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Title
Red and yellow boat : poems / by Anthony Petrosky.
Author
ISBN
0807118303
9780807118306
0807118311 (pbk.)
9780807118313 (pbk.)
9780807118306
0807118311 (pbk.)
9780807118313 (pbk.)
Published
Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 1994.
Copyright
©1994
Language
English
Description
53 pages ; 24 cm
Exhibited
1994 Poets House Showcase.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)28800470
Summary
In Red and Yellow Boat, his second book, Anthony Petrosky, winner of the 1982 Walt Whitman Award of The Academy of American Poets for Jurgis Petraskas, weaves together themes of class and family conflict, unity and brotherhood, love, suffering, and transformation. These poems pay homage to the difficult lives of the working class, taking care to allow those lives their full complexity and revealing emotions that drive them both into and away from the realities of daily existence.
Petrosky addresses one of these realities in "My Father's Voice":. When he talks suicide, / I tell him there are reasons to live, / and he tells me, with that voice, / that I don't know what I'm talking about, / that I don't know the pain he feels./ He says it with the voice now inside of me, / the one that speaks and snaps out/ when I am afraid or angry, / and I have begun to hear it in my sons.
Counterbalancing these emotions are poems that celebrate the triumph of love - the poet's love for his sons, for a woman, for lives that can be decisively changed. The result is a moving, intensely felt collection, a striking successor to the poet's first book.
Petrosky addresses one of these realities in "My Father's Voice":. When he talks suicide, / I tell him there are reasons to live, / and he tells me, with that voice, / that I don't know what I'm talking about, / that I don't know the pain he feels./ He says it with the voice now inside of me, / the one that speaks and snaps out/ when I am afraid or angry, / and I have begun to hear it in my sons.
Counterbalancing these emotions are poems that celebrate the triumph of love - the poet's love for his sons, for a woman, for lives that can be decisively changed. The result is a moving, intensely felt collection, a striking successor to the poet's first book.
Note
Petrosky addresses one of these realities in "My Father's Voice":. When he talks suicide, / I tell him there are reasons to live, / and he tells me, with that voice, / that I don't know what I'm talking about, / that I don't know the pain he feels./ He says it with the voice now inside of me, / the one that speaks and snaps out/ when I am afraid or angry, / and I have begun to hear it in my sons.
Counterbalancing these emotions are poems that celebrate the triumph of love - the poet's love for his sons, for a woman, for lives that can be decisively changed. The result is a moving, intensely felt collection, a striking successor to the poet's first book.
Counterbalancing these emotions are poems that celebrate the triumph of love - the poet's love for his sons, for a woman, for lives that can be decisively changed. The result is a moving, intensely felt collection, a striking successor to the poet's first book.
Formatted Contents Note
The Februaries
March
14 Wyandotte
The Unpredictability of Comfort and Tradition
The Man Who Looked Like My Father
Shanghai Four Mornings
My Father Says
Beginning with a Journal Entry and a History Book
Mother and Sons
Two Things
The Visit
Red and Yellow Boat
Here
The Old Neighborhood
11/10/89
My Father's Voice
Money
Holiday Spirits
Love's Old Sweet Song
Shirley
While
Days
When the Sadness Came
Holding Together
Getting Ben Ready for Bed
He Woke
Joy
Switch Days
The Love Between Us
Morning Eclogues
Talking with My Son Matthew About School
Rituals
Narcissism
The Hint of Which
The End of the '80s
Goodbye on the Wind.
March
14 Wyandotte
The Unpredictability of Comfort and Tradition
The Man Who Looked Like My Father
Shanghai Four Mornings
My Father Says
Beginning with a Journal Entry and a History Book
Mother and Sons
Two Things
The Visit
Red and Yellow Boat
Here
The Old Neighborhood
11/10/89
My Father's Voice
Money
Holiday Spirits
Love's Old Sweet Song
Shirley
While
Days
When the Sadness Came
Holding Together
Getting Ben Ready for Bed
He Woke
Joy
Switch Days
The Love Between Us
Morning Eclogues
Talking with My Son Matthew About School
Rituals
Narcissism
The Hint of Which
The End of the '80s
Goodbye on the Wind.
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