Good morning and good night : poems /
by David Wagoner.
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, (c)2005.
- 1 online resource.
- Illinois poetry series .
Includes bibliographies and index.
1. The Good Night and Good Morning of Federico Garcia Lorca -- Evening Song on Our Street -- Visiting the Lady with the Plant -- The Cold Doctor -- The Message -- Curtains -- In the Penny Arcade, 1931 -- The Bean Sprouts -- The Toad -- Hooverville -- Nick -- The Three Monkeys -- The Magician -- My Father Eating Ice Cream -- The Guide -- Three Sketches in Watercolor -- Keep Out, Tresspassers Will Be Jailed After They Get out of the Hospitle, This Means You! -- Home Owner -- Tree House -- Climbing a Tree -- A Skating Lesson -- Pressing Leaves -- Breakfast -- Lunch -- Bedtime -- 2. Introduction to a Poetry Reading -- Arranging a Book of Poems -- Trying to Make Music -- A Date with the Muse -- For a Student Sleeping in a Poetry Workshop -- Poetry in Motion -- In Praise of the High Viscosity of the English Language -- Under All Speech -- On Being Asked to Discuss Poetic Theory -- Mr. Emerson Tries to Complete an Essay -- The Three Trolls of Henrik Ibsen -- Pablo Neruda Catches the Rain -- 3. The Models -- How to Meet Strange Women -- Rehearsing the Death Scene -- For an Old Woman Singing in the House Across the Street -- For a Man Dancing by Himself in a Tavern -- Bad Whistling -- Bad Chairs -- At Lunch with the Psychiatrists -- A Report on the Excavation -- An Entomologist's Memo to Death -- Epithalamion -- Eating a Toad -- 4. In a Storm -- An Invitation at the Edge of a Desert -- Moon Dance -- In the Fog -- Trying to Help a Stranger -- Sleeping Alone -- 5. Wanted -- The Lookout -- The Kidnapper -- The Detective -- The Getaway -- 6. The Fire-bringers -- Sentry -- The Secret Agent -- Floating -- What to Do When Surrounded -- In Rubble -- Sleeping in a Ditch -- 7. A Woman Driving a Car Full of Flowers -- Have You Any Questions about Your Garden? -- At the Edge of a Clear-cut Forest -- A Falling Tree -- Burnt Offering -- The Son of a Carpenter -- Big Game -- That Hunter -- Madman -- For a Newborn Muskrat -- Snakeskin -- After the Eruption -- Crossing the Divide -- 8. Self-portrait Ending with a Found Poem from Life Histories of North American Birds -- In a Landfill -- Standing Above the Fault Scarp -- Turning Over an Old Leaf -- At the Mirror -- Instructions for Whistling in the Dark -- Trying to Fall Asleep Beside an Iguana -- Almost Waking Up in the Middle of the Night -- Good Night -- The Old Man of the Woods -- At the Foot of a Mountain.
By continually discovering what's new in each day without forgetting yesterday's surprises, David Wagoner has succeeded in constantly expanding his range in a career that spans more than fifty years. In Good Morning and Good Night, this range includes his usual rich forays into nature and personalities, and poetry for all ages, young and old, amidst a vivid array of memories and explorations. Readers will find homages to the poets that have inspired him, as well as the bountiful lyricism that has made Wagoner's poetry one of our most enduring sources of delight and joy._x000B_Good Morning and Good Night features poems previously published in American Poetry Review, The American Scholar, Atlantic Monthly, Hudson Review, The Kenyon Review, New Letters, The New Republic, Poetry, Shenandoah, Southern Review, The Yale Review, and other leading literary journals._x000B__x000B_
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