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    Turnings
    Turnings
    Turnings
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    Turnings

    By Ernest Yates

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    This is Ernest Yatess ninth volume of poems, and the sixth volume in an ongoing cycle based on his wanderings through the streets of Philadelphia. Yatess turns through city streets recall the wilderness wanderings of Bash in 17th-century Japan, and especially the wanderings of the rivers and mountains poets of the Tang and pre-Tang dynasties of China. Receptive to his terrain as they were to theirs, Yates relies on syncopated rhythms, fragmentation, and abrupt rhetorical turns to capture his responses to that terrain. A portrait of Philadelphia emerges?its diverse citizenry, streetscape, and history, as these are revealed in phenomena of the streets themselves.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris US
    Release dateApr 27, 2016
    ISBN9781514472866
    Turnings
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    Ernest Yates

    Born in Ancon, Panama, and raised in New Orleans, Ernest Yates obtained a doctorate in English from the University of Pennsylvania. He has lived and worked in the Philadelphia area for fifty years. Mr. Yates has published poetry in dozens of literary magazines and journals, and has won the Grand Prize of the Pennsylvania Poetry Society, among other poetry awards. For further information, please consult Mr. Yates’s website? ernestyates.com

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      Book preview

      Turnings - Ernest Yates

      Copyright © 2016 by Ernest Yates.

      Library of Congress Control Number:     2016903749

      ISBN:               Hardcover         978-1-5144-7288-0

                               Softcover           978-1-5144-7287-3

                               eBook                978-1-5144-7286-6

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from

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      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Thinkstock are models, and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

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      Print information available on the last page.

      Rev. date: 04/26/2016

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      Contents

      Among Common Things and Fine

      Short Block between Bodine and 3rd

      In this Fine Precinct

      Composition in Smoke #174 (Reclining Seat in the Theater)

      Feasting on Whatever

      2nd Street Brou-ha-ha

      Corner of 7th

      Near the Wall of the Interstate

      Stasis

      Witness

      Sills

      Composition in Smoke #24 (Glitter)

      Note to Posterity

      A Pause in the Walk

      Composition in Smoke #214 (Microcosm)

      Million Dollar Shoes

      Dangerous Journey

      Blues for Philly Joe

      Tottering through Paradise

      Spill Control Products

      September Neighborhood

      Atman

      Composition in Smoke #79 (Destination)

      Short of Breath

      Materials

      Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory

      Wind in an Alley

      Riverbank

      Funny Questions

      Fall:  A Chance Meeting

      You Know Times Have Turned Bad

      Out of Nowhere

      Two Parked Cars

      Composition in Smoke #106 (Response to Interrogation, ⁶th and Brown)

      Thus I Have Seen

      Puzzle Pieces

      Composition in Smoke #165 (Loading Dock on Allen Street)

      Spring, upon Reaching Market Street

      Sweet Voice

      Crossing the Bridge:  Four Fragments

      Necklace

      A Half Block Later

      Happy Hour, MCFADDEN’S

      Plywood Sublimity

      Fine Day

      Composition in Smoke #54 (Reasons)

      One Car

      The Case

      2nd Street Charge

      Precarious

      Meditation near TRANE APPLIANCE SERVICE CO.

      Composition in Smoke #209 (Scarecrow on ²nd Street)

      Cathedral Tune

      Misunderstandings

      ALL RIGHT PARKING

      Brand New

      Near Christ Church

      Composition in Smoke #246 (Gargantuan)

      Beyond the Pale

      Just the Facts

      Gray Sponge

      Sometimes Rock, Sometimes Swing

      Perennial

      Brick Wall with Landing, March, in the Rain

      Iron Stanchions

      After a Fence

      Composition in Smoke #212 (320 North Water Street)

      Wooden Crates

      A Council of Sages:  2nd and Brown

      2nd Street Refrain

      Composition in Smoke #134 (A Reason for Paranoia)

      What Love

      Composition in Smoke #267 (315 Market Street)

      Circulars

      To Jacqueline

      Turnings

      AMONG COMMON THINGS AND FINE

      Fairmount Avenue’s on display

      where CENTRAL AUTO BODY stands

      beside CHIAMICELLO’S pizza restaurant.

      Three garages

      break up the brick front

      of the two-story weatherworn

      CENTRAL AUTO BODY,

      all three closed by galvanized metal shutters.

      Red-letter signs

      announce AUTO DETAILING,

      CAR WASH,

      INSURANCE ESTIMATES and CLAIM SERVICE.

      An unworthy spectacle, we might say . . .

      but the drama here’s not less because

      it’s not a majestic vista of mountains

      or a portrait of delicate and refined whatnot.

      The joy of weddings or tears of the tragic

      are as common on Fairmount

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