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In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus

New and Selected Poems, 1955-2007
  • ISBN-13: 9780801886546
  • Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By X. J. Kennedy
  • Price: AUD $56.99
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  • Local release date: 14/11/2007
  • Format: Paperback 224 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Poetry [DC]
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For more than half a century, readers and listeners have taken special pleasure in the poetry of X. J. Kennedy. In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus is an ample gathering of his best work: memorable songs, startling lyrics, poems that tell poignant stories, character studies that vie with those of Edwin Arlington Robinson. A master of verbal music, Kennedy has long been praised for his wit and humor; as this collection reveals, many of his poems also reach surprising depths and heights. Donald Hall comments, 'many of Kennedy's poems are wit itself. His wit is his way of understanding. No one else writing is capable of the effects in which Kennedy specializes.'This book skims the cream from several slim volumes and six past collections including the prize-winning Nude Descending a Staircase, Cross Ties, and The Lords of Misrule. It restores to print over fifty poems unavailable for decades and adds more than two dozen new poems collected for the first time. Kennedy has long occupied a unique place in American poetry; In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus now offers the first comprehensive collection to span his entire career.

Nude Descending a Staircase (1961)First ConfessionSolitary ConfinementOn a Child Who Lived One MinuteFaces from a BestiaryNude Descending a StaircaseThe Autumn in Norfolk ShipyardWarning to SculptorsLewis CarrollIn a Prominent Bar in Secaucus One DayBarking Dog BluesInscriptions after FactLilithThe SirensNarcissus SuitorTheater of DionysusAt the Stoplight by the Paupers' GravesLittle ElegyLadies Looking for LiceB NegativeAt Ghostwriter's DeathbedRondelOne a.m. with VoicesGrowing into LoveCross TiesPoetsNothing in Heaven Functions as It OughtTraveler's WarningsMain Road WestEdgar's StoryNational ShrinePeace and PlentyDriving Cross-CountryReading TripRequiem in HobokenFor a Maiden LadyPottery ClassAbsentminded BartenderLoose WomanAnt TrapWest Somerville, Mass.Day SevenThe AscentGolgothaOdeTwo ApparitionsArtificerDaughter in the HouseThe Shorter ViewGiving in to YouSlim VolumesBreaking and EnteringSong: Great Chain of BeingConsumer's ReportThe Atheist's StigmaIn a Secret FieldEmily Dickinson in Southern California (1973)Mining TownSchizophrenic GirlEvening TideA Little Night MusicCelebrations After the Death of John Brennan (1974)Three Tenors, One Vehicle (1975)Talking Dust Bowl BluesSong to the Tune of ""Somebody Stole My Gal""Cross Ties: Selected Poems (1985)In a Dry SeasonA Footpath Near GethsemaneDirty English PotatoesGobletAunt Rectita's Good FridayHangover MassOne-night HomecomingOctoberJoshuaOld Men Pitching HorseshoesTo Dorothy on Her Exclusion from The Guinness Book of World RecordsAt the Last Rites for Two HotroddersFlitting FliesThe Death of Professor BackwardsAt Brown Crane PavilionOn the Proposed Seizure of Twelve Graves in a Colonial CemeteryA Beardsley MomentDark Horses (1992)The ArmTwelve Dead, Hundreds HomelessThe Waterbury CrossVeterinarianThe Animals You EatSnugOvernight PassTwo from Guillaume ApollinairePont MirabeauChurchbellsTo the Writers Forbidden to WriteTerse Elegy for J. V. CunninghamOn Being Accused of WitEmily Dickinson Leaves a Message to the World Now that Her Homestead in Amherst Has an Answering MachineThe Withdrawn GiftOn the SquareDumpSummer ChildrenTableau IntimeFinisBlack Velvet ArtThe Lords of Misrule (2002)""The Purpose of Time Is to Prevent Everything from Happening at Once""Jimmy HarlowNaomi TrimmerFive-and-Dime, Late ThirtiesSailors with the ClapFor Allen GinsbergThebes: In the Robber VillageClose CallStreet MothsDécorThe Ballad of Fenimore Woolson and Henry JamesA Scandal in the SuburbsTo His Lover, That She Be Not OverdressedThe Blessing of the BikesSharing the ScoreA Curse on a ThiefPieShriveled MeditationMeditation in the Bedroom of General Francisco FrancoMaples in JanuarySeptember Twelfth, 2001New PoemsPanic in the CarwashAt PaestumRitesSmall House Torn Down To Build a LargerUncertain BurialInnocent TimesEpiphanyFurnished RentalBrotherhoodDeath of a Window WasherPacifierGeometrySilent Cell PhonesFirefliesMrs. Filbert's Golden QuartersJerry ChristmasPoor People in ChurchSonnet Beginning with a Line and a Half Abandoned by Dante Gabriel RossettiGod's ObsequiesStorehouseAt the Antiques FairSecret RiverCommand DecisionBald EagleMeeting a Friend Again After Thirty YearsFinding a TintypeOut of Tune with the StarsEnvoiNotesIndex of Titles and First Lines

""The high quality, abundance, and breadth of his writing'poetry, children's work, fiction, textbooks'and hislong presence on the literary scene make him one of the most important American poets today.""

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