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Subjects: After-Music (Made in Michigan Writers Series)
Conrad Hilberry
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Description for Subjects: After-Music (Made in Michigan Writers Series)
Paperback. A collection of meditations on both the personal and universal. It lets readers listen in on the thoughts of objects, including an oboe, a cherry pie, a moustache, a mousetrap, and a waning moon. It looks at horseshoe crabs, dust mites, memories stored in the hippocampus, creatures steering by pheromones through the sexual dark. Series: Made in Michigan Writers S. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 248 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 268.
This is a new collection by esteemed Michigan poet Conrad Hilberry, his sixth full-length book of poetry.After-Music is a varied and rich collection of meditations on both the personal and universal. Among the many intriguing places, people, and events that Hilberry brings to life in these poems are watching manatees in a Florida canal, a reluctant priest blessing the animals in Mexico, a rushed and sullen checkout girl in the supermarket, and Day of the Dead skeletons that form a mariachi band. Some poems are formal - in sonnets, quatrains, and tetrameter couples - but most are free verse, all ... Read more
This is a new collection by esteemed Michigan poet Conrad Hilberry, his sixth full-length book of poetry.After-Music is a varied and rich collection of meditations on both the personal and universal. Among the many intriguing places, people, and events that Hilberry brings to life in these poems are watching manatees in a Florida canal, a reluctant priest blessing the animals in Mexico, a rushed and sullen checkout girl in the supermarket, and Day of the Dead skeletons that form a mariachi band. Some poems are formal - in sonnets, quatrains, and tetrameter couples - but most are free verse, all ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Wayne State University Press
Condition
New
Series
Made in Michigan Writers S.
Number of Pages
152
Place of Publication
Detroit, MI, United States
ISBN
9780814333525
SKU
V9780814333525
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About Conrad Hilberry
Conrad Hilberry is emeritus professor of English at Kalamazoo College and author of several books of poetry, including The Fingernail of Luck, Player Piano, and Sorting the Smoke, and co-editor of Contemporary Michigan Poetry: Poems from the Third Coast (Wayne State University Press, 1988).
Reviews for Subjects: After-Music (Made in Michigan Writers Series)
"These poems are intimate and humble, steeped in a variety of forms and rhythms, traveling from childhood to the final contemplation of death. Hilberry makes writing look effortless." - Marcia Aldrich, associate professor of English at Michigan State"