Your father on the train of ghosts : poems / by G.C. Waldrep and John Gallaher.
2011
PS3623.A358 Y68 2011
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Title
Your father on the train of ghosts : poems / by G.C. Waldrep and John Gallaher.
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
9781934414484
1934414484
1934414484
Imprint
Rochester, NY : BOA Editions, 2011.
Description
230 p. ; 23 cm.
Exhibited
2011
Call Number
PS3623.A358 Y68 2011
Summary
"Your Father on the Train of Ghosts is one of the most extensive collaborations in American poetry. Over the course of a year, acclaimed poets G.C. Waldrep and John Gallaher wrote poems back and forth, sometimes once or twice a week, sometimes five or six a day. As the collaboration deepened, a third "voice" emerged that neither poet can claim as solely their own. The poems of Your Father on the Train of Ghosts read as lyric snapshots of a culture we are all too familiar with, even as it slips from us: malls and supermarkets, museums and parades, toxic waste and cheesecakes, ghosts and fire, fathers and sons. Ultimately, these fables and confessions constitute a sort of gentle apocalypse, a user-friendly self-help manual for the end of time. G.C. Waldrep is author of Goldbeater's Skin (2003 Colorado Prize), Disclamor, and Archicembalo (2008 Dorset Prize). He has won awards from the Poetry Society of America and Academy of American Poets; fellowships at Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony; and NEA fellowship. He holds an MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and teaches at Bucknell University. John Gallaher is author of Gentlemen in Turbans, Ladies in Cauls, The Little Book of Guesses (Levis Poetry Prize), and Map of the Folded World. His poetry has been included in the Best American Poetry series and numerous journals and anthologies. He co-edits The Laurel Review, GreenTower Press, and the Akron Series of Contemporary Poetics. He teaches at Northwest Missouri State University."--Publisher's description.
Formatted Contents Note
Automated town
The baby catalogues
The house rhapsody
Your new birthday
From which mortar cities rise
The anodynes
The archaeologists
Anniversaries of bad things
Advice to passengers
Elegy for the Manhattan Project
Trade deficit
Your lover, later
Elemental picture of boats in the distance
Elegy for the most people
Space to the west
Outside the elevator museum
A short history of friendship
In the file of discontinued things
Gun control in the occupation
Cars moving at reasonable speeds
Domestic light
The city experiment
Your father on the train of ghosts
Daily life in classical antiquity
The circus of probable sighs
All trains leaving Penn Station are ghost trains
The bridge at rest
Error as beauty
University park
Meditation on subjects
On your smooth ride
The Frackville angel
Busman's holiday
The history of entanglements
Elegy for Rosa Parks
The world is empty & a splash of salts
Candling the bodies
Escape strategies
The great migrations
Your father calling from the museum
The Sherpas of Canada
You need not be present to win
And as they waited in their baskets on the hillsides it began to rain
My father in other places
On the performativity of grief as ecstatic culture
Elegy for Henrietta Lacks
The overgrown war
The birthday hand
The tourist
Don't wear out your welcome
Winter acknowledgments
The solitary death of the Woolworth Building
The night autopsy
Making love in the balloon maze
In the later measures
Scandinavian skies
Landscape with missing elements
Maybe it has nothing to do with you
The radio inside your health plan is sleeping
As mastery declines into altitude and forgiveness
Flight of the demolition factory
Aromatherapy in the age of new form
Everything you know that isn't true.
Ideal boating conditions
Pharaoh's daughter (Chagall motion study)
You'll get nothing more from me today, she said
Apology re: the second Viennese school
Trenton aubade
Your father seen from space
Ode to Lyndon Baines Johnson
Elegy for the developing story
Would you like to try one of our specials
Limited time offer
Can't you sit still for once
Different from what you bargained for
The Carnegie system
Box with noise elements
Halls of fame II
How are things in Glocca Morra
After the war, the orchards
Cedar Rapids eclogue
Another day at the festival
Ethel & Myrtle try to avoid how emotional they get
Cesarean selection
Fall in Istanbul
On a raft, relaxing into the west, where we are
Production still from Adam-12
Your mutual trappist
I'll decorate my house with you
The apple in chrome
If I die before I wake
Your hands as the third law of motion
The other palace
Stolen crutch, wrapped in yarn
Your reply is necessary
Because it's better not to know
Your costume drama is falling
Of certain small, valuable kitchen appliances
Baptism of signs
The welcome chamber
A false sense of well-being
A short history of Kiki Smith
Parable of the door
Nullstellensatz
The little crisis in summer
The monkey cages in winter
This is the part where you whistle
Love is everywhere
Thousand-year reign
One hundred & one best worlds
Having a sense of purpose
The Sahara as anecdote
Parable of the anorak in the rain
In praise of hard candy
This is a wolf with many sharp teeth
Single-celled organism
Praise impromptu
On the fall of Constantinople
External sonata
Portrait while you wait
On liberalism
The dream of Egypt
Pain can warn us of danger
On the death of Andrew Wyeth
Welcome to the next project
After music.
The baby catalogues
The house rhapsody
Your new birthday
From which mortar cities rise
The anodynes
The archaeologists
Anniversaries of bad things
Advice to passengers
Elegy for the Manhattan Project
Trade deficit
Your lover, later
Elemental picture of boats in the distance
Elegy for the most people
Space to the west
Outside the elevator museum
A short history of friendship
In the file of discontinued things
Gun control in the occupation
Cars moving at reasonable speeds
Domestic light
The city experiment
Your father on the train of ghosts
Daily life in classical antiquity
The circus of probable sighs
All trains leaving Penn Station are ghost trains
The bridge at rest
Error as beauty
University park
Meditation on subjects
On your smooth ride
The Frackville angel
Busman's holiday
The history of entanglements
Elegy for Rosa Parks
The world is empty & a splash of salts
Candling the bodies
Escape strategies
The great migrations
Your father calling from the museum
The Sherpas of Canada
You need not be present to win
And as they waited in their baskets on the hillsides it began to rain
My father in other places
On the performativity of grief as ecstatic culture
Elegy for Henrietta Lacks
The overgrown war
The birthday hand
The tourist
Don't wear out your welcome
Winter acknowledgments
The solitary death of the Woolworth Building
The night autopsy
Making love in the balloon maze
In the later measures
Scandinavian skies
Landscape with missing elements
Maybe it has nothing to do with you
The radio inside your health plan is sleeping
As mastery declines into altitude and forgiveness
Flight of the demolition factory
Aromatherapy in the age of new form
Everything you know that isn't true.
Ideal boating conditions
Pharaoh's daughter (Chagall motion study)
You'll get nothing more from me today, she said
Apology re: the second Viennese school
Trenton aubade
Your father seen from space
Ode to Lyndon Baines Johnson
Elegy for the developing story
Would you like to try one of our specials
Limited time offer
Can't you sit still for once
Different from what you bargained for
The Carnegie system
Box with noise elements
Halls of fame II
How are things in Glocca Morra
After the war, the orchards
Cedar Rapids eclogue
Another day at the festival
Ethel & Myrtle try to avoid how emotional they get
Cesarean selection
Fall in Istanbul
On a raft, relaxing into the west, where we are
Production still from Adam-12
Your mutual trappist
I'll decorate my house with you
The apple in chrome
If I die before I wake
Your hands as the third law of motion
The other palace
Stolen crutch, wrapped in yarn
Your reply is necessary
Because it's better not to know
Your costume drama is falling
Of certain small, valuable kitchen appliances
Baptism of signs
The welcome chamber
A false sense of well-being
A short history of Kiki Smith
Parable of the door
Nullstellensatz
The little crisis in summer
The monkey cages in winter
This is the part where you whistle
Love is everywhere
Thousand-year reign
One hundred & one best worlds
Having a sense of purpose
The Sahara as anecdote
Parable of the anorak in the rain
In praise of hard candy
This is a wolf with many sharp teeth
Single-celled organism
Praise impromptu
On the fall of Constantinople
External sonata
Portrait while you wait
On liberalism
The dream of Egypt
Pain can warn us of danger
On the death of Andrew Wyeth
Welcome to the next project
After music.
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