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When we were birds : poems /

In When We Were Birds, Joe Wilkins wrestles his attention away from the griefs, deprivations, and high prairies of his Montana childhood and turns toward "the bean-rusted fields and gutted factories of the Midwest," toward ordinary injustice and everyday sadness, toward the imminent birth...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wilkins, Joe (Autor)
Formato: Documento de Gobierno Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Fayetteville : The University of Arkansas Press, 2016.
Colección:Miller Williams poetry series
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Series Editor's Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • My Son Asks for the Story about When We Were Birds
  • I
  • Eat Stone and Go On
  • Note to My Unborn Son concerning Quickening
  • Ragged Point Road
  • An Ode for Leaving the Place You Call Home
  • Leviathan
  • The Day We Finish Painting the Bedroom, My Wife's Father E-mails Us His Suicide Note
  • Note to My Son concerning Our First Birthing Class
  • Complaint with the Turning of the Season & Shined Shoes
  • Drought
  • The Gospel according to Kelly, Night Shift Manager, Forest City Fuel & Foods
  • II
  • Note to My Unborn Son concerning Manufacturing Economics and Courage
  • J & W Redemption, Highway 9, North Iowa
  • With the Kisses of Many
  • Today, the Neighbor Girl Wore a Blue Dress, and Her Doll Was Naughty at Tea
  • Note to My Unborn Son concerning the Fundamental Project of Democracy
  • Fishcutter
  • Me & Mississippi
  • Littlelight
  • Prairie Race Relations, Lodge Grass, One Sunday Afternoon
  • Like Bread the Light
  • III
  • Note to My Unborn Son concerning Winter, Grief, & Spring
  • Poem thinning out into prayer
  • Anyone who has eyes for seeing should see
  • The Can Picker, 1st & Cowls
  • Note to My Unborn Son concerning the Peculiarities of Faith
  • Caddo River Elegy
  • Encomium, Driving Highway 49 South
  • Note to My Unborn Son concerning the Second Law of Thermodynamics
  • Absence
  • Note to My Unborn Son concerning Time, Fear, and Impending Fatherhood
  • The Garage Sale Daze Meditations
  • Note to My Unborn Son concerning Canadian Folk Music
  • IV
  • Six Days' Lament
  • Each Word Holds the World
  • Complaint with Exhaustion & Amateur Theology
  • Colic
  • Missouri River
  • A Story We Might Follow
  • Complaint with Parking Lot Vegetable Stand & Child's Cry
  • Complaint with Drought and Economic Downturn
  • Arguing with James Baldwin the Day after the Reelection of Barack Obama.
  • The Spirit Entering as Midnight Wind
  • Wish
  • Ragged Point Road
  • "Where Was I before I Was Born?"
  • V
  • Eight Letters of Explanation, Acknowledgment, & Apology on the Occasion of My Son's First Birthday.