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Vaudeville in the Dark : Poems.
Title:
Vaudeville in the Dark : Poems.
Author:
Ryan, R. M.
ISBN:
9780807138212
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (68 pages)
Contents:
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Taking Turns -- PART I -- Field Guide to the Night -- O Careless Love -- I Don't Know. I Never Did. -- Hide and Seek -- 1958 -- Cancerous -- Depression -- From the Dead of Winter -- The Miner's Tale -- PART II -- Vaudeville in the Dark -- Art Lesson -- Where Is My Wandering Boy Tonight? -- Moods for Moderns -- So That Was the End of the Century -- We're Failing Better Every Time -- Notes on the Marvelous -- Late Fall -- PART III -- Floating Hearts -- The Last Shape Possible -- Down to Earth -- The Calling -- Poems To Polka To -- Afterthoughts -- Objets du Monde -- The Accordionist -- So Much the Brighter -- On the Water -- Monet at Sea -- Lady with a Jaguar -- PART IV -- Glenn Gould Plays the Variations -- Taking It In.
Abstract:
Vaudeville in the Dark is R. M. Ryan's dance to the music of our times, his search for salvation in poetry. Sometimes funny, sometimes somber, the world of Vaudeville in the Dark ranges from an elegy on the death of a miner in Sago, West Virginia, to a meditation on the life of Rembrandt. Tony the Tiger, Glenn Gould, Chaucer---each has a moment as Ryan makes his way across the stage of our lives. He creates a world both frightening and funny as we-songsters all-long for a "heart dissolved in melody.".
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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