Music from Apartment 8: New and Selected Poems

by John Stone

Overview

Poet and cardiologist John Stone is a man of many voices. A gifted verse maker, he exhibits in his writing the qualities of a compassionate physician, a musician, linguist, naturalist, and down-to-earth yet whimsical grandfather, son, husband, and brother. Selections from four previous books together with twenty-two new works compose this exquisite volume, a “best of the best” sampling from a beloved poet.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780807165133
Publisher:	Louisiana State University Press
Publication date:	04/01/2004
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	176
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

John Stone is the author of the poetry volumes The Smell of Matches, In All This Rain, Renaming the Streets, and Where Water Begins; and the essay collection In the Country of Hearts: Journeys in the Art of Medicine. He is a coeditor of On Doctoring, an anthology of literature and medicine that since 1991 has been presented to every student entering a U.S. medical school as a gift from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Now professor of medicine (cardiology) emeritus at Emory University School of Medicine, he was for nineteen years director of admissions and associate dean at the school.

Table of Contents

	New Poems
	Serenity Gardens
	Tuesday at the Assisted Care Home	5
	Frances	7
	Visitation	8
	Noon, Thursday	9
	Patriot at the Pianoforte	10
	After Surgery	13
	Processional: A Follow-Up	16
	Mosaics: Reflections from the middle east
	Baalbek	19
	Jerash: Potsherds	20
	Spiritual	21
	Back through Time	22
	Mount Sinai: Chasing the Sun	23
	Caduceus	25
	In Petra	27
	Before Sleep	28
	Jerusalem: Bedtime	29
	Hydra: Greece	30
	First Night Back in Atlanta	31
	Distances
	Looking for the Pal Theater	35
	South Sycamore: The Horse	38
	Halloween Impromptu	40
	Imagine with Me Now the Final Room	41
	The Tuileries	42
	The Smell of Matches (1972)
	Cadaver	47
	To a Fourteen-Year-Old Girl in Labor and Delivery	48
	Love Poem for a Son	49
	A Thirty-Four-Year-Old Substitutes as Goalie in Little League Soccer Practice	50
	Talking to the Family	51
	Autopsy in the Form of an Elegy	52
	Lines on a Misread Word	53
	The Bottle	54
	Getting to Sleep in New Jersey	55
	Being There	56
	Song for Tossing a Son	57
	da capo	58
	Coming Home	59
	In All This Rain (1980)
	He Makes a House Call	63
	Love Poem at a Particular Breakfast for No Particular Woman	65
	Losing a Voice in Summer	66
	Love Poem Entirely of Cliches	67
	A Cliche Poem for Your Leaving	68
	Death	69
	Double-Header	70
	The Girl in the Hall	72
	Helping with the Math Homework	74
	Lessons in the Subjunctive	75
	One Evening	76
	Bringing Her Home	77
	Looking Down into a Ditch	78
	How I'd Have It	79
	Building the Steps	80
	Whittling: The Last Class	81
	The Truck	83
	Answering the Phone	85
	Fugue	86
	In All This Rain	87
	Renaming the Streets (1985)
	Early Sunday Morning	91
	Rosemary	93
	January: A Flight of Birds	96
	Forecast	97
	She in February	98
	You Round the Bend	99
	The Eclipse	100
	Three for the Mona Lisa	101
	Gaudeamus Igitur: A Valediction	102
	The Pigeon Sonnets
	Homing Pigeon I	106
	Homing Pigeon II	107
	Homing Pigeon III	108
	The (Messenger) Pigeon	109
	Cooing in University College Quad The Lover-Pigeon Wakes Him Up at 5 A.M.	110
	A Word from the Teacher	111
	November	114
	December	116
	The Bass	117
	Where Water Begins (1998)
	Where Water Begins	121
	Poem on an Accidental Xerox of Her Hand	124
	October	125
	Next Door	126
	Holiday	127
	The Good-bye, Good-Morning, Hello Poem	129
	This Kind of Thing Doesn't Happen Often and When It Does You Should Pay Attention	133
	He Attends Exercise Class--Once	134
	After the Concert: A Confession	135
	Oxford Poems
	5 A.M., Sleepless in Merton Street	136
	Back to Oxford	138
	The Forest Fire	143
	from The Lu Poems
	Doorway	145
	Through the Window of the Cabin	146
	Letter in the Form of a Poem	147
	Talking with the Mockingbird	148
	Elegy and Affirmation	150
	Walking the Dog on the Night Before He Is to Be Fixed	151
	Canticles of Time	152
	Memory	156
	Transplant	157
	While Watching His Own Echocardiogram, He Welcomes In the New Year	158
	Singing from the West Coast	159