Desperate Things - Couverture souple

Osing, Gordon

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1941550207 ISBN 13 : 9781941550205

Editeur : Spuyten Duyvil Publishing, 2014

Synopsis

Then and Now

Sixty-five plus years ago I began catching the early GM&O train, #8, to Chicago, and walking around the Loop till noon, to Cubs’ games and a stage show late afternoons before the evening train, #5, back to Springfield. I had my own pass. Father was the chief division auditor. After the game, a stage show at the Chicago Theatre made a great day. Frankie Lane, Patti Page, Les Paul and Mary Ford, those were among the stars of those days. The morning train arrived in the Union Station in the hour after dawn. We slid backwards through the yard beneath a brightening sky, shifting sideways in the rails. In and out of light, I watched the loading docks and water tanks on the backs of buildings, and the morning workers waving. Then the sky went away and we eased into the shadows of the terminal shed and I saw myself in the window, seeing myself seeing. That’s how it is, I say, now.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Gordon Osing is retired from the writing program at the University of Memphis and lives now lakeside in Delta bluffs woods in Eudora, Mississippi, where he is continuing his career in reading and writing and traveling. The River City Writers Series, that he began some thirty-five years ago at the University of Memphis, is still thriving. He sees himself in a continuation of the works of the Southern Modernists, holding language in poetry as re-contextualized, and the poem as artifact with its own protocols and reasons, the ways and means of a poem’s attachments to “truth” belonging peculiarly to poetry.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Spuyten Duyvil Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1941550207
• ISBN 13: 9781941550205
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 62
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible