Rick Campbell's journey from the banks of the Ohio to the beaches of Florida is a rhapsody, and the music he makes in ordering his world takes us with him, to the headwaters of a new river.Setting the World in Order is the tenth winner of the Walt McDonald First-Book Prize in Poetry, selected by Robert Fink of Hardin-Simmons University, editor of the Walt McDonald First-Book Series.

Zusammenfassung
Features poems that leave some sweet dirt under your fingernails proof of hard, honest work when the longing of small-town America is not enough. This title eloquently plots our geographically impossible trajectories.

Inhalt

Legend The Poem in the River Ohio River Sunday Gasoline The Wall Late November, the Coming of Winter at State Street Elementary School Creeley Cursing in Church The Spring in Tevebaugh Hollow Caterpillars The Candles at Margaret Mary Catholic Church How the Streets in Front of Kaufmann's Department Store Tell Me I Am Home Setting Pins, 1966 The History of Steel Morrison's, 1968 Hanging Tobacco Seed Harvest, Gilroy, California For the Old Men at the Grindstone Factory Body Song, Vietnam Harmonica Lesson Well Done Discourse Seashell Salesman Meditation on Today's Limit of Pleasure Pensacola Street Sunrise Letter to Kathy from a Frigate at Sea To Jennifer, Thinking of Li Po The Geography of Desire Leaving Home, Pittsburgh 1966 Juno Beach and the Sea Turtle Horseshoe Crabs Mating at Carrabelle Beach Orange Nights, Cold Stars Fishing the Encampment The Breathers, St. Mark's Lighthouse Confluence Even the Ohio Can Change Setting the World in Order Bamboo A Walk in the Woods On Missing the First Step on the Moon Angels Flying You Home The Drowned Son On the Water of My Mistakes Proving Lake Okeechobee Trying to Get Pregnant, Flying to Iowa Long Distance Call 3/1995 A Thousand Miles from Della Rose