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Carruth, Hayden, 1921-2008.

Doctor Jazz / Hayden Carruth.

Port Townsend, Wash. : Copper Canyon Press, ©2001.

xii, 135 pages ; 24 cm

In this newest book of poems -- the first since his 1996 National Book Award -- Carruth confronts the threadbare memories and the fading winter view of old age. From the bleakest circumstances -- the death of his daughter, physical and mental pain, poverty -- Carruth defiantly reclaims dignity and beauty. His poetry is at once classical and modern. With the spit and bop of a great jazzman playing all the right notes, Carruth lives his music, finding the perfect low tones of terrible loss, the highs of family and friendship. Yet he is also the wise old sage of classical Greece, warning, riddling, giving generous counsel and insight.

Carruth, Hayden, 1921-2008.

Poetry.

Dr. Jazz

First Scrapbook -- The Half-Acre of Millet -- In Pharaoh's Tomb -- Old Song for the Bo -- Burial Rites -- Because I Am -- Agenda at 74 -- Old Man's Sleep -- Shooting Rats -- Tartar -- At Seventy-five: Rereading an Old Book -- Coffee -- Cold Coffee -- Compleynte -- Economics -- Home Pome -- Nana -- New Paragraph -- Old Man Succumbing to Retrospection -- Political Considerations -- Stabat Mater -- Stink -- Stones Again -- The Heron -- The Sound -- Martha -- Dearest M- -- The Afterlife -- Remembering Matches -- Remembering Fucking -- Time and the Cherry Tree -- Letter to Sam Hamill I -- Letter to Sam Hamill II -- Cats -- Psychotropics -- Letter to Stephen Dobyns I -- Letter to Stephen Dobyns II -- Faxes -- Faxes to William -- Basho -- While Reading Basho -- Second Scrapbook -- The Fantastic Names of Jazz -- Big Jim -- End of Winter -- Her Song -- Letter to Denise -- Literary Note -- Memory -- My Dear Odysseus -- No-men-cla-ture -- The Physics and Metaphysics of the Partial Plate -- Senility -- Something for the Trade -- Somewhere -- The Cruel -- The New Quarry -- Then -- Time, Place, and Parenthood -- To a Friend Who Is Incommunicado -- To My Younger Friends -- Turning Back the Clocks.

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