A Map of the Night /
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...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
[2008]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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 ActorsA 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 HogThoreau 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
- StakeoutChanging 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 FairIn 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