TY - BOOK AU - Thomas,Larry D. TI - As If Light Actually Matters: New and Selected Poems SN - 9781680030259 AV - PS3620.H63 -- .T466 2015eb U1 - 811/.6 PY - 2015/// CY - College Station PB - Texas Review Press KW - Electronic books N1 - Cover -- Title Page -- Table of Contents -- New Poems -- Chiaroscuro -- Coyanosa -- On Stationery of Light -- Deep Woods -- Lye Soap -- The Draft -- Cantaloupes -- In the Shade of My Neglect -- Even the Roses Are Ill -- Winter Trees -- Housefly -- Gecko -- Bobcat -- Puma, Cougar, Panther, Mountain Lion -- Wolf in the Rain -- Streers in Summer, Lowing -- The Goatherd's Fingers -- Munificence -- Curandero -- Rudyard's Pub -- Sleepwalker -- The Teacher -- Dark Horse -- Jewel -- Pale Horse, Pale Rider -- Signs -- Ghosts -- With a Chest of Wings, Caliban in Blue -- Our Lady of Guadalupe -- The Dump -- Kimbell Art Museum -- Church, Taos Pueblo -- Shotguns, 1987 -- The Security Guard -- The Art Preparators -- Taos Light -- His Hard Art -- The Old Man and the Sea -- Harmonica -- Piano Tuner -- from Amazing Grace -- Of Dust Thou Art -- The Red Raging Waters -- String Cadenza -- Primary Colors -- Fox Fire -- The Slough -- Late Sonata -- Of Eyes Wondrously Wild -- Mooring Line -- Still Water -- The Light of Mexico -- from Where Skulls Speak Wind -- Wind -- Antique Shop, After Closing -- Road Kill -- A Place in the Sun -- The Night We Were Gods -- Bluing -- Grandmother Thomas -- Mule Trader -- The Cisco Kid -- Jake -- Alzheimer's -- from Stark Beauty -- The Skull Seller -- Texas Mountain Laurel -- Cotton -- The Vacant Lot -- Harvest Moon -- Drovers -- From the Faraway Nearby -- Bones -- Western Artist -- from The Fraternity of Oblivion -- Rite -- A Brother -- The Tribe -- They Left His Face -- Procession -- The Black Hearts -- At Perfect Ease -- The Virtuosa -- A Pierced Ear -- from Larry D. Thomas: TCU Texas Poet Laureate Series -- In the Voodoo Lounge -- Twin Spinsters in Blue -- The Laws of His Kind -- In the Nacreous Hours -- Bach -- Flaking the Slate Gravestones -- French Quarter -- The Dragonfly -- Crow with Red Sky -- Minotaur; from The Skin of Light -- The Winter Sky -- Gibbous Moon -- As If -- Dying Vulture at Sundown -- The Crow -- Sparrow Egg -- Mayflies -- Apache Child -- Hot Pink, Day-Glo Chartreuse, and Electric Blue -- Stained Glass -- The Miners -- Black-on-Black -- from A Murder of Crows -- The Sparrow -- Starlings -- Driftwood Gull -- Hawks -- Raptor -- Raven Is His Favorite Verb -- Crow -- Both the Proposition and the Proof -- Caged Crow -- Old Crow -- He's the Dark Mercury -- Crows in the Rain -- Unabridged -- The Pure, White Crow -- Were I a Crow -- from Uncle Ernest -- The Worshipers -- Stained Overalls -- In His Dream -- White Plastic Knives -- Windowsill -- Deep Blues -- Blue Moon -- The Faded Snapshot -- Warm Eggs -- The Folding Wings -- from The Lobsterman's Dream: Poems of the Coast of Maine -- The Ocean -- Monhegan Island -- Dory -- Scrimshaw -- The Warning -- The Lobster -- The Lobsterman's Dream -- The Lighthouse Keepers -- Mainers -- Tide Pool Touch Tank -- from Chapbooks: The Circus, Plain Pine, Five Lavender Minutes of an Afternoon, The Red, Candlelit Darkness (complete) -- The House of Mirrors -- The Clown -- The Elephant Man -- The Fat Lady -- Hermaphrodite -- Siamese Twins -- Cool Water -- The Dark Child -- Plain Pine -- The Big Red Rooster -- Her Untowelled Woods -- Mama Sug -- Five Lavender Minutes of an Afternoon -- Baby Horny Frogs (Texas Horned Lizards) -- Lake Balmorhea (far West Texas) -- The Red, Candlelit Darkness -- About the Author -- Back Cover UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=4400858 ER -