The Disappearing Town,9781881163312

The Disappearing Town

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ISBN13: 9781881163312
ISBN10: 1881163318
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2000-02-01
Publisher(s): Pathway Book Service
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Summary

From Venice to the Eastern Shore of Maryland, from one disappearing town in the marshes to another, John Drury, in his first full-length book of poems, navigates through the twisty channels of memory and perception, loss and desire, where what's real and what's a wavering reflection attract and perplex the bedazzled explorer. In this flat terrain, poised before floodtide, children learn to write longhand and to take off each other's clothes, adolescents goof off at menial jobs, a lyric soprano loses her nerve and possibly her voice, husbands and wives drift apart in their separate obsessions and pursuits. Like a camera's viewfinder in which two halves of an image must line up perfectly to come into focus, Drury pieces together the past and the present into "one likeness that is whole."

Table of Contents

I
Cuttlefish
15(1)
Traveling with My Mother
16(1)
March Evening in the Piazzetta
17(1)
Ghazal of the Lagoon
18(1)
My Father Singing in the Basilica of San Marco
19(1)
Ghazal for My Father
20(1)
Sea Nettles
21(1)
Descant
22(1)
The Center of the Block
23(1)
Taking Off the Mask
24(1)
Decoys
25(6)
II
The Disappearing Town
31(10)
III
Summer Jobs
41(3)
Detasseling Corn
44(2)
The Biblical Garden
46(4)
Lanterns in the Trees
50(2)
Embassy Row
52(2)
The Dry Goods Store
54(2)
Soprano
56(3)
Storm on Fishing Bay
59(1)
Side Panels: Adam and Eve
60(2)
Learning Cursive
62(1)
Postmodern Love
63(1)
Publication of the Bride Sheets
64

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