Belmont
Subtitle: poems
By: Stephen Burt
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Minneapolis, MN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9781555976446
Subjects: American poetry
Description: In Belmont, poet Stephen Burt maps out the joys and the limits of the life he has chosen, the life that chose him, examining and reimagining parenthood, marriage, adulthood, and suburbia alongside a brace of wild or pretty alternatives: the impossible life of a girl raised by cats, the disappointed lives of would-be rock stars, and the real life to which he returns, with his family, in the town that gives the book its name, driving home in an ode-worthy silver Subaru. Can a life be invented the way a poem can? What does it mean for a precocious child, or a responsible grownup, to depict the world we want? With wit, beauty, tenderness, and virtuosity, these poems define the precarious end of extended adolescence, and then ask what stands beyond.
Table of contents: title: Poem of Nine A.M. -- -- 1.; title: The People on the Bus --; title: Nathan --; title: Belmont Overture (Poem of Eight A.M.) --; title: To Subarus --; title: Reverse Deciduous Existence --; title: Peonies --; title: Exploring the Suburbs --; title: Poem of Seven A.M. --; title: To Autumn --; title: Color Theory --; title: Words for Tea Towels --; title: The Task --; title: Sunday Afternoon --; title: "When the Sweet Wind Did Gently Kiss the Trees" --; title: First Astronomy Globe --; title: Owl Music --; title: Poem of Six A.M. --; title: A Sock Is Not a Human Being -- -- 2.; title: The Paraphilia Odes --; title: Stephanie --; title: Iodine --; title: Rue --; title: Fictitious Girl Raised by Cats --; title: For Avril Lavigne --; title: Draft Camp --; title: Two Victorian Scenes --; title: Little Lament for the Legion of Super-Heroes --; title: Bad Newz --; title: So Let Am Not --; title: Geno --; title: Text Messages --; title: Self-Portrait as Muppet --; title: The Soul --; title: In Memory of the Rock Band Breaking Circus -- -- 3.; title: Dulles Access Road --; title: Tarmac with Soundtrack --; title: Over Connecticut --; title: An Atlas of the Atlas Moth --; title: Swingline Stapler --; title: Prothalamion with Laocoön Simulacrum --; title: Living Next to the River (José Luis Rivas) --; title: Sunday Afternoon in Chapultepec Park (Alberto Blanco) --; title: There --; title: Kendall Square in the Rain --; title: Storrow Drive in the Sun --; title: Ocean State Job Lot --; title: Over Wingaersheek Beach --; title: Helplessness --; title: Brussels Sprouts on the Stalk --; title: The Future --; title: Chlorophyll --; title: Hyperborea --; title: El Nido --; title: Bifrost --; title: Flooded Meadow --; title: Butterfly with Parachute.