Almanac : : Poems / / Austin Smith.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Smith, Austin,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2013]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets ; 63
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (96 p.)

Almanac is a collection of lyrical and narrative poems that celebrate, and mourn the passing of, the world of the small family farm. But while the poems are all involved in some way with the rural Midwest, particularly with the people and land of the northwestern Illinois dairy farm where Austin Smi...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• The Silo
• Queen-Anne's Lace
• Fort-Da
• Thistles
• The Night My Mother
• How a Calf Comes into the World
• Lightning
• Autumn's Velocity
• The Brinkmeiers
• Aerial Photograph, Glasser Farm, 1972
• Dean
• Coach Chance
• The Man Accused of Fucking Horses
• The Bait Shop
• Memoir of My Imaginary Sister
• Neon Apotheosis
• Bingo
• Stephenson County Fair in Wartime
• Nancy and Dwayne, Danville, Virginia, 1970
• Romeo and Juliet in the Tomb
• The Battlefield
• The Pit
• The Man Who Poisoned Robert Johnson
• Nazi Soldier with a Book in His Pants
• Sharpener of Knives
• Overlord
• The Hotel
• The Equation
• Resonance
• Postcards to Andrew Wyeth
• Recollection
• Letter to My Father Written in a Bar in Mitchell, South Dakota
• On a Greyhound Bus in America
• Mission
• The Scythe
• The Mummy in the Freeport Art Museum
• Sirens
• A Serious House on Serious Earth
• Poem for Les, Homeless
• Elegy for Missing Teeth
• Directions for How to Use Crest Whitening Strips
• The Trencher
• Instructions for How to Put an Old Horse Down
• The Key in the Stone
• Wake
• Notes
• Acknowledgments