In the Home of the Famous Dead : Collected Poems.
McDougall, Jo.
In the Home of the Famous Dead : Collected Poems. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (348 pages)
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- From Women Who Marry Houses -- On a Sunday Night in Hattiesburg -- The Displaced -- Alice B. Toklas and Moon: A Letter to Gertrude -- The Woman in the Next Booth -- Walking Down Prospect -- Labor Day -- The Black and Small Birds of Remorse -- Silly Women -- Settlement -- Women Who Marry Houses -- Act -- The 875 -- A Lady Charged with Involuntary Manslaughter Says -- Men -- The Bessemer -- Harlot Hag Dry Harpy -- The Professor of Chinese Dialects in a Small University Town in Ohio -- Something, Anything -- Reporting Back -- One Mile Out of New Smyrna -- At the Vietnam War Memorial for the American Dead -- The Bluebird Café -- Before the Doctor Says What He Has to Say -- In the Visitors' Room -- The Voice of the Radio Announcer -- Works -- The Menial -- Things That Will Keep -- Winter Room -- To a Man in Kansas -- Coming Back, I Visit Myself -- Watching -- Next Door -- For T. -- The Paper Xylophone -- The Tractor Driver's Funeral -- A Woman Married to Grief -- Remembering a Sunny Climate -- Emerson County Shaping Dream -- Audiences -- Becoming Invisible -- The House Facing Dahlia -- The Day After the Bottomlands Farmer Lost His Wife -- Stopping My Car for the Light -- Between the Wars -- After Seeing a Movie about the American Bombing of Cambodia -- After the Quarrel -- A Farm Wife Laments Her Husband's Absence -- The Other Side -- Hearing Tractors -- When the Buck or Two Steakhouse Changed Hands -- 1942 -- A Girl in a Sundress -- Dancing Man -- The Privileged -- Progress -- The Gift -- Towns Facing Railroads -- A Friendly Town -- Burying My Mother -- A Veteran of the War Speaks of the Enemy -- Snow Comes to Pittsburg, Kansas -- Edge of America -- Small Town at Dusk -- A Stand of Pines -- Farm Wife -- How We Live -- In the Coffee Shops. The Dress -- Farewell, Dusky Seaside -- Item, Page Three -- The Visiting Assistant Professor on the First Day Addresses Another Class in Yet Another Town -- I'll Be Seeing you -- At the Marriott -- On Catalpa Street -- Buying a House -- Homeplace -- Driving Kansas -- Rooms -- Working Late in My Studio on the Second Story -- Neighborhood -- Dead Child -- Most of the Time -- A Bottomlands Farmer Suffers a Sea Change -- Fields -- Four PM. -- Marbles -- His Funeral -- Surviving in Kansas -- Story -- Talking with You Long Distance -- Packing -- The Day -- Children's Children -- Once in Winter -- The Stump -- In the Home of the Famous Dead -- Her Last Trick -- The First Warm Day -- Remodeling -- Growing Up on the Bayou de Glaises -- Salesman -- Humanities 113 -- A Woman of Substance -- Catalpa -- Blessing -- Upon Hearing about the Suicide of the Daughter of Friends -- To Her -- Night Flight, Delta #481 -- They Agree to Call It Off but Then -- Dropping a Line -- From Darkening Porches -- What Happens When We Leave -- Nights and Days -- She Reflects upon a Sadness -- Circus -- A Bottomlands Farmer Deals with the Arkansas Power and Light Transmission Towers Set in His Field -- Radio -- Eight Years a Ghost -- The Time of Their Lives -- The Crib at Buffalo Antiques -- Spinsters -- The Duplex -- A Southerner in Kansas Recalls Trees -- Just Off the Highway -- A Farmer Dies -- Fear -- Air Midwest Lands on Ice at Kansas City International -- Needing Noise -- She Feels Out of Place in Burl's Auto Service -- The Young Dressmaker, Best in Emerson County -- A Bottomlands Farmer's Widow Remarries and Speaks of the Killing -- Dreaming the Kin -- After Vietnam/Standing at a Window at Gate 2 -- Many Mansions -- After a Neighbor's House Was Broken Into -- Admission. Driving a Louisiana Highway, Past a Town with a Ruined Depot, She Remembers the Negro Albino in Her Hometown -- A Picture -- In Ray's Café -- What Part of Town Was That In? -- My Mother's Dead Dresses -- Vast -- How It Sometimes Happens to a Man That a Noble Heart and Purpose Come to Dwell within Him -- Singer at the Farmers' Market -- Depot -- A Story to Tell -- She Ponders the Doctor's Diagnosis -- Everything You Wanted -- Address -- A Nice Town -- I Describe to My Furniture a House I May Buy -- A Bottomlands Farmer's Wife Speaks after Attempting Suicide -- The Road -- Driving Alone -- For All they Know -- A Beginning -- Buzzards Near Osawatomie -- At Dark -- Seeing Her -- War Bride 1943 -- Baseball in America -- The Suit -- I Drive into a Town for the First Time -- How Life Sometimes Is Like Kansas -- Burying My Father -- A Great Plains Farmer Beseeches the Lord for Rain -- Long Lives -- Dirt -- Mockingbird -- Telling Time -- Dirt -- At a Daughter's Grave -- Why I Get Up Each Day -- Crossing -- Standing at a New Grave -- Houston -- Metaphor -- Indulgences -- Glittering -- This Morning -- Kansas in Winter -- Weight -- Summer -- Piano -- Growing Up in a Small Town -- North of Cabot -- An Old Woman Recalls a Sea Change -- In 1942 -- For Stephen, Who Owns a Bag of My Cut Fingernails Carried in the Mouth of an Eel Who Swam the Caddo -- Kansas Town When the Sun Goes Down -- Parlors -- America -- A Woman Remembers a Night -- Boyfriend -- Hett Mayhew Explains Why Belton Harris Keeps His Sister Gladys Inside -- A Good Woman -- The Ferry -- Smoke -- Kissing -- Going Back -- Ties -- Having Just Met -- Threads -- Love Story -- At Dusk -- In Passing -- She Returns to Remind Him How It Was When It Was Good between Them -- Courtly Love -- The Breakup -- At the Azure Sky Motel -- After Supper -- A Second Cup of Coffee -- Estate -- The Good Hand -- Evening. In the Office of a Leading Oncologist -- Doves -- Taking Chemotherapy -- Waiting Room -- How to Imagine How It Will Be When the Doctor Comes Out to Say -- In No Time -- In a Neck of the Woods -- Grace -- Cancer -- Inheritance -- At Summer's End -- Tempting the Muse -- Who Could Ask for Anything More -- Intersection -- On the Brink -- The Phenomenological World -- Gratitude -- Across Town -- Privilege -- The Order of Things -- Mercy -- Luck -- The Night Clerk at L. L. Bean -- Holes -- Scorch -- What We Need -- Satisfied with Havoc -- Stranger -- Married -- After Losing a Child -- Watching a Grandson Play Little League Ball the Day Ted Williams Died -- Mothers and Daughters -- At Frog's Trailer Park -- Silence -- Work -- The House on Lake Ice Road -- The Wait -- Paying Attention -- Honeymoon -- Snow -- The Aunts -- Walking in Woods -- On That Beautiful Shore -- The Slight -- Driving Highway 71 -- To My Daughter, Who Refuses to Meet Me Halfway -- Dumb -- The Crows of Mica Street -- Straightpins -- New Couple on the Block -- Pristine -- Cloud's Lake -- Snow in a New Hampshire Spring -- The Boys from Brewer Bottoms -- Taken -- Flying over the Scablands, Seattle to Pullman -- A Bottomlands Farmer Remembers a Ball-Peen Hammer -- A Woman Tires of Hearing Acorns on the Roof -- Dance -- History -- Balance -- Blackbird -- Tarantula -- Mammogram -- Taxidermy -- In the Critical Care Waiting Room -- Strangers in This City Where We Have Come Seeking a Cure for Her Cancer, My Daughter and I Drive Up to the Clinic -- Coma -- After All Is Said and Done -- Dissatisfied Life -- Snow in Arkansas -- The Only Color Blue Should Be -- At a Table for Six -- Gurney -- Dominion -- Parallel Lives -- A Young Widower Remembers -- Visiting My Daughter -- Things -- The Widow Speaks -- A Woman Speaks of Blue Skies -- Hope -- Suitcases -- Mother's Day -- Ashes -- Oaks -- Arkansas. Rumors -- Under an Arkansas Sky -- Niceties -- My Father Teaches Me to Bat -- Sitting in a Late-Night Bar, a Woman Recalls -- In Golden Tree Assisted Living, She Protests the Scheme of Things -- Answering the Question -- A Day's Work -- Index of Poem Titles -- About the Authors.
9781610755603
Women poets, American -- Biography.
Electronic books.
PS3563
811.54
In the Home of the Famous Dead : Collected Poems. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (348 pages)
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- From Women Who Marry Houses -- On a Sunday Night in Hattiesburg -- The Displaced -- Alice B. Toklas and Moon: A Letter to Gertrude -- The Woman in the Next Booth -- Walking Down Prospect -- Labor Day -- The Black and Small Birds of Remorse -- Silly Women -- Settlement -- Women Who Marry Houses -- Act -- The 875 -- A Lady Charged with Involuntary Manslaughter Says -- Men -- The Bessemer -- Harlot Hag Dry Harpy -- The Professor of Chinese Dialects in a Small University Town in Ohio -- Something, Anything -- Reporting Back -- One Mile Out of New Smyrna -- At the Vietnam War Memorial for the American Dead -- The Bluebird Café -- Before the Doctor Says What He Has to Say -- In the Visitors' Room -- The Voice of the Radio Announcer -- Works -- The Menial -- Things That Will Keep -- Winter Room -- To a Man in Kansas -- Coming Back, I Visit Myself -- Watching -- Next Door -- For T. -- The Paper Xylophone -- The Tractor Driver's Funeral -- A Woman Married to Grief -- Remembering a Sunny Climate -- Emerson County Shaping Dream -- Audiences -- Becoming Invisible -- The House Facing Dahlia -- The Day After the Bottomlands Farmer Lost His Wife -- Stopping My Car for the Light -- Between the Wars -- After Seeing a Movie about the American Bombing of Cambodia -- After the Quarrel -- A Farm Wife Laments Her Husband's Absence -- The Other Side -- Hearing Tractors -- When the Buck or Two Steakhouse Changed Hands -- 1942 -- A Girl in a Sundress -- Dancing Man -- The Privileged -- Progress -- The Gift -- Towns Facing Railroads -- A Friendly Town -- Burying My Mother -- A Veteran of the War Speaks of the Enemy -- Snow Comes to Pittsburg, Kansas -- Edge of America -- Small Town at Dusk -- A Stand of Pines -- Farm Wife -- How We Live -- In the Coffee Shops. The Dress -- Farewell, Dusky Seaside -- Item, Page Three -- The Visiting Assistant Professor on the First Day Addresses Another Class in Yet Another Town -- I'll Be Seeing you -- At the Marriott -- On Catalpa Street -- Buying a House -- Homeplace -- Driving Kansas -- Rooms -- Working Late in My Studio on the Second Story -- Neighborhood -- Dead Child -- Most of the Time -- A Bottomlands Farmer Suffers a Sea Change -- Fields -- Four PM. -- Marbles -- His Funeral -- Surviving in Kansas -- Story -- Talking with You Long Distance -- Packing -- The Day -- Children's Children -- Once in Winter -- The Stump -- In the Home of the Famous Dead -- Her Last Trick -- The First Warm Day -- Remodeling -- Growing Up on the Bayou de Glaises -- Salesman -- Humanities 113 -- A Woman of Substance -- Catalpa -- Blessing -- Upon Hearing about the Suicide of the Daughter of Friends -- To Her -- Night Flight, Delta #481 -- They Agree to Call It Off but Then -- Dropping a Line -- From Darkening Porches -- What Happens When We Leave -- Nights and Days -- She Reflects upon a Sadness -- Circus -- A Bottomlands Farmer Deals with the Arkansas Power and Light Transmission Towers Set in His Field -- Radio -- Eight Years a Ghost -- The Time of Their Lives -- The Crib at Buffalo Antiques -- Spinsters -- The Duplex -- A Southerner in Kansas Recalls Trees -- Just Off the Highway -- A Farmer Dies -- Fear -- Air Midwest Lands on Ice at Kansas City International -- Needing Noise -- She Feels Out of Place in Burl's Auto Service -- The Young Dressmaker, Best in Emerson County -- A Bottomlands Farmer's Widow Remarries and Speaks of the Killing -- Dreaming the Kin -- After Vietnam/Standing at a Window at Gate 2 -- Many Mansions -- After a Neighbor's House Was Broken Into -- Admission. Driving a Louisiana Highway, Past a Town with a Ruined Depot, She Remembers the Negro Albino in Her Hometown -- A Picture -- In Ray's Café -- What Part of Town Was That In? -- My Mother's Dead Dresses -- Vast -- How It Sometimes Happens to a Man That a Noble Heart and Purpose Come to Dwell within Him -- Singer at the Farmers' Market -- Depot -- A Story to Tell -- She Ponders the Doctor's Diagnosis -- Everything You Wanted -- Address -- A Nice Town -- I Describe to My Furniture a House I May Buy -- A Bottomlands Farmer's Wife Speaks after Attempting Suicide -- The Road -- Driving Alone -- For All they Know -- A Beginning -- Buzzards Near Osawatomie -- At Dark -- Seeing Her -- War Bride 1943 -- Baseball in America -- The Suit -- I Drive into a Town for the First Time -- How Life Sometimes Is Like Kansas -- Burying My Father -- A Great Plains Farmer Beseeches the Lord for Rain -- Long Lives -- Dirt -- Mockingbird -- Telling Time -- Dirt -- At a Daughter's Grave -- Why I Get Up Each Day -- Crossing -- Standing at a New Grave -- Houston -- Metaphor -- Indulgences -- Glittering -- This Morning -- Kansas in Winter -- Weight -- Summer -- Piano -- Growing Up in a Small Town -- North of Cabot -- An Old Woman Recalls a Sea Change -- In 1942 -- For Stephen, Who Owns a Bag of My Cut Fingernails Carried in the Mouth of an Eel Who Swam the Caddo -- Kansas Town When the Sun Goes Down -- Parlors -- America -- A Woman Remembers a Night -- Boyfriend -- Hett Mayhew Explains Why Belton Harris Keeps His Sister Gladys Inside -- A Good Woman -- The Ferry -- Smoke -- Kissing -- Going Back -- Ties -- Having Just Met -- Threads -- Love Story -- At Dusk -- In Passing -- She Returns to Remind Him How It Was When It Was Good between Them -- Courtly Love -- The Breakup -- At the Azure Sky Motel -- After Supper -- A Second Cup of Coffee -- Estate -- The Good Hand -- Evening. In the Office of a Leading Oncologist -- Doves -- Taking Chemotherapy -- Waiting Room -- How to Imagine How It Will Be When the Doctor Comes Out to Say -- In No Time -- In a Neck of the Woods -- Grace -- Cancer -- Inheritance -- At Summer's End -- Tempting the Muse -- Who Could Ask for Anything More -- Intersection -- On the Brink -- The Phenomenological World -- Gratitude -- Across Town -- Privilege -- The Order of Things -- Mercy -- Luck -- The Night Clerk at L. L. Bean -- Holes -- Scorch -- What We Need -- Satisfied with Havoc -- Stranger -- Married -- After Losing a Child -- Watching a Grandson Play Little League Ball the Day Ted Williams Died -- Mothers and Daughters -- At Frog's Trailer Park -- Silence -- Work -- The House on Lake Ice Road -- The Wait -- Paying Attention -- Honeymoon -- Snow -- The Aunts -- Walking in Woods -- On That Beautiful Shore -- The Slight -- Driving Highway 71 -- To My Daughter, Who Refuses to Meet Me Halfway -- Dumb -- The Crows of Mica Street -- Straightpins -- New Couple on the Block -- Pristine -- Cloud's Lake -- Snow in a New Hampshire Spring -- The Boys from Brewer Bottoms -- Taken -- Flying over the Scablands, Seattle to Pullman -- A Bottomlands Farmer Remembers a Ball-Peen Hammer -- A Woman Tires of Hearing Acorns on the Roof -- Dance -- History -- Balance -- Blackbird -- Tarantula -- Mammogram -- Taxidermy -- In the Critical Care Waiting Room -- Strangers in This City Where We Have Come Seeking a Cure for Her Cancer, My Daughter and I Drive Up to the Clinic -- Coma -- After All Is Said and Done -- Dissatisfied Life -- Snow in Arkansas -- The Only Color Blue Should Be -- At a Table for Six -- Gurney -- Dominion -- Parallel Lives -- A Young Widower Remembers -- Visiting My Daughter -- Things -- The Widow Speaks -- A Woman Speaks of Blue Skies -- Hope -- Suitcases -- Mother's Day -- Ashes -- Oaks -- Arkansas. Rumors -- Under an Arkansas Sky -- Niceties -- My Father Teaches Me to Bat -- Sitting in a Late-Night Bar, a Woman Recalls -- In Golden Tree Assisted Living, She Protests the Scheme of Things -- Answering the Question -- A Day's Work -- Index of Poem Titles -- About the Authors.
9781610755603
Women poets, American -- Biography.
Electronic books.
PS3563
811.54