10 Years After

A House Is Not A Motel

In my poetry class we have to write a couple of papers. This first paper is due on the 17th of February and we were given the poem Monday in class. The poem was distributed as a photocopy of the poem. This included the title of the poem but lacked the author. The instructor commented that he intended to leave out the author because he didn't want us to know who it was. Well, of course curiosity got the better of me. Thinking about the response that O'Donnell had his 'Computers, Writing and Literature' class (ENGL 3134) write about Google, I thought I would do a Google search.
I didn't have the poem in in front of me, but I remembered the title and the jist of the poem.

"Black Silk" Vest

It took a few minutes to find. After skipping over a few hits that were obviously not what I was wanting and sifting through a few possible matches, I found something. This was a page that didn't have commentary, but it did give the author of the poem. With this in hand I thought I'd check the ETSU library's catalog. Sure enough, it has the book of poetry which contains the poem in question.

Tess Gallagher's 'Amplitude : new and selected poems.' And, wouldn't you know it, it wasn't checked out.