North American Stadiums

"An engrossing urban pastoral . . . These distinctive poems deserve a wide audience." -WASHINGTON POST

List of contents

Contents

Explaining the Resurrection in Simple Words

I
Syracuse, October
The Life
Another Beauty I Remember
Thousand Islands
Sunday Morning
Far Rockaway
Jackknife
A Summer

II
View from Brooklyn
The Window
Pin
Dragons
The Syracuse Poem
Blue Handgun

III
After Psalm 17
A Story about the Moon
Dispatch: Pittsburgh
Picasso in Milwaukee
Dispatch: Canal Zone
Salt Lake
Forbes Field, Pittsburgh, 1966

IV
The Leavings
Calaveras
Bands You Might Have Liked If You Were Still Alive
Stopping the War
Rainout in the Twin Cities
Memorial Day
Acknowledgments

About the author

Grady Chambers was born and raised in Chicago. He was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, attended the MFA program at Syracuse University, and has received fellowships from the Norman Mailer Center and the New York State Summer Writers Institute. His writing has appeared in Adroit Journal; Diode Poetry Journal; Forklift, Ohio; Nashville Review; Ninth Letter; New Ohio Review; and elsewhere. He lives in Philadelphia.

Summary

“An engrossing urban pastoral . . . These distinctive poems deserve a wide audience.” —WASHINGTON POST

Product details

• Authors: Grady Chambers
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.06.2021
• EAN: 9781571315359
• ISBN: 978-1-57131-535-9
• Illustrations: Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
• Series: Max Ritvo Poetry Prize
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; POETRY / General, POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Places, Nature & the natural world: general interest, Poetry by individual poets, Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards)