The Himalayas -- Body and soul -- Airlifting horses -- Old men playing basketball -- Old women -- Song -- Thermoregulation in winter moths -- Keats -- The ascension of Ira Campbell -- The dumka -- A model of downtown Los Angeles, 1940 -- The children -- Little boy -- The welder, visited by the angel of mercy -- The death of a small town -- The arte of the lathe -- From Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest (2003). Early occult memory systems of the lower midwest -- Moses Yellowhorse is throwing water balloons from the Hotel Roosevelt -- Mrs. Hill -- The potato eaters -- Hearing Parker the first time -- Delivering eggs to the girls' dorm -- Rave on -- A photograph of the Titanic -- Blood rain -- The death of a psychic -- Luck -- A Roman grave -- On the passing of Jesus freaks from the college classroom -- Brazil -- Weather report -- The second annual Wizard of Oz reunion in Liberal, Kansas -- The blue Buick -- Mlle pym (from Three Poems by Roy Eldridge Garcia) -- The deposition -- The starlit night -- Motion sickness -- A wall map of Paris -- At the Café de Flore -- At Omaha Beach -- The memory place -- From Usher (2009). The gray man -- Trilogy -- Frieda Pushnik -- Usher -- Hart Crane in Havana -- The Cottonwood Lounge -- Les passages -- Wittgenstein, dying -- The barber -- Hume -- Gödel -- The beauty of abandoned towns -- Bloom school -- The teller -- Wheat -- Madonna and child, Perryton, Texas, 1967 -- What he said -- Cendrars -- Piano -- Moth -- Nathan Gold -- Maria -- On the waterfront -- New poems. The story -- Red snow -- The left fielder's sestina -- Betty -- The game -- The studen assistant -- Dust storm, no man's land, 1952 -- Shakespeare in the park, 9/11/2011 -- Economics -- Alzheimer's -- Three girls tossing rings -- The death of a gerbil -- Pale from the hand of the child that holds it -- An attaché case -- The end of art -- The language of the future -- Language -- Abandoned grain elevator -- The men on Figueroa Street, Los Angeles, 1975 -- Getting fired -- On the death of small towns : a found poem -- Leaving -- Swan Lake -- Obed Theodore Swearingen, 1883-1967 -- Rothko -- A house -- Poem.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 325-330).
LCCN 2014017290
ISBN9780393240269 (hardcover)
ISBN0393240266 (hardcover)
Standard identifier# 40023903312

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks PS3556 .A3625 A6 2014 ✔ Available Place Hold