John Knoepfle: Selected Poems - Softcover

Knoepfle, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0933532539 ISBN 13: 9780933532533

Publisher: Bkmk Pr/Umkc, 1985

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Affair Of Culture
After Gray Days
And Again Spring 68
April Return To Cincinnati
A Bag Of Dog Food
Black Hawk Questions The Masses
Buffalo Skulls
Bus Station
Children
Church Of Rose Of Lima, Cincinnati
The Clowns Tears
Cold White Light Without
Committee On Ways And Means
Count Down On The Moon
Country Night
Country Sweat
Dawn Fades
Day With An Old Friend
The Days Seem Longer There Is
Death After Promise
Dirty Thing
Doing The Last Things
Double Aces
Driftwood Fire
East St. Louis
Easter
Edwardsville Before Sunrise
Elijah It Is The
Encounter On Delmar Boulevard
Farmer And The Owl
Flesh
Flight To Springfield, Missouri
For A Child Who Lived Six Hours
For A Marriage
For Max Jacob Who Saw Christ In Watercolors
Four Above Chill Factor Out
Four Winds Over St. Louis
From A Missouri Land Grant
Funeral Of Christ
A Gathering Of Voices
Grave Of Jesse James
Ha Ha Little Shaver The
Harpe's Head
Heads Up Another One Rising
Heman Avenue Holiday
High Notes On The Dulcimer
His Day The Baptist The
Holding Each
Hungarian Revolution
I Was Looking At Big Foots Picture
I Will Build
In Middle Kentucky
In The Late Night
The Informer
John Henry
June Night On The River
Knowledge That Leans Against The Brick Walls
Lines For My Grandfather
Long Roads That Have Exits
Long Summer
The Lover
Messengers From Elohim
Missouri Hermit
The Month Half Over A
The Moon Full Mottled
Mountain Tree Water Wolf
My Anger Is Hidden
Night Fire
North On One-eleven
October Scrimmage
Old Civil Rights Poem
Old Crazy Fellow
The Old Mind
Old Moon Planter
Old White Knight Where He Is Now
The Other Night In Guatemala
Outpost On The Mississippi
Pilgrims Day
Ravens In The Blue Ridge
The River Flowers In Ice
Riverfront, St. Louis
Runes And Riddles
Silent Day
Sisters: Frank, Kollwitz, Weil
Sleep On An August Night
So Lost In Space
Soldiers Where
A Solemn Management
Son Of Fire
Sparrows
St. Louis Midday
St. Louis Midnight
State Of The Union Message
Street Sounds
There Is
These Two Boys
This House Is Old
This Ice Swept From Where We Were
Trail Of Tears
Tunnel Blaster On Bear And Brotherhood
Two Hundred Ten Month Old Rats
The Two Of Us Here
The Very Walls
Vulnerable Now His Survival
Washington Nocturne
Well Then Young Agnes Says
What Completes Us
When The Wound Speaks
When You Left
Where Am I
The White Mule
Winnebago Chief To The U.s. Dragoons Green Bay 1836
The Wolfs Howl Wears Us
You Don't Have To Be Afraid
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

John Knoepfle's Selected Poems comprises large parts of his earlier books Rivers Into Islands (1965) and The Intricate Land (1970) and smaller selections from seven others, including Thinking of Offerings (1975) and A Box of Sandalwood (1979). Its total of more than a hundred poems offers a clear vision and vivid statement of truth out of a heart in the heart of the country. Knoepfle's own voice is clear, virile, and honest. It is middle-American in its wry wit and cadence, its colloquial idiom; cultured in its range of imagery and its breadth of diction; and skilled in its manipulation of speech. Above all, Knoepfle has a sure sense of form, in both line and poem; scarcely a line isn't vivid with image or rich in sound and fitted meticulously to its poem's rhythm. It's a rare pleasure to read a poet who, once he's received the poem, knows its beginning, middle, and end and can shape it to its essentials without clutter or self-conscious embellishment. Recommended for all public and academic libraries and for readers who want the genuine article. -- From Independent Publisher

About this edition

• Publisher: Bkmk Pr/Umkc
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0933532539
• ISBN 13: 9780933532533
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 96