Passing through customs : new and selected poems / Gibbons Ruark.
| Author/creator | Ruark, Gibbons |
| Other author | Ruark, Gibbons, inscriber. |
| Other author | Wright, Stuart, 1948- former owner. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 1999. |
| Description | 99 pages ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Uniform title | Poems. Selections |
| Contents | Words for Unaccompanied Voice at Dunmore Head -- Night Fishing -- Leaving Hatteras -- Transatlantic Summer Elegy -- Polio -- Singing Hymns Late at Night for My Father -- My Daughter Cries Out in Her Sleep -- A Vacant Lot -- Locking Up -- On Hearing My Father's Voice in a Dead Sleep -- Hybrid Magnolias in Late April -- To Emily, Practicing the Clarinet -- To Jennifer, Singing at the Piano -- Reading the Mail in Early Fall -- Blue Shades for a Daughter -- This Table -- Lecturing My Daughters -- A Small Rain -- To the Nuthatches -- Waiting for You with the Swallows -- Househusbandry -- The Visitor -- Listening to Fats Waller in Late Light -- For a Suicide, a Little Early Morning Music -- Postscript to an Elegy -- Essay on Solitude -- Autumn Elegy -- For My Cousin, Dead at Fifteen -- Chekhov: A Life -- Robert Frost to Ezra Pound's Daughter from His Deathbed -- Late December -- A Change in the Weather -- Lament -- Words to Accompany a Small Glass Swan -- Working the Rain Shift at Flanagan's -- Veterans -- With Thanks for a Shard from Sandycove -- The Enniskillen Bombing -- American Elegy -- Sleeping Out with My Father -- Reeds -- Basil -- Aubade to the Governor -- Words to Accompany a Leaf from Sirmione -- Soaping Down for Saint Francis of Assisi: The Canticle of Sister Soap -- The Goods She Can Carry: Canticle of Her Basket Made of Reeds -- Cold Water Dawn at Mountainy Pond: The Canticle of Italian Coffee -- With Our Wives in Late October -- Lost Letter to James Wright, with Thanks for a Map of Fano -- Sleeve -- Written in the Guest Book at Thoor Ballylee -- For the Pause Before We Decorate the Tree -- Trying to See Through Joe Heffernan's Glasses -- A Road Map for Reviewers -- Two Anglo-Irish Sonnets -- To the Swans of Loch Muiri -- The Road to Ballyvaughan -- Talking Myself to Sleep in the Mountains -- Impromptu Immersion in Tom's Run -- Words Meant to Carry over Water -- Watching You Sleep Under Monet's Water Lilies. |
| Contents | Words to Accompany a Wildflower from Edward Thomas's Hillside -- A Screech Owl's Lament for Edward Thomas -- At the Graves in Memory -- Elegiac Anyway -- Larkin -- Weather Report to My Father -- Miles from Newgrange at the Winter Solstice -- Wildflowers Left to Live on Knocknarea -- Swamp Mallows. |
| Local note | Autographed by Gibbons Ruark. Inscribed "For my friend Stuart [Wright]. 'How but in custom and in ceremony are innocence and beauty born. Ceremony's a name for the rich horn, and custom for the spreading laurel tree.' With high & warm regards, Gib[bons Ruark], 10 December 2014." |
| Acquisitions source | Joyner Wright Coll. copy Gift of Stuart Wright, 2019 |
| LCCN | 98044083 |
| ISBN | 0807123617 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780807123614 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0807123625 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780807123621 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |