Gust
Subtitle: poems
By: Greg Alan Brownderville
Publisher: TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Evanston, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 124
ISBN-13: 9780810152212
Notes: Poems, some previously published.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Firecrackers; title: Part 1: Press in; title: Dark corner; title: Telephoning; title: Soul-selling ritual; title: Honey behind the sun; title: Driftwood; title: Mawu names her chief assistant; title: Art in heaven; title: Lord, make me a sheep; title: Last song for Brother Langston; title: Part 2: The wild yonder blues; title: From a nationally televised press conference starring the poetic sheriff Joseph Kilpatrick Conway after a Van Gogh painting is stolen from a Little Rock exhibit and recovered in Monroe County; title: All of this only fifty miles from the former home of L. Frank Baum, creator of the Wonderful wizard of Oz; title: The mailbox; title: The palm tree soliloquies; title: Marble to flesh, flesh to marble; title: Vanilla home run; title: The love song of Jephthah's daughter; title: She dances with tornadoes; title: Sex and Pentecost; title: Boy in the buttonbush; title: Little Lotty Knox; title: Panjandrum; title: Confession; title: Mystery; title: Part 3: Becoming Hot Tamale Charlie; title: Carlo Silvestrini, child of Sunnyside; title: Carlo on the hog slaughter; title: Carlo flunks the seventh grade; title: Carlo finds out where his new friend's name came from; title: Carlo cuts a rose for Splendi Pretti; title: Carlo goes to the new Catholic church near Sunnyside; title: Carlo learns about betrayal when his girlfriend leaves him for "glittery eyes"; title: Carlo speaks of hot tamales; title: Carlo Silvestrini becomes Hot Tamale Charlie; title: Hot Tamale Charlie works downtown Wilmot; title: Hot Tamale Charlie sings of a player's heartbreak; title: Hot Tamale Charlie speaks of rabbit ice; title: Part 4: Ghosts; title: Arkansas blacks; title: Jook house in burning season; title: Goblin song; title: A welder's New Year's Eve; title: Tableland at zero; title: Waking up in Baghdad; title: Terror; title: A soldier gets home; title: A Swiss vintner in the land of muscadines; title: Black and sticky; title: The cold tile blues; title: The magic of song; title: Holy ghost man; title: The mysterious bar-b-q grill of Turkey Scratch, Arkansas.