John Gallaher

In a Landscape

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Produktbeschreibung

This book-length essay-poem chronicles the meditations of an adopted sonnow a fatherstruggling with the meaning of family, love, and death.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: BOA Editions
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 175mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 227g
• ISBN-13: 9781938160509
• ISBN-10: 1938160509
• Artikelnr.: 41373673

Autorenporträt

John Gallaher is the author of The Little Book of Guesses (2007, Four Way Books), winner of the Levis Poetry Prize, Map of the Folded World (2009, University of Akron Press), and co-author, with G.C. Waldrep, of Your Father on the Train of Ghosts (2011, BOA Editions). His poetry appears widely in such places as The Boston Review, Crazyhorse, Field, The Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, and Westbranch, and in anthologies including The Best American Poetry. Gallaher is currently associate professor of English at Northwest Missouri State University, and co-editor of The Laurel Review.

Inhaltsangabe

CONTENTS I
Are you happy?
That
s a good place to start, or maybe, II
Ghosts are people who think III It appears that we
re living, which isn
t always the case, depending IV Now the scene changes, we say, and the next few years V Offers of help most often just end up complicating matters. That
s been VI What
s the most earnest you
ve ever been? Perhaps this VII
Changes that are characteristic of a living room VIII Are we on the right track? Should it have been IX
What would you like?
the waitress asks. And really, X The earth, friends, is doing fine. We
re the ones in danger, XI We do, as we say, what had to be done. The way things XII Roman numerals don
t do much for people XIII How many people haven
t you married, that you thought XIV I don
t know why, but for some reason I just forgot XV It
s a nice idea, to think we might have no effect XVI The early bird might get the worm, but the early person XVII In another sense, we
re foreign to each other. We say XVIII
All animals have interests,
I
m reading in an overview XIX It
s our Indian Summer weekend, coming up. XX The prompt is that you
re supposed to imagine XXI In heaven, according to Kurt Vonnegut
s XXII
When Yer Twenty-Twö is an early song XXIII One of the best things about life XXIV Is being aware of our limitlessness XXV To review, I
m thinking that cataloging XXVI What does it mean to be useful? To be a useful person? XXVII
There are flowers in the dirt XXVIII
It changes you,
they say about a lot of different things, XXIX
The idea just came to me one day,
or, better, XXX I
ve just been invited to read
A Book of Truths XXXI Whenever I see the Roman Numeral XXX XXXII The other night we drove downtown and something was on fire XXXIII All faces tend to have a permanent expression, XXXIV If things contain their opposites, why bother? That suffices, I guess, XXXV Do you do these things, or do these things do you? It
s the same old XXXVI What year, what moment was it, when all the television aerials XXXVII I think
getting out of the way
is a great way to be helpful XXXVIII Wherever I get to, someone
s there. It
s a busy place, XXXIX
And every one of us, a kitten XL Four of us are here at the moment. Will this XLI If only you could burn memories in a little pile XLII I changed my mind. I was stopping, XLIII What Social Security means to me is that if I continue working XLIV
Is our ability to have confidence in another owing more to others XLV Life gives us numerous opportunities XLVI Answer the question with a Yes or No. Indeed. Because XLVII Where
s the fun in doing something you already know how XLVIII What is the reason for harboring ill-will toward another? XLIX The college mascot is visiting the elementary school. It
s L
L
for landscape, where all of us are having different LI
Be proud of who you are LII None of these things is ever quite it. In much LIII
Have you had a good life?
Good question. In the grand scheme LIV Where
s the line between what constitutes repetition LV Looking at each other just now, which is the intrusion: LVI The landscape is on fire, and where are you LVII There are stories we don
t tell, for whatever reason. Mostly LVIII Richard
s back, talking about Easy Riders and Raging Bulls, LIX Most things aren
t necessary. So? Are we LX Improving our circumstances has been a stalled idea LXI I want a house with a lot of windows, and all the windows LXII Is your life the series of events LXIII Why not love pictures? Each time they come back, LXIV When one studies math, they say that what
s important LXV Tonight
s program is Clandestinophilia, insisting LXVI On the airline, I sat next to the woman with the young child, LXVII Is there anything that isn
t hit or miss? After the believing game LXVIII There
s always a point at which each of us says LXIX The new thing. There
s always got to be one, because LXX What does a person need, finally? What, specifically, LXXI Kings, they say, need reminding, but I don
t think so, at least