Scything Grace
Published on 24. September 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
88 pages
978-0-9886922-0-6 (ISBN)
Description
Through the smoke lit pool halls, back roads, rehab centres, truckstops and diners of the still industrial lands of the US Midwest, Sean Thomas Dougherty offers us the stories he has lived and collected of men and women barely working, just getting by, but every morning still going on, even if unsure.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 221 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
136 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-9886922-0-6 (9780988692206)
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Sean Thomas Dougherty is the author of nine books including Nightshift Belonging to Lorca, a finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize, and Except by Falling, winner of the 2000 Pinyon Press Poetry Prize from Mesa State College. His awards include two Pennsylvania Council for the Arts Fellowships in Poetry. Known for his electrifying performances, he has toured extensively across North America and Europe. He received an MFA in poetry from Syracuse University and lives in Erie, PA, where he teaches writing workshops.
Content
In the Air, a Door
Poem Not Titled Elegy in my Other Windowed Room
In Another City
Stenographer of the Damned
Against Grief
An Arrival Like An Axel
No Forwarding
Myrrh
The Literacy of Longing
Lovers like Stencils
Sonogram
Labored
Confessional Poem
Tell Me What Music You Are Most Afraid Of Now That You Are
Here
Drugs in Perfect Jars
Who Has Not Asked, Stay
The Hour Without Changing Is a Long After
Half Past 3 A.M.
Daily Architecture Without Hesitation
Elegy from Another City
I Am a Forty
All Beautiful Things Mourn You Who Stood Alone
We Are So Illegal
The Ongoing Elegy to Everything
As If Two Parts of the Same Hinge
Ode to Nobody You Know
Without Meaning To
Poem Written in the Margin of an Eclipse
Canning Sardines (Slavic Grandma Holds the First Sky Over the
Next
After Szymborska
Untranslatable Autobiography or Employment Application That Ends in Birds
Late Summer Furious Song
Orphaned
Cody, Can You Recall The Topography Against This Light
Scything Grace
Triptych from the Dictionary of Dead Letters
Your Voice is a Right Cross
Poem Not Titled Elegy in my Other Windowed Room
In Another City
Stenographer of the Damned
Against Grief
An Arrival Like An Axel
No Forwarding
Myrrh
The Literacy of Longing
Lovers like Stencils
Sonogram
Labored
Confessional Poem
Tell Me What Music You Are Most Afraid Of Now That You Are
Here
Drugs in Perfect Jars
Who Has Not Asked, Stay
The Hour Without Changing Is a Long After
Half Past 3 A.M.
Daily Architecture Without Hesitation
Elegy from Another City
I Am a Forty
All Beautiful Things Mourn You Who Stood Alone
We Are So Illegal
The Ongoing Elegy to Everything
As If Two Parts of the Same Hinge
Ode to Nobody You Know
Without Meaning To
Poem Written in the Margin of an Eclipse
Canning Sardines (Slavic Grandma Holds the First Sky Over the
Next
After Szymborska
Untranslatable Autobiography or Employment Application That Ends in Birds
Late Summer Furious Song
Orphaned
Cody, Can You Recall The Topography Against This Light
Scything Grace
Triptych from the Dictionary of Dead Letters
Your Voice is a Right Cross