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Hudgins, Andrew.

Babylon in a jar : new poems / Andrew Hudgins.

Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1998.

72 pages ; 22 cm

The poems in BABYLON IN A JAR extend the forceful explorations that Andrew Hudgins began with SAINTS AND STRANGERS, his first book and a runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize in 1985. In this volume Hudgins's poems revel in the "either/or" in life, reducing specific conflicts to the old, all-encompassing one between order and disorder.

American poetry.

Poetry.

The chinaberry -- After muscling through sharp greenery -- Poem ("Blunt daffodil spikes") -- Ashes ("My left hand joggled Johnny's arms") -- In the red seats -- Edge -- Dragonfly -- Night class -- One threw a dirt clod and it ran -- Signs of a change in weather -- Wind -- Supper -- The daffodils erupt in clumps -- We were simply talking -- Heaven -- Elegy for the bees -- Bodies of water -- Babylon in a jar -- Catching breath -- Plunge -- How to stop -- Ashes ("Bill gripped the can in both hands") -- In Alesia -- Rain -- Purple -- Ball -- These privileges doth the wolf hold to this hour -- Hail -- Goat god -- Plant two seeds -- Keys -- Hammer and scourge -- When the weak lamb dies -- Tools : an ode -- The bottle tree -- Why stop? -- The hanging gardens -- Stump.

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