The Made Thing: An Anthology of Contemporary Southern Poetry

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ISBN: 9781557285799 | 1557285799
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Copyright: 12/1/1999

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When the first edition of The Made Thing was published in 1987, it was met with wide acclaim. Finally, there was an impressive anthology of contemporary southern poets that included works of established poets as well as newer, uncelebrated names. Over ten years later, almost all of those "lesser-known" poets have developed national reputations, and The Made Thing has become one of the best-selling books published by the University of Arkansas Press.

The second edition features twelve new poets as well as new work by Donald Justice, T. R. Hummer, Dave Smith, Pattiann Rogers, Andrew Hudgins, Henry Taylor, Gerald Barrax, Rodney Jones and others. Among the new additions are Mark Jarman, Cathy Smith Bowers, and Charlie Smith.

Many teachers realize that the best way to get their students to relate to poetry is to show them poems that contain landscapes and subjects they understand and can identify with. Leon Stokesbury has put together a richly varied collection used in classrooms not only in the South but all over the country as a means of studying the important

Preface

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Ralph Adamo

My Answer

(2)

By His Appearance in San Diego, Gerald Ford Recalls the Bringing Together of Father and Son

(1)

Gift of the Guest

(2)

Us, Here, Ruled

(1)

Betty Adcock

Roller Rink

(1)

Walking Out

(1)

Twentieth Anniversary

(1)

Southbound

(2)

Claudia Emerson Andrews

Stable

(1)

Plagues

(1)

Cleaning the Graves

(1)

James Applewhite

My Grandfather's Funeral

(2)

White Lake

(1)

Marriage Portrait

(2)

Barbecue Service

(1)

Alvin Aubert

Economics

(1)

How It's Done

(1)

Silence

(1)

Gerald Barrax

Gift

(1)

``I had a terror---since September''

(1)

Two Figures on Canvas

(1)

Portraits

(1)

What More?

(2)

Body Food

(1)

John Bensko

The Wild Horses of Assateague Island

(1)

Watching TV, the Elk Bones Up on Metaphysics

(1)

The Elk on Mutability

(1)

The Elk Uncovers the Heavens

(1)

Wendell Berry

The Peace of Wild Things

(1)

To Know the Dark

(1)

The Grandmother

(1)

Grief

(1)

David Bottoms

Under the Boathouse

(1)

The Boy Shepherds' Simile

(1)

Sign for My Father, Who Stressed the Bunt

(1)

The Desk

(2)

Under the Vulture-Tree

(1)

Allatoona Evening

(1)

Cathy Smith Bowers

Aphasia

(2)

Namesake

(1)

Mother Land

(1)

Groceries

(1)

Orchids

(2)

Learning How to Pray

(1)

Van K. Brock

Novas

(2)

Departure

(1)

Lying on a Bridge

(1)

The Man in the Rain

(1)

Jack Butler

Preserves

(1)

No News at All

(1)

Subplot

(1)

A Prayer to Sleep

(1)

One Reason for Stars

(1)

Turner Cassity

U-24 Anchors off New Orleans (1938)

(1)

Professionals

(1)

Flying Friendly Skies

(1)

Berlin-to-Bagdad (Constantinople, 1876)

(1)

Fred Chappell

My Grandmother Washes Her Feet

(4)

Cleaning the Well

(3)

My Grandmother Washes Her Vessels

(2)

Second Wind

(4)

My Mother Shoots the Breeze

(2)

My Father Washes His Hands

(2)

Narcissus and Echo

(1)

Stephen Corey

Ars Poetica

(1)

For the Spreading Laurel Tree

(1)

The Tempest

(1)

Kate Daniels

Disjunction

(1)

Farewell to the Maiden

(1)

James Dickey

The Heaven of Animals

(2)

The Hospital Window

(2)

In the Mountain Tent

(1)

Cherrylog Road

(3)

The Shark's Parlor

(2)

The Sheep Child

(2)

Falling

(5)

False Youth: Autumn: Clothes of the Age

102

(1)

R. H. W. Dillard

The Mullins Farm

103

(2)

Meditation for a Pickle Suite

105

(1)

Maudelle Driskell

Mr. Turnbill to the Loggerheads

106

(2)

Talismans

108

(1)

George Garrett

The Magi

109

(1)

Revival

110

(1)

Bubbles

111

(1)

York Harbor Morning

112

(1)

Buzzard

113

(1)

Margaret Gibson

The Onion

114

(1)

Invisible Work

115

(1)

Country Woman Elegy

116

(1)

R. S. Gwynn

Body Bags

117

(2)

Approaching a Significant Birthday, He Peruses The Norton Anthology of Poetry

119

(1)

Among Philistines

120

(2)

1-800

122

(1)

The Denouement

123

(1)

Jim Hall

Maybe Dats Your Pwoblem Too

124

(1)

White Trash

125

(1)

Preposterous

126

(1)

Andrew Hudgins

At the Piano

127

(1)

Where the River Jordan Ends

128

(1)

The Southern Crescent Was On Time

129

(2)

Around the Campfire

131

(2)

Burial Detail

133

(2)

Heat Lightning in a Time of Drought

135

(3)

T. R. Hummer

Inner Ear

138

(2)

The Beating

140

(1)

What Shines in Winter Burns

141

(2)

Where You Go When She Sleeps

143

(1)

Zeitgeist Lightning

144

(1)

Mechanics

145

(2)

Mark Jarman

After Disappointment

147

(1)

Unholy Sonnet #2

148

(1)

Questions for Ecclesiastes

148

(3)

Stars

151

(1)

Rodney Jones

Sweep

152

(2)

The Mosquito

154

(1)

The First Birth

155

(1)

A Blasphemy

156

(1)

One of the Citizens

157

(2)

Donald Justice

Sonnet: The Poet at Seven

159

(1)

In Bertram's Garden

160

(1)

Heart

160

(1)

Men at Forty

161

(1)

First Death

162

(2)

Tremayne

164

(2)

There Is a Gold Light in Certain Old Paintings

166

(1)

Thinking About the Past

167

(1)

Etheridge Knight

He Sees Through Stone

168

(1)

The Warden Said to Me the Other Day

169

(1)

As You Leave Me

170

(1)

Yusef Komunyakaa

We Never Know

171

(1)

Ia Drang Valley

172

(1)

Saigon Bar Girls, 1975

173

(1)

Facing It

174

(1)

Rick Lott

The Apple Pickers' Children

175

(2)

Invisible Men

177

(1)

Susan Ludvigson

Some Notes on Courage

178

(1)

The Widow

179

(2)

Man Arrested in Hacking Death Tells Police He Mistook Mother-in-Law for Raccoon

181

(1)

The Punishment

182

(1)

Jeanne d'Arc

183

(1)

After Thirty Octobers

184

(1)

Everette Maddox

The Great Man's Death: An Anecdote

185

(1)

Breakfast

186

(1)

Style

186

(1)

The Miracle

187

(1)

Disaster Poem

188

(1)

1941

189

(1)

Cleopatra Mathis

Elegy for the Other

190

(6)

Walter Mcdonald

Never in My Life

196

(2)

Hauling Over Wolf Creek Pass in Winter

198

(1)

Starting a Pasture

199

(2)

Crossing the Road

201

(1)

Jo Mcdougall

Story

202

(1)

How We Live

203

(1)

On Catalpa Street

203

(1)

Heather Ross Miller

Tap Water

204

(1)

Twila Jo and the Wrestler

205

(2)

Jim Wayne Miller

Closing the House

207

(1)

Hanging Burley

208

(1)

Squirrel Stand

208

(1)

The Hungry Dead

209

(1)

Vassar Miller

Reciprocity

210

(1)

Beside a Deathbed

211

(1)

Bout with Burning

211

(1)

from Love's Bitten Tongue

``Lord, hush this ego as one stops a bell''

212

(1)

``Of praying may (in mercy become prayer)''

212

(1)

William Mills

Pity

213

(1)

Motel

214

(1)

Rituals Along the Arkansas

214

(2)

The Necessity of Falling

216

(1)

Judson Mitcham

Nightride, 1965

217

(1)

The Touch

218

(1)

In the Kingdom of the Air

219

(1)

Last Words

220

(1)

Robert Morgan

The Hollow

221

(1)

Mountain Bride

222

(1)

Death Crown

223

(1)

Walnutry

224

(1)

Passenger Pigeons

225

(1)

The Gift of Tongues

226

(1)

Delisa Mulkey

A History of Silk

227

(2)

Eulogy for a Snake Handler Killed By a Canebrake

229

(3)

Naomi Shihab Nye

New Year

232

(1)

Sure

233

(2)

The Traveling Onion

235

(1)

Hello

235

(2)

Going for Peaches, Fredericksburg, Texas

237

(2)

Brenda Marie Osbey

The Wastrel-Woman Poem

239

(2)

Thelma

241

(1)

``In These Houses of Swift Easy Women''

242

(1)

Portrait

242

(5)

Paula Rankin

Hot Bath in an Old Hotel

247

(1)

Middle Age

248

(1)

Pattiann Rogers

In Order to Perceive

249

(2)

Concepts and Their Bodies (The Boy in the Field Alone)

251

(1)

A Giant Has Swallowed the Earth

252

(1)

The Possible Salvation of Continuous Motion

253

(1)

Achieving Perspective

254

(1)

Discovering Your Subject

255

(1)

Finding the Tattooed Lady in the Garden

256

(1)

Rolling Naked in the Morning Dew

257

(2)

Gibbons Ruark

Polio

259

(1)

The Visitor

260

(1)

Lost Letter to James Wright, With Thanks for a Map of Fano

260

(2)

Basil

262

(1)

For a Suicide, a Little Early Morning Music

262

(2)

Postscript to an Elegy

264

(1)

A Vacant Lot

264

(2)

Larry Rubin

The Manual

266

(1)

The Brother-in-Law

267

(1)

Dinner at the Mongoloid's

267

(1)

James Seay

It All Comes Together Outside the Restroom in Hogansville

268

(1)

When Our Voices Broke Off

269

(2)

Clouds over Islands

271

(1)

Charlie Smith

Heads of Fire

272

(2)

After the Game

274

(1)

My Parents' Wedding

275

(1)

The Palms

276

(1)

Dave Smith

The Roundhouse Voices

277

(3)

Sailing the Back River

280

(1)

Rain Forest

281

(1)

An Antipastoral Memory of One Summer

282

(1)

Descending

283

(1)

Making a Statement

284

(1)

A. E. Stallings

Watching the News After the Tornados

285

(1)

A Lament for the Dead Pets of Our Childhood

286

(1)

A Postcard from Greece

287

(1)

Frank Stanford

Inventory

288

(2)

Death and Memory

290

(1)

Between Love and Death

291

(1)

Island Funeral

292

(1)

Allegory of Death and Night

292

(1)

The Light the Dead See

293

(2)

Leon Stokesbury

Evening's End

295

(4)

To Laura Phelan: 1880--1906

299

(1)

Day Begins at Governor's Square Mall

300

(2)

Senor Wences and the Man in the Box

302

(2)

John Stone

The Girl in the Hall

304

(1)

Death

305

(1)

After Love

306

(1)

Early Sunday Morning

306

(2)

Henry Taylor

Taking to the Woods

308

(3)

The Way It Sometimes Is

311

(1)

At the Grave of E. A. Robinson

312

(1)

As on a Darkling Plain

312

(1)

At the Swings

313

(2)

In Memory of Brother Dave Gardner

315

(1)

Richard Tillinghast

Rain

316

(1)

We Kept Missing Each Other

317

(2)

Convergence

319

(1)

Envoi

320

(1)

Ellen Bryant Voigt

Farm Wife

321

(1)

Jug Brook

322

(1)

Daughter

323

(1)

Sweet Everlasting

323

(1)

Landscape, Dense with Trees

324

(1)

The Lotus Flowers

325

(2)

The Farmer

327

(1)

The Last Class

328

(2)

Alice Walker

My Husband Says

330

(1)

Your Soul Shines

331

(1)

Even As I Hold You

332

(1)

Robert Penn Warren

Tell Me a Story

333

(1)

The Spider

334

(1)

Sister Water

335

(1)

Last Laugh

336

(1)

Evening Hour

337

(1)

Heat Lightning

338

(2)

What Voice at Moth-Hour

340

(1)

Heart of Autumn

341

(1)

John Warwick

The Clay Easters

342

(1)

Dr. Ezekiel MacAllister, Missionary to the Heathen, Delivers A Film Lecture at the Sunday Night Service of the First Methodist Church, Selma, Alabama

343

(2)

James Whitehead

A Local Man Goes to the Killing Ground

345

(1)

A Local Man Remembers Betty Fuller

346

(1)

A Local Contractor Flees His Winter Trouble and Saves Some Lives in a Knoxville Motel Room

346

(1)

Long Tour: the Country Music Star Explains Why He Put off the Bus and Fired a Good Lead Guitar in West Texas

347

(1)

A Natural Theology

348

(1)

A Poem for My Humerus

348

(2)

For My Father at Eighty

350

(1)

Miller Williams

The Caterpillar

351

(2)

Why God Permits Evil: For Answers to This Question of Interest to Many Write Bible Answers Dept. E--7

353

(2)

Ruby Tells All

355

(1)

On a Photograph of My Mother at Seventeen

356

(1)

A Poem for Emily

357

(1)

The Aging Actress Sees Herself a Starlet on the Late Show

358

(1)

The Curator

359

(2)

Jonathan Confronts the Question

361

(1)

C. D. Wright

Obedience of the Corpse

362

(1)

Tours

363

(1)

Birth of the Cool

363

(1)

Slag

364

(1)

More Blues and the Abstract Truth

364

(2)

Charles Wright

April

366

(1)

Cloud River

367

(1)

Clear Night

367

(1)

October

368

(1)

Arkansas Traveller

368

(3)

The Other Side of the River

371

(3)

Umbrian Dreams

374

(1)

Index of Titles

375

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The Made Thing: An Anthology of Contemporary Southern Poetry

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