For the Kingdom (American Poets Continuum)
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| Rating | : | 4.95 (837 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1880238233 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 80 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-05-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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After Napping By The Frogpond Air Another Morning At Macleish's Grave Calling Out To Sky's Mother Cemeteries, With Two Sicilian Sayings Communion Prayer Daybreak, And The Cabin Still Dark Discovering Her Face Dozing In The Drunk's Box Dreaming The Face Each A Word Evening Bath Falling Asleep At A Faculty Meeting Finding Hard Mountain For My Students In Beijing From Far Off The Holy Land On Television Ice Storm Heard From Bed If Some Had Been Dreaming Of Women In The Gathering Cold At Christmas It Was A Silence Settling On The Cabin James Wright Everywhere Late Night Cable Viewing Medicine Priest The Night Skylab Was Falling Nightshift, Waiting For My Wife's Return Now In The Birthsong Of Sarah Now Is Our Century Now That We Know Where We Are Old Jericho Turnpike Patching Little Things Poetry Reading: We Heard She Was Coming Poking Around In The New World The Quiet Ones Sabbatical Report Small Wind Prayer Some Will Speak, Some Will Stare, Some Will Be Turned Back Standing Still Surrounded By Everything, We Think To Surrender Surrounded By Woods In Middle Age Teaching, Lord, And The Last Shall Be First Then Stillness, Then Longing To A Woman Undressing At A Window In 1953 Walking With My Daughters When My Wife Is Away, Time Fills The Cabin And Nothing With My Wife In Deepening Storm -- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®
"His poems build by the most essential, primary materialsyet sustain the effect of vision Piccione's images are the kinds of dreams we rewrite in order to make sense of ourselves."--Stanley Plumly, American Poetry Review. In the tradition of Pablo Neruda, Robert Bly, and James Wright, Anthony Piccione writes rich, imagistic poems that jar the reader with their brilliant simplicity
A Customer said Some notes on Anthony Piccione's Poetry. At the first glance, his poems are simple. However, there is a great deal of work that lies behind this seeming simplicity. He is able to find the most essential material in our speech and uses it to achieve the clarity of vision that is almost classical. How? Why? Perhaps because he is asking us. Beautiful American Poems Piccione's poems are spare and careful, wonderfully devoid of artifice and intellectualism, grounded in the world. His voice is large and generous, extraordinarily kind to the smallest moments and emotions and beings in the world. He asks big questions and provides comfort here on the edge of the