Old Rags and Iron

New and Selected Poems

R. F. McEwen (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

144 Seiten

2025
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
978-1-4962-4189-4 (ISBN)

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Old Rags and Iron is a collection of narrative poems about the life experiences of working-class people with whom the author, R. F. McEwen, is not only acquainted but whose lives he has shared. McEwen supplemented his income as a teacher while working as a professional logger and tree trimmer, and he writes with great love and respect for blue-collar families.

Set primarily in the back-of-the-yard neighborhood of South Side Chicago, where McEwen grew up, as well as Pine Ridge, South Dakota, western Nebraska, Ireland, and elsewhere, the poems celebrate many voices and stories. Utilizing tree-trimming as a central metaphor, these poems of blank verse fictions reverberate like truth.

R. F. McEwen was born in Chicago, Illinois. Since 1962 he has been a professional logger and tree trimmer, and he has taught English in Chadron, Nebraska, since 1972. McEwen is the author of several books, most recently The Big Sandy, Bill’s Boys and Other Poems, and And There’s Been Talk . . .

Acknowledgments
Introduction by Ted Kooser
"Old Rags and Iron" & Other Narratives
Old Rags and Iron
Cotton Bishop’s Good Sleep
A Round on Jackson’s Trace
A Strong Wind Clear and Keen
Ash Hollow
Bill Richard’s Boy
Hammer Ring
John Hanks’s Blue Hound
Fragment from a Larger Poem
Crossing
Dad’s Way
Dust to Dust
High Hawk: Eugene Pierce, His Passing (1998–2017)
In the Pines
Incident at the Bus Stop
Kadokah
Lion’s Head: Cass County, Nebraska, 1953
Lost Tracks at Sorley’s Creek
Moody Boatright’s “Dead Dad Ditty”
Nick’s Night
On the Wing
Parrot Pal
Second Shift at Tilden Steel
Snow Man
Spelling Wilson James: Blue Island, Illinois, 1967
The Honcho River and Its Run
The Wind along the Crest
Well-Found at Neilly’s Creek
The Rising of Rock Fowler Creek
George Corchran’s Later Blow
Tree Trimmer’s Paradise
To Jim D. Manning, Tree Man: Who Died in His Tree June 1983
Late October: Richardson and Early Storms
Bill Ward’s Winter Break
Absent Crew
John Early Poems
Their Last Lad’s Fishing
Early Rising
John Early Remembers: The Moment of His Wife’s Death
Sonnet for the Lost and Found
On Looking Back
John Early Wonders, Waiting Dawn
White River Poems
Tracks Don’t Lie
Panaderia
The Lessoning
Buried Deep at Fast Horse Creek
Aunt Rose in Great Demand
Lean Jack MacBride: A Fragment
From Prairie Schooner, 1991–2005
Tuckered In, Tuckered Out
Wings
Snow Gazer
Quare Garden at the Dry End of the State
Gill Bronsen’s Dream
Irish Poems
Back to Old Mhaigh Eo
The Far Side of Red Bay
Small Favors
For Agnes Maddy Conlin (1892–1953): On the Occasion of Her Funeral
Her Way with Words, with Life: Aileen O’Lyne (1993–2018)
Double Shift

Erscheinungsdatum	23.01.2025
Reihe/Serie	Ted Kooser Contemporary Poetry
Einführung	Ted Kooser
Verlagsort	Lincoln
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
ISBN-10	1-4962-4189-4 / 1496241894
ISBN-13	978-1-4962-4189-4 / 9781496241894
Zustand	Neuware