Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Night Train to Memphis

Night Train to Memphis

Tillinghast, Richard

Paperback

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $18.00

ISBN10: 1945680792
ISBN13: 9781945680793
Publisher: White Pine Press (NY)
Published: May 27 2025
Pages: 102
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.20 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
To see inside, was Tillinghast's succinct response to the question, Why do you write? This short answer holds the key to his unstinting vitality, in poetry: curiosity, observation, and reflection.

Night Train to Memphis addresses several recurring concerns. A sense of mortality runs throughout, including the title poem and the last poem in the book, Canzona di Ringraziamento, a song of gratitude, which is the title of one of the movements of Beethoven's string quartet in A minor, opus 132. The poem concludes: Give thanks / for this music that says no matter what, / we're not done yet, suggesting that though Tillinghast is intensely aware of his approaching mortality and is engaged in summing up and coming to terms with many of the events in his life, Night Train to Memphis may very well not be the last we'll hear from him. At an age when many of the writers of his generation have gone silent and are resting on their laurels, this poet is still active and vibrant, writing at the height of his powers.

Also from

Tillinghast, Richard

View All

Also in

General Poetry

View All