| | Theory of Twilight (Modern & Contemporary Poetry of the American West) |  | Author: Gary Short
Creator: Tom Trusky
Publisher: Ahsahta Press
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 1609261
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 60
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.8 x 0.2
ISBN: 0916272583
EAN: 9780916272586
ASIN: 0916272583
Publication Date: March 1994
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Book Description
In his collection Theory of Twilight, Gary Short finds a quiet spirituality in everyday experiences, childhood memories, and natural occurrences. In poems that range in inspiration from a meditation by Basho to the stark landscapes and highways of Nevada, readers travel with Short down a highway where one encounters a schoolyard of students exercising ("scissoring into an X/ then closing to an I") or brothers playing catch with a football ("the space between us/ filling with darkness"); where the receding glow of red taillights evokes the memory of a father smoking cigarettes in the dark, waiting for his son to come home. In the book's title poem "Theory of Twilight," a narrative of how a family comes together at the death of the speaker's brother, Short's description of the casketed body is plain-spoken and moving: "His father had touched his eyes closed, mothered / the shock of black hair from his forehead / and made into prayer, finger by finger / the hands."
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