Overlook
Poems
1st Edition
Published on 1. September 2010
96 pages
978-0-8071-3819-9 (ISBN)
Description
Years in the making, Stephen Sandy's Overlook gathers themes and occasions that have intrigued the poet throughout his career. This powerful collection explores love and death, success and failure, war and disaster, with appropriate measures of wit and grief. Meditations on life as a game to be completed rather than won juxtapose scenes of individuals confronting the challenges that occur in any life. Sandy balances these texts with poems elegiac in tone, written for friends and family, as in lyrics for his father, and in the masterly "As Smoke Robes Fire." Poems about art and artists, ranging from Nicolas Poussin and John Constable to Francis Bacon and Philip Guston, round out the collection.
Profound and rewarding, Overlook showcases the gifts of a master poet at the height of his powers.
Profound and rewarding, Overlook showcases the gifts of a master poet at the height of his powers.
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Waxwings
- Where Are You Going with That Wrench
- Breaking Story
- Shakespeare as Popular Culture
- Flea Mart
- Four Charcoals
- Emptying Air
- The Baro
- Late Light
- Regime Change
- Guston's Crossing
- Days of 1937
- Little Night Music
- Flight
- Aubade
- Feed the World
- Russian Dolls
- Discovered Country
- Inn of the Beginning Bar and Grill
- Nailed
- The New Job
- Throws
- Triptych
- Fable
- Denial
- Huang's Tao Te Ching
- Two for Tu Mu
- Adams in Japan
- Stones
- Historic Preservation
- Circular Drives
- Dealing, 1928
- Possum
- Rockhound
- Thrift at Christmas
- Ladybug
- Jumble
- Sweet Corn Next Right
- Toward Perfection: A Practical Treatise
- Pentimento
- Sixes and Sevens
- A Dance
- Veil
- Terra Nova
- Spell
- The Field Glasses
- New Place
- Names for Birds
- North by Northwest
- The Players
- Landscape with a Storm
- Constables at Auction
- Jerome
- Sewing Bird
- Tom in the Taconics
- Side Hill Farm
- Wheel
- Candles
- Cold Thicket
- Amarna Relief
- Sea Chest
- Fourth Dimension, Etc.
- As Smoke Robes Fire
- White Space
- Restive
- Seriatim
- Seeing It There
