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Автор: Dan Lechay
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Серия: Hollis Summers Poetry Prize
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      The Quarry

      The Quarry

       Dan Lechay

      OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS

      ATHENS

      Ohio University Press, Athens, Ohio 45701

      © 2003 by Dan Lechay

      Printed in the United States of America

      All rights reserved

      Ohio University Press books are printed on acid-free paper imge

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      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Lechay, Dan, 1945–

      The quarry : poems / Dan Lechay.

      p. cm.

      ISBN 0-8214-1533-6 (cloth : alk. paper) — ISBN 0-8214-1534-4 (pbk. : alk. paper)

      I. Title.

      PS 3612.E335Q37 2004

      811′.6—dc22

      2003049501

       Acknowledgments

      Several poems in this book were first published in the following magazines.

      The Grolier Poetry Prize Anthology: “Back to Nature,” “Singing Head,” “Oak Street Houses,” “South Siders”

      Agni Review: “Last Night”

      The Iowa Review: “Quarry,” “Quiet Evening; Cat; Then Rain,” “Houses by the Sea,” “Black Lab”

      Southwest Review: “In Limelight”

      The Louisville Review: “Like a Cat”

      Boulevard: “Screen,” “Lively World,” “Porifera”

      Thanks to Kathy Hall, Julie Hansen, Juliet Mattila, Jim McKean, Mary Szybist, Jan Weismiller, Jo Lechay, Eugene Lion, and Alan Shapiro. Special thanks to David Sanders, terrific editor.

       … grasping; whole, and in fragments; coming together and scattering; approaching, moving apart …

      —Heraclitus

       Contents

       i.

       In Limelight

       Last Night

       River

       Black Lab

       In the Shallows

       South Siders

       Work

       Singing Head

       Oak Street Houses

       Little Dream

       Back to Nature

       Playground

       Reading the Iliad in Homer’s Greek at the Cedar Valley Quarry

       ii.

       Screen

       A Mouth

       Out-of-the-Way Places

       Notes on an Ancient Signary

       The Dead

       Porifera

       Ghost Villanelle

       Lively World

       Like a Cat

       World Full of Animals

       The Undead

       Quiet Evening; Cat; Then Rain

       iii.

       Houses by the Sea

       Unpainted Portrait

       Coda

       In Memory of Neil C.

       Mississippi Sunday Morning

       Quarry

       Crystal Trillions

       On Fire

       i

       In Limelight

      This was the midwest’s limestone belly; here

      the black trees ascended. And it gleamed

      the color of old tusks; it held the spilth

      of continental seedbed, gastropod

      and brachiopod and sea worm and sea lily,

      and vertebrae of stone; and here one night

      of my late adolescence it made a couch

      for two recumbent humans, marble-limbed

      and languid as two figures on the lid

      of a sarcophagus.