 | Get free shipping on orders over $25! (In-Stock) The great strength of Chris Rainey's poetry rests on its lucid directness. The surprising range of subjects it engages, the various ways it exposes them, offer blissfully little ambiguity-though he leaves the world more richly mysterious for us than he finds it. The book is dedicated to the man who left a parcel of land, on the Palisades near the Hudson river in new Jersey, to be used as a public park. That resource has served the poet well; his work is one with it.ContentsFallWhen Vinnie Retired Two Years Ago, 1Letting Go, 3First Commute, 4November Leaf, 5Lunar Eclipse, 8WinterFirst Weekend of December, 13Shoveling Snow, 14'Tis the Season, 15'Twas the Soccer Practice Before Christmas, 16Waiting for Easter, 17O Come Passover, O Come Easter, 18Thoughts of Moving Home, 19SpringSpring Awakening, 23Longing for Stillness, 24I Went for a Walk at Flat Rock Brook, 25Did You See the Sun?, 26Easter Laughter, 27Ode to Morning in May, 28The Coliseum, 29All, 30SummerSecond-home Boulevard at the Jersey Shore, 33Sense of Direction, 34Flip-Flop Nation, 36Barbeque Grill, 38NatureThe Beauty of Rain, 41Bounty, 42Soaring, 43Still, 44Healing Woods, 45FamilyIll Conceived, 49Leaving Laguardia for a Funeral, 51I Left my Grandpa Sitting in the Recliner, 53Father's Day and Not One Thought, 54Midwesterners, 55We Gather Together and Come Apart, 57My Wife Is Not a Morning Person, 58Loved, 60Fondue, 61Almost, 62Byron Was Buried the Day Jacko Died, 65FaithWhisper, 71Morning, 72Apples, 73Tsunami, 75The Confession of Joan Didion, 76Manly Worship, 77No Better Place, 79RelationshipsCloseness Is Elusive, 83My Fault Is the Default, 84Lost Love, 85Coffee, 87Size Matters, 88SelfNails, 91Beautiful Us, 92Unravel, 94Sadness Clings to Me, 95I Deify Me, 97WorkShareholder Value, 101UPS Man on the Upper East Side, 102Human Resources, 103The Parking Lot Flag Man on 62nd Street, 104ModernityI'm Still Alone, 107New World Order, 108Revolution 2.0, 108On the Origins of Beat Poetry, 110Various EndingsNot the Pastor Anymore, 115Sudden Death, 117Terminal, 118Beauty That Was, 119Emphysema, 120Swan Song, 124 | | SEE IT |
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