Title: The narrows : poems /
Authors: Tobin, Daniel.
Publisher: Four Way Books ; Distributed by University Press of New England,
Year: 2005
Subjects: American poetry
Abstract: Coming of age in Brooklyn's Bay Ridge, these poems explore what it is to be an Irish American Catholic; a dutiful son of hard drinking, sometimes hilarious and sometimes tragic parents; a son of Brooklyn; and too, deeply rooted to the country of his ancestors, Ireland. Dark, funny, and sometimes troubling, these poems, always accessible, track a life well lived and felt.
Contents: Proem: double life -- I. The Narrows. The Narrows -- II. From the Country of the dead. The pier -- My mother at the house of her father's fathers -- II. Bay Ridge. Prelude: The Narrows -- The avenue -- Scar -- Broadcast -- Blackout -- The apartments -- Stickball -- St. Anselm's -- Long jump pit -- Eye-full tower -- Barkaloo cemetery -- Shore road -- Skytop -- Brown-eyed girl -- IV. A coat. A coat -- A life not lived -- Pallbearers and Emily Dickinson's funeral -- At the Lower East Side tenement museum -- The other half -- The country -- The island -- Lost garden elegies -- Aftermath -- A mosque in Brooklyn -- V. At the tree of many, one. At the tree of many, one -- VI. Pearl court. The house -- My grandmother's apartment -- Hope chest -- Inheritors -- Bridge view -- Back window -- Prospect -- VII. Thinking of Meade Mountain -- Thinking of Meade Mountain -- VIII. Home in transit. According to legend -- A chalk primavera on Eden Quay -- Ballsbridge, dark night -- The lift -- Banshee -- Inishboffin suite -- A dolmen in the burren -- Two blackouts -- In the green-wood -- IX. Twentieth century limited. Twentieth century limited -- X. The ring. Near Nag's Head -- A cemetery in Brooklyn -- The book of Ruth -- 502 Schenck Avenue -- The dock road -- Crossings -- St. John -- The ring -- XI. The Rainbow Café . The Rainbow Café -- Drinking with my father at Muse's Bar -- Galilee -- My mother's eye -- Elegy -- Afterlives -- XII. Outerbridge crossing. Outerbridge crossing.