Soon After Rain.

Front Cover -- Title Page -- Half Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- I. -- Soon After Rain -- Late Afternoon Rain -- Touching Different Worlds -- Bull Riding at the Atkeisons' Ranch -- Leaving the Lincoln Memorial -- Heat Break -- This Alien Place Called Home -- Summer Floods -- Watching the Sky -- Hotter'n Hell Hundred -- Running at Night -- The Wrong Way to Wheeler Peak -- The Way the Weather Works -- Fall's First Grippe -- II. -- Dark Drifting Clouds -- Nineveh, on Fire Again -- The Changing Clouds -- A Clown Show in the Sky -- A Dimness in the Air -- Low Clouds, Dark -- The Rhythms of Rain -- Walking Where Nineveh Was -- Beyond the Town -- Chills -- A Contradictory Brightness -- The Spears of Zeus -- III. -- Sky Over Knossos -- Odysseus Sowing Salt -- Seasickness -- Revenge -- The Draw of the Other -- A Curious Man -- Our Friend's Son -- Cervantes -- IV. The Artemisia Suite -- A Finely Cold Will -- Self-portrait as the Allegory of Painting -- Susanna and the Elders -- Corsica and the Satyr -- The Sensual Miracle -- V. -- Bats in Havana -- Moonwash -- Seasonal Changes -- Winter -- When Four Tornadoes Joined -- A Difficult June -- Mountain Butterfly -- Peripeteia -- Summer's First Rain -- A Long, Hard Wind -- A Massive Stillness -- In the Lobby -- Dilemma -- Summer Ordeal -- Last Night's Derecho -- Father-Son Talk -- First Freeze -- A Terror Fills the Air -- The Old Model -- Memories of Mosul -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- Back Cover.

James Hoggard's new collection of poems is an elegant, highly energetic volume that takes its readers through a wealth of settings, times, and forms. As versatile a poet as there is, Hoggard time and again turns his attention to forms like pantoum and ghazals that heighten the readers' responses to the stories he tells in verse. In fact, one of the signal pieces in the volume shows Hoggard unearthing an old story about Odysseus' trying through a wealth of trickery to get out of going to the Trojan War. What the tale adds up to, however, is a deeply moving love story that seems genuinely contemporary. Running throughout this collection is a powerful use of environmental collapse as both theme and metaphor.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.