Music appreciation

158 Pages·1994·0.33 MB·English

by  Floyd Skloot

Music Appreciation Contemporary Poetry
title:
Series (Orlando, Fla.)
author: Skloot, Floyd.
publisher: University Press of Florida
isbn10 | asin: 0813013135
print isbn13: 9780813013138
ebook isbn13: 9780813020396
language: English
subject
publication date: 1994
lcc: PS3569.K577M87 1994eb
ddc: 811/.54
subject:
Music Appreciation
University of Central Florida Contetemporary Poetry Series
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Music Appreciation
Floyd Skloot
University Press of Florida
Gainesville / Tallahassee / Tampa / Boca Raton
Pensacola / Orlando / Miami / Jacksonville
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Copyright 1994 by the Board of Regents of the State of Florida
Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper
All rights reserved
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Skloot, Floyd. Music appreciation / Floyd Skloot.
p. cm. (University of Central Florida contemporary
poetry series)
ISBN 0-8130-1313-5 (cloth).ISBN 0-8130-1314-3 (pbk.)
I. Title. II. Series: Contemporary poetry series (Orlando, Fla.)
PS3569.K577M87 1994 94-26085
811´.54dc20
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For my children
Matthew and Rebecca
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments xi
I. The Fury
Living Room 3
Chicken Market 4
Rhapsody in Calico (1925) 6
The Sunday Chef 8
The Price Is Right 9
Beat the Clock 10
Morning Shadows 12
Smoke 14
Ruby Foo's 15
Dinnertime 17
Twilight Time 18
The Everiv Brothers 20
The Clues 21
Still Life Without Father 22
Widow's Morning 23
Swimmer 26
The Album 28
The Fury 29
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II. A New Symmetry
Wild Light 35
Mother and Child 37
Giftsong 39
Hazards 41
My Daughter Considers Her Body 42
A Working Marriage 43
Kaleidoscope 45
Old Stories 50
September Fruit 52
The Stagger 53
The Bow 54
In the Coast Range 56
Surprise Valley 57
You Asked for It 59
Sapphire Fandango 60
III. The Virus
Brain Scan 65
Diagnostic Imaging 66
Music Appreciation 67
Solstice 68
Sonatina for Surf and Sandpiper 69
A Softer Place 70
The View 71
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The Virus 73
Home Remedies 75
Saying What Needs To Be Said 81
IV. Search
Background Work 85
Shoreline Life 87
The Resort 89
New England Nights 91
Paganini and the Powers of Darkness 93
The Velvet Gentleman 95
Blanche Morton 96
Melodies 98
The Mill 100
Voices of the Sea 101
Search 103
The Pure Tongue 104