The makings of happiness /
Wallace's poems cover the range of human experience: music, religion, sex, art, childhood, adolescence, nuclear war, illness, and death. But it's in his wit and good humor, against undercurrents of sorrow and grief that best characterize his poetry: part Emily Dickinson, and part Harpo Mar...
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Pittsburgh, Pa :
University of Pittsburgh Press,
©1991.
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| Series: | Pitt poetry series.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- I. Early Brass; Early Brass; Bluegills; Fresh Oysters & Beer; Birdsong, Anyway; Rebounding; Condoms; Camp Calvary; Smoking; Love and Sex; Bible Stories; Off the Record; Fan Mail; Speeding; II. Breakdown; Breakdown; Onions; Hairpin; Headlines; The Poetry Report; At Forty; Turning Forty; Professor of Plums; State Poetry Day; The Dinner Party; The Hell Mural: Panel I; The Hell Mural: Panel II; Fortunes; III. The Makings of Happiness; Building an Outhouse; Wiffle Ball; Basketball; Barn Swallows; Frogs; Fall; Poet in the Goat Yard; Roosters; The Fox in the Berry Patch; Apple Cider.
- AstronomyNight in the Country; February, Full Moon; February Thaw; Prayer; Burning; In the Amish Bakery; The Fat of the Land; The Makings of Happiness.
