Shadow Ball
New and Selected Poems
Published on 30. October 2009
156 pages
978-0-8229-9072-7 (ISBN)
Description
An accessible new and selected collection of poems for poetry insiders and general readers. Powerful, passionate, humorous, and often complex, yet fun to read. They go down easy, but pack a whallop.
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University of Pittsburgh Press
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Charles Harper Webb has published twelve books of poetry, including Brain Camp. Webb's awards in poetry include the Morse Prize, the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, the Felix Pollock Prize, and the Benjamin Saltman Prize. Webb is Professor of English at California State University, Long Beach, where he teaches in the MFA Creative Writing Program.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- from Reading the Water 1997
- The Mummy Meets Hot-Headed Naked Ice-Borers
- The Death of Santa Claus
- Prayer for the Man Who Mugged My Father, 72
- Spiders
- The Crane Boy
- One Story
- In Praise of Pliny
- Umbrellas
- Broken Toe
- Peaches
- Invocation to Allen as the Muse Euterpe
- The Shape of History
- from Liver 1999
- Wedding Dress
- Over the Town
- Biblical Also-Rans
- Musk Turtle
- Tone of Voice
- Tenderness in Men
- Prozac
- Byron, Keats, and Shelley
- Someone Else's Good News
- Losing My Hair
- Love Poetry
- Descent
- from Tulip Farms and Leper Colonies 2001
- Did That Really Happen?
- To Prove that We Existed Before You Were Born,
- Charles Harper Webb
- Vikings
- A Salesman and a Librarian
- Death Comes to the Baby Boom
- Waking at 3 A.M.
- Cocksucker
- Waiting
- Socks
- To Make My Countrymen Love Poetry
- from Hot Popsicles 2005
- Consciousness
- Rat Defeated in a Landslide
- To Set Himself Off from the Crowd,
- Conan the Barbarian
- A Ticklish Situation
- Judge Frosty Presiding
- Imp of the Verbose
- Hot Popsicles
- Superman, Old
- Making Things Right
- from Amplified Dog 2006
- Amplified Dog
- Ooh My Soul
- My Wife Insists That, On Our First Date, I Told Her I Had Seven Kinds of Hair
- The New World Book of Webbs
- Pumpkin Envy
- Cat Possessed by Poet Keats
- Prayer to Tear the Sperm-Dam Down
- The Animals Are Leaving
- A Meal Not Eaten
- A Grand Opening of Hearts
- The Open-Air Recital Survived a Shaky Start
- How to Live
- New Poems
- Shadow Ball
- Comebacks
- Blues
- Sneaker Males
- Goddess
- Feeders
- "Ghost of a Chance"
- Big
- Kidnapper-Couple Who Forgot to Leave a Ransom Note Sentenced to 14 Years
- Teachers' Names
- We've Got Rhythm
- I Have Much Better Poems than This
- He Won't Go to Sleep Without Me,
- Flashlight
