Forms of Prayer at the Hotel Edison: Poems by Kevin Bowen

Forms of Prayer at the Hotel Edison: Poems by Kevin Bowen

by Kevin Bowen
Forms of Prayer at the Hotel Edison: Poems by Kevin Bowen

Forms of Prayer at the Hotel Edison: Poems by Kevin Bowen

by Kevin Bowen

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Overview

These are poems of leave taking and of return, poems that record the experience of rural and urban isolation, of dislocation and violence, the histories of war and reconciliation in our century.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781880684559
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Publication date: 09/01/1998
Edition description: 1 ED
Pages: 74
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Kevin Bowen currently serves as Director of the William Joiner Center for the Study of War and Social Consequences at UMass-Boston. The Progressive magazine chose Bowen's first book, Playing Basketball with the Viet Con, as "Pick of the Year." He lives in Dorchester, MA with his wife and two children.

Table of Contents

I
At the Indochina Restaurant
Driving Home
Snapshots from LZ Julie
Learning Code: Ft. Gordon, Georgia, 1968
Fort Dix, New Jersey, February, 1968
Guard Duty, Biên Hoà, 1968
ARVNS
West of Tây Ninh
Casualties II
Sailing to Thaí Binh
Letter from the North
Phổ Hai Bà Trung
Meditation on Tuệ Tĩnh
The Sandhaulers at Huế
Bend in the River
The Poetry Garden at Sông Bé
Meditation at Từ Hiếu Pagoda

II
History Lessons
Sunday at the Minaun
Caladh Thadagh
The Galway Train
Inchemekinna
A Guest of the Nation
Scalloping: Carraroe West
In Search of Maturin
Famine Stew
A Little Fire: Mourning the Death of Mountbatten, Dublin, January 1978
A March for the Repatriation of Irish Prisoners from English Jails, Oxford 1979
Broad St. Riots
Eighty Butterfield Orchard
Because We Were Not Home
A Picture from the Island

III
Breeze
Urban Renewal
Late Word in the City of Memory: West End
Uncle
Love in the Days of the Strangler
A Granite Stairway, St. Joseph's School for Boys
Father Segadeli Says Seven O'Clock Mass at St. Joseph's
Francis
The Gypsies at St. Patrick's 
Forms of Prayer at the Hotel Edison
Roses
Buying My Brother a Suit
Kabachanik
For Myles Who Communes With Planes
The Connemara Woman
Notes


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