I'll be right back : new and selected poems, 1980-1996

Wayman, Tom 1945- (Author).

Record details

ISBN: 0865380864 (alk. paper)
Physical Description: print
xiv, 183 p. ; 23 cm.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Princeton : Ontario Review Press ; New York, N.Y. : Distributed by George Braziller, c1997.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction: What Work Does -- Watching a Young Woman Kill Herself -- Asphalt Hours, Asphalt Air -- White Hand -- The Detroit State Poems: Tennenhouse -- The Detroit State Poems: Marking -- Surprises -- Two Students Looking at a Postcard, etc -- New and Used -- The Freighter -- Daffodils -- Taking the Dead Out of My Address Book -- Hammer -- Paper, Scissors, Stone -- The Sound: Factory System Poem -- Lecture -- Students -- Articulating West -- Motion Pictures -- Country Feuds -- Breath: For Fred Wah -- Raising a Relationship -- One Lump or Two -- The Big Theft -- Why Part-Time Staff Don't Receive Prorated Benefits -- A Cursing Poem: This Poem Wants Gordon Shrum to Die -- Marshall-Wells Illumination -- The Poet Milton Acorn Crosses into the Republic of Heaven -- In a Small House on the Outskirts of Heaven -- Defective Parts of Speech: Official Errata -- Defective Parts of Speech: Have You Really Read All These? -- Defective Parts of Speech: Hierarchy -- Hating Jews -- Greed Suite: The Skeleton -- Greed Suite: The Salmon -- The Runners -- A Yellow Cottage -- Woman Who Calls Horses -- The Man Who Logged the West Ridge -- Country Pleasures -- Country Solitude -- The Politics of the House: Tables -- The Politics of the House: Chairs -- The Politics of the House: Alarm Clock -- Correcting 120 Essays on Poetry -- Did I Miss Anything? -- First-Year English Final -- Sure, I Was Paid Well -- Getting the News -- Return to the Heart -- The Heart Is Also a Meadow -- Modifications to the Heart -- The Loves of the Penis -- The Winlaw Elegies -- Mountain Elegy -- The Astonishing Weight of the Dead -- Waley, Waley -- For William Stafford (1914-1993) -- The Quarrel -- Post-Secondary Education -- Where Mountain Water -- In a House of Women -- The Road's Side -- The Bald Man -- Insertion -- The Big O -- The Call -- Clown Sequence: The Death of the Clown -- Clown Sequence: The Burial of the Clown -- Clown Sequence: The Monument to the Clown -- The Hallows -- The Alts Visit -- Autumn's Gate -- I'll Be Right Back.