© 2018, Text by Grady Chambers

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      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

       Chambers, Grady.

       North American stadiums: poems / by Grady Chambers.

       Description: Minneapolis, Minnesota : Milkweed Editions, [2018]

       Identifiers: LCCN 2018009103 (print) | LCCN 2018003189 (ebook) | ISBN 9781571319937 (ebook) | ISBN 9781571315045 (hardcover : acid-free paper)

       Classification: LCC PS3603.H354 (print) | LCC PS3603.H354 A6 2018 (ebook) | DDC 811/.6--dc23

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       Contents

        Title Page

        Copyright

        Explaining the Resurrection in Simple Words

       I

      1  Syracuse, October

      2  The Life

      3  Another Beauty I Remember

      4  Thousand Islands

      5  Sunday Morning

      6  Far Rockaway

      7  Jackknife

      8  A Summer

       II

      1  View from Brooklyn

      2  The Window

      3  Pin

      4  Dragons

      5  The Syracuse Poem

      6  Blue Handgun

       III

      1  After Psalm 17

      2  A Story about the Moon

      3  Dispatch: Pittsburgh

      4  Picasso in Milwaukee

      5  Dispatch: Canal Zone

      6  Salt Lake

      7  Forbes Field, Pittsburgh, 1966

       IV

      1  The Leavings

      2  Calaveras

      3  Bands You Might Have Liked If You Were Still Alive

      4  Stopping the War

      5  Rainout in the Twin Cities

      6  Memorial Day

        Acknowledgments