The Art of Country Grain Elevators,9780933087972

The Art of Country Grain Elevators

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ISBN13: 9780933087972
ISBN10: 0933087977
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2006-02-10
Publisher(s): Bottom Dog Pr
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Summary

Poetry. With poems by Jon Volkmer and photographs by Bruce Selyem, THE ART OF COUNTRY GRAIN ELEVATORS is sure to delight eye and ear alike. With lines such as "The headhouse-pinnacle of the domain of grain,/ balanced on the silo's sloping shoulders--/ is obtained by means of the man lift" Volkmer makes certain we attend to our location on the planet, everywhere given in advance by Selyem's alternating images of the silos themselves. They evoke "a true poetry of place, but somehow it is always more than that. It manages to transcend the geography that inspired it because the geography is transcended in [their] vision into a poetic everywhere"--Samuel Hazo.

Table of Contents

Foreword
About the Grain Elevator Poems 7(8)
Jon Volkmer
The Poems
Moving a Car Down the Siding, Julian, Nebraska
15(6)
Rats
21(3)
The Man Lift
24(3)
Epitaph on a Three Block Main Street
27(4)
Coopering Cars
31(4)
Dust
35(2)
Fumigant
37(4)
Cosmology
41(6)
Beer
47(3)
The Fixin' to Blow Sky High Rag
50(5)
The Art of Country Grain Elevators
55(4)
Me and Gene Autry
59(6)
The Line of Aridity
65(4)
First Summer Tomatoes, in a Good Year
69(2)
Cutting My Father's Hair
71(4)
Arbor Day
75(10)
Afterword About the Grain Elevator Photographs 85(7)
Bruce Selyem
Index to Photographs 92(4)
Author and Photographer biographical sketch 96

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