Item Details
ISBN: 9781555976644
Description: xii, 109 pages ; 21 cm
Notes: Poems.
Contents:
- Preface / by Kim Stafford
- A story that could be true
- Fifteen
- Vocation
- Ask me
- The way it is
- A message from the wanderer
- Traveling through the dark
- Mein Kampf
- You reading this, be ready
- Security
- Thinking for Berky
- Why I am happy
- A ritual to read to each other
- Serving with Gideon
- Easter morning
- Assurance
- Our story
- The little ways that encourage good fortune
- A gesture toward an unfound Renaissance
- Saint Matthew and all
- A dedication
- Learning
- Objector
- At the un-national monument along the Canadian border
- For the unknown enemy
- At the bomb testing site
- These mornings
- Distractions
- Watching the jet planes dive
- Poetry
- The star in the hills
- Peace walk
- Explaining the big one
- Entering history
- "Shall we have that singing--"
- In the night desert
- The concealment: Ishi, the last wild Indian
- Bess
- staAmerican Gothic
- Report to Crazy Horse
- For my young friends who are afraid
- Listening
- Clash
- Our kind
- Aunt Mabel
- At the grave of my brother: bomber pilot
- A catechism
- Circle of breath
- A memorial: son Bret
- A family turn
- Ruby was her name
- With Kit, age 7, at the beach
- Passing remark
- Once in the 40s
- One home
- Prairie town
- Ceremony
- The farm on the Great Plains
- One evening
- In the Oregon country
- At the Klamath berry festival
- Looking for gold
- An Oregon message
- Earth dweller
- Spirit of place: great blue heron
- The fish counter at Bonneville
- Witness
- Bi-focal
- Across Kansas
- Malheur before dawn
- Starting with little things
- Mr. Conscience
- The well rising
- Climbing along the river
- Roll call
- Things I learned last week
- Ode to garlic
- Reading with little sister: a recollection
- Just thinking
- Any morning
- First grade
- Freedom
- When I met my muse
- You and art
- The animal that drank up sound
- Keeping a journal
- Indian caves in the dry country
- Burning a book
- Growing up
- A farewell, age ten
- Artist, come home
- An archival print
- Why I am a poet
- Run before dawn
- The last class
- Looking across the river
- Father and son
- Choosing a dog
- "Are you Mr. William Stafford?"
- Smoke.
LCCN: 2013946920
Control Number: 975079
Publisher: Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, 2014.Subjects: Poetry.
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