Swallowing the Soap: New and Selected PoemsThis volume, the first to span the forty-year career of Nebraska state poet William Kloefkorn, brings together the best-known and most beloved poems by one of the most important Midwestern poets of the last half century. Collecting work from limited editions and hard-to-find books, along with Kloefkorn's most anthologized poems, Swallowing the Soap is an indispensable one-volume compendium of the work of a major American poet. |
Contents
| 1 | |
Selected Poems from Alvin Turner as Farmer | 48 |
From Uncertain the Final Run to Winter | 61 |
Selected Poems from loony | 70 |
Selected Poems from ludi jr | 89 |
From Stocker | 111 |
From Cottonwood County | 117 |
Selected Poems from Leaving Town | 127 |
Looking for Halleys Comet | 239 |
Taking the Test | 240 |
The Door | 242 |
Driving Back to Kansas to Watch a Wedding | 243 |
Independent | 244 |
Cave | 246 |
Drinking the Tin Cup Dry | 249 |
From Dragging Sand Creek for Minnows | 251 |
From Not Such a Bad Place to Be | 138 |
From Let the Dance Begin | 146 |
Selected Poems from Honeymoon | 149 |
Selected Poems from Platte Valley Homestead | 163 |
Selected Poems from Houses and Beyond | 173 |
From Collecting for the Wichita Beacon | 191 |
From A Life Like Mine | 205 |
From Where the Visible Sun Is | 215 |
From Drinking the Tin Cup Dry | 231 |
A Red Ryder BBGun for Christmas | 232 |
George Eat Old Gray Rat at Pappys House Yesterday | 233 |
At Shannons Creek Early August | 234 |
Drinking with My Father | 236 |
Firstborn | 237 |
Walking to the Hinky Dinky with my Grandson Almost 4 | 238 |
From Going Out Coming Back | 266 |
From Burning the Hymnal | 277 |
New and Selected Poems | 291 |
From Covenants | 303 |
From Welcome to Carlos | 318 |
From Loup River Psalter | 338 |
On the Trail with Lewis Clark | 353 |
From Fielding Imaginary Grounders | 369 |
From Sunrise Dayglow Sunset Moon | 384 |
From Walking the Campus | 404 |
From Still Life Moving | 411 |
From Out of Attica | 420 |
From In a House Made of Time | 438 |
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