For the Kingdom (American Poets Continuum) [Hardcover]

Anthony Piccione (Author)

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After Napping By The Frogpond
Air
Another Morning
At Macleish's Grave
Calling Out To Sky's Mother
Cemeteries, With Two Sicilian Sayings
Communion Prayer
Daybreak, And The Cabin Still Dark
Discovering Her Face
Dozing In The Drunk's Box
Dreaming The Face
Each A Word
Evening Bath
Falling Asleep At A Faculty Meeting
Finding Hard Mountain
For My Students In Beijing
From Far Off
The Holy Land On Television
Ice Storm Heard From Bed
If Some Had Been Dreaming Of Women
In The Gathering Cold At Christmas
It Was A Silence Settling On The Cabin
James Wright Everywhere
Late Night Cable Viewing
Medicine Priest
The Night Skylab Was Falling
Nightshift, Waiting For My Wife's Return
Now In The Birthsong Of Sarah
Now Is Our Century
Now That We Know Where We Are
Old Jericho Turnpike
Patching Little Things
Poetry Reading: We Heard She Was Coming
Poking Around In The New World
The Quiet Ones
Sabbatical Report
Small Wind Prayer
Some Will Speak, Some Will Stare, Some Will Be Turned Back
Standing Still
Surrounded By Everything, We Think To Surrender
Surrounded By Woods In Middle Age
Teaching, Lord, And The Last Shall Be First
Then Stillness, Then Longing
To A Woman Undressing At A Window In 1953
Walking With My Daughters
When My Wife Is Away, Time Fills The Cabin And Nothing
With My Wife In Deepening Storm
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Product Details

• Hardcover: 80 pages
• Publisher: BOA Editions Ltd.; 1st edition (June 1, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1880238225
• ISBN-13: 978-1880238226
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.2 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,079,326 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Some notes on Anthony Piccione's Poetry, April 4, 2000

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This review is from: For the Kingdom (American Poets Continuum) (Hardcover)

At the first glance, his poems are simple. However, there is a great deal of work that lies behind this seeming simplicity. He is able to find the most essential material in our speech and uses it to achieve the clarity of vision that is almost classical. How? Why? Perhaps because he is asking us the most essential question: "What does it mean to be human?" And, he is able to find the language simple enough to deliver our answers.

I would like to share some of lines of his that I find myself remembering when in need:

"Something unnamed, grief-sweetened keeps calling us out."

"Take me, you want to say even as you are taken."

"See these hands. We raised them to touch and pray."

"I have read all night at the kitchen table. Whenever I look up, people are dying and being born all over the earth."

"We are here / to weep, to touch the living shore, to leave our bones."

"Look. Because I love you fifty miles to the north, I can lie down in still darkness and disappear, with my eyes open."

"Together now in simple nearness, we study each other. There is French wine. Her face burns. We know this place. We do not touch and do not touch."

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful American Poems, June 13, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: For the Kingdom (American Poets Continuum) (Paperback)

Piccione's poems are spare and careful, wonderfully devoid of artifice and intellectualism, grounded in the world. His voice is large and generous, extraordinarily kind to the smallest moments and emotions and beings in the world. He asks big questions and provides comfort here on the edge of the dark in language that won't let us dismiss him.