Field recordings
Subtitle: poems
By: by Russell Brakefield
Series: Made in Michigan Writers Series; Made in Michigan writers series
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 93
ISBN-13: 9780814344965
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: American poetry
Work titles: Poems
Description: Firmly rooted in the dramatic landscapes and histories of Michigan, Field Recordings uses American folk music as a lens to investigate themes of personal origin, family, art, and masculinity. The speakers of these poems navigate Michigan's folklore and folkways while exploring more personal connections to those landscapes and examining the timeless questions that occupy those songs and stories. With rich musicality and lyric precision, the poems in Field Recordings look squarely at what it means to be a son, a brother, an artist, a person. --amazon.com
Table of contents: title: The Way We Learned to Sing; title: This Is America and We Are Boys; title: The Butcher's Boy; title: Orchestra; title: The Boy Whose Every Word Was Song; title: Florist's Apprentice, Age 19; title: Northern Michigan After Bar; title: Rag; title: The Ballad Form; title: Pardon, Trout Farm; title: Gate Keeper; title: Calendar Customs; title: Myth; title: After the Labor Day Procession; title: Minstrel; title: Silent Movie with Playback Slowed Down; title: Barn Dance; title: Rules for Recording Traditional Music, An Erasure; title: River Song; title: Distances Between the Head and Chest; title: Effigy; title: Field Recordings; title: The Wraith in the Creek; title: Mackinaw Island; title: Nain Rouge, Red Gnome; title: The Dog-man from Luther; title: The Girl with Birds for Hands; title: Raccoon Sighting Before Intimacy; title: Habitat Diorama; title: Unreliable Auguries; title: Halcyon and Her Mortal Lover; title: Carnival Song; title: The High and Lonesome Sound; title: Fermata; title: Ode to Joy; title: Shutter, Lag; title: Morning Song; title: Ruby Creek Road; title: Kalkaska County, Michigan; title: Wedding Song; title: The Perseids; title: Origins.