Lookout Man
Published on 28. March 2022
80 pages
978-0-226-81784-2 (ISBN)
Description
Vivid poems full of drama and action by award-winning poet Stuart Dischell. Sometimes elegiac, sometimes deadly comic, and always transformative, The Lookout Man embodies the energy, spirit, and craft that we have come to depend upon in Stuart Dischell s poetry. Inhabiting a mix of lyric structures, these poems are set in diverse locales from the middle of the ocean to the summit of Mont Blanc, from the backyards of America to the streets of international cities. There is a hesitant, almost encroaching wisdom in The Lookout Man, as Dischell allows his edgy vision and singular perspectives to co-exist with the music of his poems. In lines that close the book and typify Dischell s work, he writes, I will ask the dogwoods to remind me // What it means to live along the edges of the woods, / To be promiscuous but bear white flowers.
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Stuart Dischell
The Lookout Man
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03/2022
University of Chicago Press
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- One
- Lines of the Prodigal
- The Foreigner
- Inside the Statue
- Coda (Broken, He Saw Himself at Last)
- Lines about Ships at Sea
- Lines about Mountains
- Lines about Rivers, Then the Sea
- Lines about the Snow
- Lines about the Wind
- Lines above the Tree Line
- Lines of Evolutionary Progress
- Lines at the End of the Year
- Two
- The Work Zone
- Taint
- Lines in the Outage
- The Arcade, 1962
- White Horse Pike
- Action in the Pacific
- Lines about Emptiness
- Time Was the Rider
- Lines of the Elderly Orphan
- Lines along the Shore
- The Last Days on Ocean Lane
- Meeting My Parents for a Weekend in New York, 1988
- Lines on the Invention of Shoes
- Lines in the Backyard
- Lines about Her
- For Hubert Desmarest
- For Oksana Shachko
- Three
- The Streets of the Capital
- Lines on a Train to the Alps
- Cities of the Blue Coast
- In a Corner of the Sky
- Lines in Regard to a Morning Swim
- The Measurement of Words
- Lines of the Mirage
- After the Exhibition
- The Enchanted Bells
- Stormy Tuesdays
- Window Peeping into the Garden of Eden
- Lines along a Wild Place
- Notes, Elegiac
