Research Catalog

Title

• Sudden loss of dignity / Gary Soto.

Author

Soto, Gary

Publication

Nacogdoches, Tex. : Stephen F. Austin University Press ; [College Station, Tex.] : Distributed by Texas A & M University Consortium, c2013.

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Details

Description

90 p.; 22 cm.

Subjects

• Poetry
• Aging > Poetry

Genre/Form

Poetry

Note

• "National Book Award Finalist"--Cover.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

A changed man -- Juggling a galaxy of fruit -- A Saturday project -- On schedule -- Blemish -- To keep going -- Body parts -- The wrong answers -- Dr. Freud, please -- Blame -- First impressions -- Biblical times -- Eyesight at fifty-nine -- Music & dance -- An afternoon at the river -- Ambition -- Deer from the hill -- Afternoon in October -- Talking to myself -- Tears & plastic -- The married life of one couple we know -- No expectations -- Response time for the old gent -- Today's mail -- Before my doctor's appointment -- The year is 2020 -- Millennium bridge -- One day less -- Footpath near Clare, England -- The gopher -- Superhuman talents -- Scientific reading -- Advice -- An odd moment -- Hero worship -- Cemetery outside Dedham, England -- Tax audit nostalgia -- The television star now bankrupt -- Eternity at Zak's carwash -- Graffiti in a regional park -- Global warming -- Family gathering -- All better now -- The integrative action of the nervous system -- On my mother's front lawn -- Thanksgiving dinner -- A Catholic education -- Going natural -- An uncle in assisted living -- Campesino -- Christmas in east Los Angeles -- Bread & butter -- What we might expect -- What did you expect?

ISBN

• 1622880056
• 9781622880058

OCLC

822533011

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library