TY - BOOK AU - Hodgen,John TI - Grace T2 - Pitt Poetry Series SN - 9780822990758 AV - PS3558 U1 - 811.54 PY - 2006/// CY - PIttsburgh PB - University of Pittsburgh Press KW - American poetry-21st century KW - Electronic books N1 - Intro -- Contents -- I . . . no spring, nor summer beauty . . . -- Clay County -- My Mother Swimming -- Men Lying in Fields -- For the Leapers -- Today -- Fermata: After Clearing Out My Mother's Place -- This Moon, These Fifty Years -- Lost Bird -- On Finding, in a Book of Poems by Norman Dubie, a 25-Year-Old Letter from the Bookbinder to My Cousin Dead Now of AIDS -- High Summer -- II . . . the music of her face . . . -- Manifest Destiny -- On a Wing -- For the Man Who Spun Plates -- Something to Cry About -- Proof -- Coast to Coast -- In Wind -- For Freedy, and for the Ohio Dragging Itself for Its Dead -- What Becomes a Star Each Night, and Rises -- Eyes -- Each Moment Is Speaking to You of the Other -- III . . . angels and ministers . . . -- Visitation -- Outside the Coolawhatchie Blimpie Gas 'n' Go -- Trick -- For the Waitresses at the Bars Outside Fenway Park -- Upon Being Called Mature and Together, on Respectfully and Summarily Rejecting Both Descriptors, and on Suddenly Remembering the Best Night of My Life -- In a Dream It All Has to Be True Like the Moon -- Dose -- Word Search -- Prenatal -- Upon Being Awakened at 3 a.m. by Lovers Talking, Laughing, Riding a Motorbike Beside the Arno River, Florence, November 25, 2002 -- For the Young Man Who Would Not Let Me in to Visit Keats's Grave with Ten Minutes Left until Closing Time at the Cimitero Accatolica, Rome, December 1, 2002 -- The Oldest Lie -- Acknowledgments N2 - Winner of the 2005 Donald Hall Prize in Poetry. Winner of the 2009 Chad Walsh Prize Hodgen's third book of poetry. The poems roam through history, religion, man-made disasters, baseball, pop culture, and Wal-Marts, with remarkable completeness, maturity, and dexterity UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=2045595 ER -