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The land we dreamed : poems /

Weaving together universal themes of family, geography, and death with images of America's frontier landscape, former Kentucky Poet Laureate Joe Survant has been lauded for his ability to capture the spirit of the land and its people. Kliatt magazine has praised his work, stating, ""S...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Survant, Joe, 1942- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, [2014]
Colección:Kentucky voices.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Front Cover; Frontispiece; TItle Page; Copyright Page; Epigraph; Contents; Preface; Part I. Hunters; The First Hunters; The Turtle Clan; Part II. Coureurs des Bois: 1638; Noel Chabanel; Father Jerome Clermont; Noel; Among the Illinois; Fr. Jerome; Noel, Cognito; Fr. Jerome Hears of the Shawnee; Winter among the Mystassins; Noel; Memento Mei; Noel, Seul; La Belle Riviere; What He Found; Part III. Ken-ta-tha; Epigraph; On the Ohio; Fort Pitt; Nimwha; Kyashuta to George Washington upon Meeting Him along the Ohio, 1770; Beniwerica; Bonah; The Prophet; Part IV. Long Hunter: Kan-ta-ke, 1755-1756.
  • Map-First paths into KentuckyBeyond the Mountains; turrabel cainbrakes; Bear; Ambush; Alone; Winter Dream; Fire; Wintering; Falling Asleep while Hunting; Boustrophedon; Absence; OWl; Footprints; The Chain; Bread; Weariness; Question; Big Bone Lick; Part V. Voices from the Great Migration: 1750-1792; Dr. Thomas Walker; Mary Ingles; The feeling infinite; Henry Lee; Down the Ohio: Indian Summer, 1778; Through the Gap; Ella Mulligan; Mary Hite; On Dick's River; Uriah Boyd; Clinch River Ford; Defeated Camp; Ada Milbank; First Frost; Autumn Snakes; Gathering Browse in Winter; The hard winter.
  • Mingo BottomPart VI. A Codicil; Coal; Acknowledgments; Index of First Lines; Series page.