University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996 Paper: 978-0-8229-5592-4 | eISBN: 978-0-8229-7983-8 | Cloth: 978-0-8229-3935-1 Library of Congress Classification PS3563.E348S27 1996 Dewey Decimal Classification 811.54
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Peter Meinke is one of the most readable poets. The surface clarity of his lines and his aptness for metaphor make these poems accessible and mysterious. They have real subjects - Dessert Storm and acorns, coffee and Tolstoy - but at the same time give entry to that interior world where all feelings and moralities grow.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Peter Meinke holds the Darden Chair in Creative Writing at Old Dominion University. He has been a professor of literature and creative writing at Eckerd College and has served as writer-in-residence at numerous colleges, including University of North Carolina at Greensboro and the University of Hawaii. Meinke has published numerous books of poetry, including Scars, Zinc Fingers, and Liquid Paper. He is also the author of six poetry chapbooks and the recipient of numerous awards, including the Olivet Prize, the Paumanok Award, three Poetry Society of America Awards, the Flannery O'Connor Award, and two NEA Fellowships.
REVIEWS
“These poems get hold of us by the coat lapels and when they release us we are delighted, shaken, and considerably wiser.”
--Ted Kooser
"Peter Meinke writes, it is clear, beneath a banner of wisdom. His gift in this book is graciously to record the scars inflicted on the body and sould by family life, aging, love and music and joy, the helplessness in this violent world of one who wants 'nothing but peace' yet feels 'my hair come to attention; when the military band marches by. I wish I had written 'The Parade,' 'Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind' (a funny and sad sestina) and many other poems in this book. They say truth, and they say it with rue, shapeliness, a wonderful band on the keyboard of metaphor."
--Alicia Suskin Ostriker
TABLE OF CONTENTS
E-Mail from Tokyo
Scars
A Debate on Determinism
Emily Dickinson in Hell
Scars
Ice
Reading at Night
The Vietnamese Fisherman on Tampa Bay
Anthills
The Parade
The Triumph of Desert Storm
Organ Recital, April 19, 1985
Chinese Wish Poem
Noreen
Still Life, 1988
Goalfish
Spanish Moss
Quick Off the Mark
Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind
Labels, 1972
Unnatural Light
Steroids
Shears
Black Holes & Einstein
Stitches
Artist of the Heart
Mazzaroli’s Cannon
Warpath
Pissarro Painting ‘Young Woman Bathing Her Feet’
Tolstoy at Yasnaya Polyana
The Olive Garden
Easter Recital
Largo, Maestoso
Prometheus, 1990
Jonah Caught in a Blizzard
Constellation
The Trashing of Gatlinburg
The Attack
Greenhouse Statistics
Acorns
The First Marriage
The Secret Code
J
Learning Italian
The Bartok Choir in Castelnuovo
Campocorto
Rondini
Fever in Fiesole
The Square Root of Love
Counting
3.141592...
The Math Teacher Tutors His Love
Zero
Yes, Einstein
The Scientist as Gambling Man
Unification Theory
Acknowledgments
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University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996 Paper: 978-0-8229-5592-4 eISBN: 978-0-8229-7983-8 Cloth: 978-0-8229-3935-1
Peter Meinke is one of the most readable poets. The surface clarity of his lines and his aptness for metaphor make these poems accessible and mysterious. They have real subjects - Dessert Storm and acorns, coffee and Tolstoy - but at the same time give entry to that interior world where all feelings and moralities grow.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Peter Meinke holds the Darden Chair in Creative Writing at Old Dominion University. He has been a professor of literature and creative writing at Eckerd College and has served as writer-in-residence at numerous colleges, including University of North Carolina at Greensboro and the University of Hawaii. Meinke has published numerous books of poetry, including Scars, Zinc Fingers, and Liquid Paper. He is also the author of six poetry chapbooks and the recipient of numerous awards, including the Olivet Prize, the Paumanok Award, three Poetry Society of America Awards, the Flannery O'Connor Award, and two NEA Fellowships.
REVIEWS
“These poems get hold of us by the coat lapels and when they release us we are delighted, shaken, and considerably wiser.”
--Ted Kooser
"Peter Meinke writes, it is clear, beneath a banner of wisdom. His gift in this book is graciously to record the scars inflicted on the body and sould by family life, aging, love and music and joy, the helplessness in this violent world of one who wants 'nothing but peace' yet feels 'my hair come to attention; when the military band marches by. I wish I had written 'The Parade,' 'Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind' (a funny and sad sestina) and many other poems in this book. They say truth, and they say it with rue, shapeliness, a wonderful band on the keyboard of metaphor."
--Alicia Suskin Ostriker
TABLE OF CONTENTS
E-Mail from Tokyo
Scars
A Debate on Determinism
Emily Dickinson in Hell
Scars
Ice
Reading at Night
The Vietnamese Fisherman on Tampa Bay
Anthills
The Parade
The Triumph of Desert Storm
Organ Recital, April 19, 1985
Chinese Wish Poem
Noreen
Still Life, 1988
Goalfish
Spanish Moss
Quick Off the Mark
Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind
Labels, 1972
Unnatural Light
Steroids
Shears
Black Holes & Einstein
Stitches
Artist of the Heart
Mazzaroli’s Cannon
Warpath
Pissarro Painting ‘Young Woman Bathing Her Feet’
Tolstoy at Yasnaya Polyana
The Olive Garden
Easter Recital
Largo, Maestoso
Prometheus, 1990
Jonah Caught in a Blizzard
Constellation
The Trashing of Gatlinburg
The Attack
Greenhouse Statistics
Acorns
The First Marriage
The Secret Code
J
Learning Italian
The Bartok Choir in Castelnuovo
Campocorto
Rondini
Fever in Fiesole
The Square Root of Love
Counting
3.141592...
The Math Teacher Tutors His Love
Zero
Yes, Einstein
The Scientist as Gambling Man
Unification Theory
Acknowledgments
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