| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
148 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Time to Hear Ourselves Think -- Blanket Weather -- Letter from a Connecticut Country House -- Another Knowledge -- The Narrow Mind -- The Neo-Transcendentalist -- At Brown -- Still Waters -- Talking with Poets -- The Same River, Twice -- Cities of the Fifties (a Glose) -- A Short History of the Vietnam War Years -- The Report -- Throwing Caution to the Wind -- On the New Haven Line -- In the Valley of the Shadow of Death -- M.F.A. -- Three A.M. -- Parents Support Group -- Ode to the Cold War -- To a Woman Half a World Away -- At the Photocopy Machine -- Poster Poem -- Prophecy -- A New Age -- The Coming of the First Aeroplanes -- The Present -- Keats -- The Day after June -- Brainchild -- The Street Mystic -- Water Poem -- A Last Memory of Korea -- When Your Ship Comes In -- The Horizon -- The Perpetual Motion Machine -- The Lamp Store -- Janes Avenue -- Variation on a Theme by Ernest Hemingway -- The Mystery -- Korean Veteran -- The Persistence -- The Spaceship on its Gantry -- Walking Across the Lake -- Autumn Lightning -- To an Astronaut Visiting a Japanese Garden at Night -- A Winter Morning -- Letter from the Colonies -- The People through the Train Window -- Small Hotel -- Midlife -- The Afterlife -- Crossing the Stars on New Year's Eve -- Overnight in the Guest House of the Mystic -- University Students Strolling through Midnight -- Sunshower -- Mystical Leanings -- Green Pastures -- Cities and Empires -- Notes After Ether -- Grandfather's Jigsaw Puzzle -- If You Visit Our Country -- William Rimmer: Flight and Pursuit -- The Commuter -- The Physicist to His Lost Love -- The Swing -- Evening Train (1949) -- Crows and Windmills -- Night Sledding -- Clapping Erasers -- The Workers -- On the Way -- Poem for My 44th Birthday -- The Flutist -- Cliff Painting -- The Clergyman's Wife Composes a Spring Letter -- The Perfect Mind -- Backstroking at Thrushwood Lake -- Barge Lights on the Hudson -- End of Spring Term -- Finale. |
| Subject |
American poetry -- Male authors -- Collections.
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Cold War -- Poetry.
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American poetry -- Male authors.
(OCoLC)fst00807387
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Cold War (1945-1989) (OCoLC)fst01754978
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| Genre/Form |
Collections. (OCoLC)fst01424032
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Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01423828
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Allen, Dick, 1939- Ode to the Cold War. 1st ed. Louisville, Ky. : Sarabande Books, ©1997 (OCoLC)605300896 |
| ISBN |
0964115190 (cloth ; acid-free paper) |
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9780964115194 (cloth ; acid-free paper) |
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1889330000 (pbk. ; acid-free paper) |
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9781889330006 (pbk. ; acid-free paper) |
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