TY  - BOOK
AU  - Webb,Charles Harper
TI  - Shadow Ball: New and Selected Poems
T2  - Pitt Poetry Series
SN  - 9780822990727
AV  - PS3573 
U1  - 811/.54 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - PIttsburgh
PB  - University of Pittsburgh Press
KW  - American poetry-21st century
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - Shadow Ball gathers together in one collection the best of Charles Harper Webb's prize-winning books, as well as a selection of his newest poems
UR  - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=2045619
ER  -