A Sunday in God-years : poems /

Boisseau, Michelle, 1955-2017.

A Sunday in God-years : poems / by Michelle Boisseau. - Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, (c)2009. - 1 online resource (x, 92 pages)

Includes bibliographies and index.

Acknowledgments; Contents; Birthday; I. ; A Sunday in God-Years; A Reckoning; 1. The Debt; 2. Ruminator; 3. No Trespassing. Violators Will Be Prosecuted, et cetera; 4. Meanwhile; 5. Reward; 6. The Subscriber; 7. Catalogue; 8. Two Wills in Old Virginia; 9. Apologies; 10. Spear-Side and Distaff; 11. Brown Study; 12. Field Guide to North American Guilt; 13. Before the Age of Aerial Bombardment; 14. Gibson; 15. Eighteenth-Century Boisseau Farmhouse; Fitz Patrick Boisseau; Genealogy; II. ; A Genius for Silence; Stones Grown into His Footsoles; Found Poem; Outskirts of Lynchburg; Monstrance. The Sad Book of FunThe Good; Sandcastle Guarded by a Cicada Shell; Not to Mention All This Ferrous Fructiferousness; Time Done Is Dark; Larger than Life; Night Valley; Bird Shadow on Window Glass; Recriminating Rags of Sunlight; Hard Weather; Pertinacious Seedheads; Inkling; After a While, Time Passed; A Porchful of Presbyterians; Flying with the Eyes of a Satellite; and if and if; Ode to the Tongue; Die Zwei Ist Zweifel; III. ; Across the Borderlands, the Wind; South Dakota Field Trip; When I Consider; Notes.

Michelle Boisseau is professor of English at the University of Missouri- Kansas City where she also serves as associate editor of BkMk Press. She is the author of three books of poetry, No Private Life; Understory, winner of the Samuel French Morse Prize; and Trembling Air (University of Arkansas Press), a PEN USA finalist. She is coauthor of the popular book Writing Poems, now in its seventh edition.



9781610754088


American poetry.


Electronic Books.

PS3552 / .S863 2009