A map of the night poems /
David Wagoners wide-ranging poetry buzzes and swells with life. Woods, streams, and fields fascinate him--he happily admits his devotion to Thoreau--but so do people and their habits, dear friends and family, the odd poet, and strangers who become even stranger when looked at closely. In this new co...
| Основен автор: | Wagoner, David. |
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| Формат: | Електронен |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
℗♭2008.
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| Серия: |
Illinois poetry series.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=569820 |
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Print version::
Map of the Night. |
Съдържание:
- ""Front cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Table of Contents""; ""1""; ""My Mother's Poem""; ""The First Movie""; ""The Other House""; ""My Snake""; ""The Fan Dance""; ""Whistler's Mother""; ""The Red Hat""; ""The First Tough""; ""Elegy for a Safety Man""; ""How Johnny Nolan Rescued Me""; ""Passing the Road Gang""; ""Curtsy""; ""Talk""; ""Crane Fly""; ""Homework in Social Studies""; ""Castle""; ""My Father's Dance""; ""2""; ""The Invitation""; ""What Do I Know?""; ""A Lesson from a Student""; ""An Assignment for Student Playwrights""; ""In the Green Room""
- ""The Heaven of Actors""""A Visitor Calls on Joseph Conrad""; ""Catfish""; ""Mr. Bones""; ""On Being Asked by an Assistant to the Governor of the State of Washington for an Appropriate Quotation from a Native American to Conclude an Inaugural Speech""; ""An Assignment for Senior Citizens""; ""Trying to Write a Poem While the Couple in the Apartment Overhead Make Love""; ""The Moth""; ""3""; ""In Youngs Creek""; ""Stopping along the Way""; ""Blind Instinct""; ""That Bird""; ""Meadowlark""; ""A Pastoral Elegy for a Pasture""; ""Watching a Boa Constrictor Yawn""; ""The Escaped Gorilla""
- ""Judging a Hog""""Thoreau and the Mud Turtle""; ""The Elephant's Graveyard""; ""Falling Behind""; ""The Hunters""; ""For the Man Who Taught Tricks to Owls""; ""On a Glass of Ale under a Reading Lamp""; ""4""; ""Owning a Creek""; ""Up against the Sea""; ""The Right Way""; ""On an Island""; ""Rescue""; ""Upstream""; ""Letting the Grass Grow under Your Feet""; ""Cemetery Grass""; ""The Heart of the Forest""; ""5""; ""Free Fall""; ""The Presumption of Death""; ""For an Old Woman at the Gate""; ""Being Taken for a Ride""; ""The Driver""; ""The Follower""; ""At the Scene of Another Crime""
- ""Stakeout""""Changing Rooms""; ""In the Dark Room""; ""6""; ""What the Houses Were Like Then""; ""Man Overboard""; ""Moving through Smoke""; ""Unarmed Combat""; ""Attention""; ""At Ease""; ""Under Fire""; ""Night Reconnaissance""; ""The Stand-up Cell""; ""What the Stones Say""; ""On First Looking through the Wrong End of a Telescope""; ""The Center of Gravity""; ""An Old Man Sitting Down""; ""An Old Man Stacking Firewood""; ""The Old Men""; ""The Hero""; ""7""; ""The Eve of the Festival of Venus""; ""8""; ""Between Neighbors""; ""On Deck""; ""Fighting the Blizzard""
- ""What Billy Graham Said to Me at the Fair""""In the Emergency Room""; ""Weeds""; ""An Informal Elegy for Neckties""; ""Looking Respectable""; ""Doing Six Impossible Things before Breakfast""; ""What to Do All Day""; ""Thoreau and the Quagmire""; ""At the Deep End of the Public Pool""; ""In the Graveyard of Major Appliances""; ""The Solution to Yesterday's Puzzle""; ""Knots""; ""Cell Division""; ""A Snap Quiz in Body Language""; ""For a Man Who Wrote Cunt on a Motel Bathroom Mirror""; ""Night Song from the Apartment Below""; ""Desire""; ""The Spider's Eye""; ""The Day I Believed in God""