The Significance of the Frontier
Selected Poems 1966-2002
By J. Quinn Brisben
The Significance of the Frontier, Selected Poems 1966-2002. Copyright 1999, 2002 by J. Quinn Brisben. Printed in the United States of America. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. For information address J. Quinn Brisben, 784 E 100th PL, Chicago IL 60628-1688 brisben@comcast.net.
(The Significance of the Frontier was originally published by Scars Publications in 2002)
Preface
Born and Raised There
The Crack in the Map
Ancestor
Wild Mary Sudik
The Way to School, 1943
Drought, Baptisms, Progress
Failure to Learn a Simple Thing
Changes
The Significance of the Frontier
Uncle Sam
Summer Bottles
The Omission of Bestiality
Departure
Connections among the Lost
Learning from Flaws
An Image Encompasses Saint Ursula
Pecans
A Series
A Tentative Sketch of Everything
Millennial Snow
Celebrating Bloomsday
Auschwitz January, 2002
Reflections on Caillebotte
150 Days after 11 September 2001
The Pirate’s Ballade
Granddaughter
War Lessons after a Blizzard
Cinquains for Studs Terkel
Captain Marvel
A New Birth
Resurrection City
Questions of a Studious Worker
Reunion
Weather Front
Telluride: A Century of Lumpen
Fossils
East of Black Mountain
Special Collections
Parallel 49
Kabuki in Chicago
Orangerie
Sharp Tools
The Watch on the Elbe
One More Report on Nashville
Young Man with a Hat
Baseball Opera
Biloxi Beach, 1969
The Privacy of the Eye
The Hungry Madison Cabbie, 1958
Belle Starr’s Daughter
Chicago Windows at Sukothai, Thailand
Big Blue Stem Poems
Congress Kills Ergonomic Rules
Ode to Joy
Desire Flourishing
A Gift of Paper Dolls
Szymborska
Tear This Building Down
The Cicerone near Terre Haute
The Cicerone at Gettysburg
The Cicerone Crosses the Trail of Tears
The Cicerone in Cuba
The Cicerone Sees a Trashed Columbus
The Cicerone in the Triangle
The Cicerone at Khajuraho
The Cicerone at Pere Lachaise
The Cicerone at Antietam
The Cicerone with a Lady in Venice
The Cicerone at Epidaurus
The Cicerone above the Pits
The Cicerone in Cicero
The Cicerone at the Millennial Defeat
The Cicerone at the Barnes
