I'LL BE RIGHT BACK PA

Tom Wayman's first collection of poems to be published in this country since 1980, I'll Be Right Back reflects the author's characteristic concern with love and death, the workplace and the marketplace, the city and the country.

Introduction: What Work Does

xi

from COUNTING THE HOURS: CITY POEMS (1983)

3

(42)

Watching a Young Woman Kill Herself

3

(1)

Asphalt Hours, Asphalt Air

4

(17)

White Hand

21

(2)

The Detroit State Poems: Tennenhouse

23

(2)

The Detroit State Poems: Marking

25

(2)

Surprise

27

(2)

Two Students Looking at a Postcard, etc.

29

(2)

New and Used

31

(4)

The Freighter

35

(2)

Daffodils

37

(3)

Taking the Dead Out My Address Book

40

(5)

from THE FACE OF JACK MUNRO (1986)

45

(20)

Hammer

45

(1)

Paper, Scissors, Stone

46

(2)

The Sound: Factory System Poem

48

(2)

Lecture

50

(2)

Students

52

(2)

Articulating West

54

(2)

Motion Pictures

56

(2)

Country Feuds

58

(2)

Breath: For Fred Wah

60

(1)

Raising a Relationship

61

(4)

from IN A SMALL HOUSE ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF HEAVEN (1989)

65

(36)

One Lump or Two

65

(1)

The Big Theft

66

(2)

Why Part-Time Staff Don't Receive Prorated Benefits

68

(2)

A Cursing Poem: This Poem Wants Gordon Shrum to Die

70

(2)

Marshal-Wells Illumination

72

(3)

The Poet Milton Acorn Crosses into the Republic of Heaven

75

(4)

In a Small House on the Outskirts of Heaven

79

(2)

Defective Parts of Speech: Official Errata

81

(1)

Defective Parts of Speech: Have You Really Read All These?

82

(2)

Defective Parts of Speech: Hierarchy

84

(1)

Hating Jews

85

(2)

Greed Suite: The Skeleton

87

(2)

Greed Suite: The Salmon

89

(3)

The Runners

92

(1)

A Yellow Cottage

93

(8)

from THE ASTONISHING WEIGHT OF THE DEAD (1994)

101

(46)

Woman Who Calls Horses

101

(2)

The Man Who Logged the West Ridge

103

(2)

Country Pleasures

105

(2)

Country Solitude

107

(2)

The Politics of the House: Tables

109

(2)

The Politics of the House: Chairs

111

(3)

The Politics of the House: Alarm Clock

114

(2)

Correcting 120 Essays on Poetry

116

(2)

Did I Miss Anything?

118

(1)

First-Year English Final

119

(2)

Sure, I Was Paid Well

121

(2)

Getting the News

123

(1)

Return to the Heart

124

(3)

The Heart Is Also a Meadow

127

(2)

Modifications to the Heart

129

(3)

The Loves of the Penis

132

(2)

The Winlaw Elegies

134

(1)

Mountain Elegy

135

(4)

The Astonishing Weight of the Dead

139

(2)

Waley, Waley

141

(6)

NEW POEMS

147

(36)

For William Stafford (1914-1993)

147

(2)

The Quarrel

149

(2)

Post-Secondary Education

151

(2)

Where Mountain Water

153

(3)

In a House of Women

156

(2)

The Road's Side

158

(3)

The Bald Man

161

(2)

Insertion

163

(3)

The Big O

166

(2)

The Call

168

(3)

Clown Sequence: The Death of the Clown

171

(2)

Clown Sequence: The Burial of the Clown

173

(2)

Clown Sequence: The Monument to the Clown

175

(2)

The Hallows

177

(1)

The Alts Visit

178

(1)

Autumn's Gate

179

(2)

I'll Be Right Back

181

(2)

Notes

183

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