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University of Iowa Press, Iowa City 52242 Copyright (c) 1994 by John Wood All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America
Design by Richard Hendel
No part of this book may be reproduced or used in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, without permission in writing from the publisher.
Printed on acid-free paper
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Wood, John, 1947 In primary light: poems / by John Wood. p. cm. ISBN 0-87745-450-7 (paper) I. Title. PS3573.0594615 1994 93-46325 813'.54-dc20 CIP
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Contents
The Bitter Part of Heaven
1
The Perils of Beauty
3
The Comeback of Yma Sumac
5
Cancer Talkers
7
Upon Reading in the Newspaper That a Man in Kentucky Had Cut Off His Hand and His Foot with Pocketknives and Then Gouged Out an Eye in Order That He Might Go to Heaven
9
On a Photograph I Found of Two Young Factory Workers Standing beside a Piece of Heavy Machinery and Inscribed on the Reverse "Sacred to the Memory of Friendship"
11
The Correct Answers
13
The Canticle of End-Times
15
The Kali Yuga
16
The Wastes of Resurrection
18
Opie and the Apples
19
Jam
21
How I Tried to Explain the Certainties of Faith and Petrunkevitch's Famous Essay on the Wasp and the Tarantula to a Pentecostal Student Worried about My Soul
23
About Their Father's Business
25
Expulsions
29
Baptisms
32
Conversions
34
Theological Meditation
36
Silage
38
Page viii
Shitheads
40
Reflections on the Progress of the Western Intellectual Tradition from Thales to Crick and Watson
42
Hunting for a New Chairman; Thinking about Giotto
44
Locomotion and Starlight
45
Dreams of Standing
47
The Myths of Meanness
49
Bees
51
Remembering My Father Riding
53
Elegiac Stanza on a Photograph of Ethel Rosenberg in Her Kitchen
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