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Carruth, Hayden, 1921-2008, author.

Scrambled eggs & whiskey : poems, 1991-1995 / Hayden Carruth.

Port Townsend, Wash. : Copper Canyon Press, 1996.

©1996

[5],101, [9] pages ; 24 cm

In The Last Poem in the World, he writes: "Would I write it if I could? / Bet your glitzy ass I would." By the author of Selected Essays & Reviews.

Poetry.

Poetry.

Copper Canyon Press, publisher.

Scrambled eggs and whiskey

Author's name appears at head of title.

National Book Award, 1996

Five-thirty AM -- Flying into St. Louis -- Solemnization -- Wife poem -- The hyacinth garden in Brooklyn -- Another -- The soft time of the year -- Birthday cake -- Quality of wine -- Resorts -- California -- A summer with Tu Fu -- Auburn poem -- August 1945 -- Snow storm -- Testament -- Endnote -- Folk song : on the road again -- Forty-five -- The last poem in the world -- Homage to Edwin Muir -- April clean up -- I I I -- In pharaoh's tomb -- Bennington poem -- Alteration -- Ecstasy -- February morning -- The woodcut on the cover of Robert Frost's Complete Poems -- Particularity -- Rubaiyat -- Saturday at the border -- Surrealism -- The camps -- Swept -- The best the most -- The brook -- The chain -- Isabel's garden May 14 -- Lilac time -- The curtain -- Window blind -- Mort aux Belges -- Pittsburgh -- Overlooking Pittsburgh -- Faxes to William -- Good old word blues -- Graves -- Waterloo -- What to do -- Notes on poverty -- Song : now that she is here -- The beat -- In the long hall -- The woods -- This morning -- Thorntrees -- In Georgetown -- Prepare -- Little citizen little survivor -- Scrambled eggs and whiskey.

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