| Description |
111 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
How to fly. How to drink water when there is wine -- How to have a child -- How to cure sweet potatoes -- How to shear a sheep -- How to fly (in ten thousand easy lessons) -- How to give thanks for a broken leg -- How to survive this -- How to do absolutely nothing -- How to lose that stubborn weight -- How to get a divorce -- How to be married -- How to knit a swetaer (a realist's prayer) -- How to love your neighbor -- How to be hopeful. Pellegrinaggio. Pellegrinaggio -- The roman circus -- On the piazza -- Into the Abruzzo -- In Torricella, finding her mother's house -- Circumnavigating Torricella Peligna -- Pompeii -- At the top of Mount Vesuvius -- Swimming in the Bay of Naples -- On the train to Sicily -- Monreale -- Lemon-Orhcard Bay -- The road to Erice is paved with intentions -- Palermo. This is how they come back to us. Burying ground -- This is how they come back to us -- Passing death -- The visitation -- Long division -- My Great-Grandmothern's plate -- Thank-you note for a quilt -- My mother's last forty minutes. Walking each other home. By the roots -- My first Derby party -- Snow day -- Six women swimming naked in the ocean -- Courtship dance on Playa Luria -- Will -- Creation stories -- Meadowview Elementary spelling bee -- Blow me -- After -- Walking each other home. Dancing with the devil -- Thief -- Dancing with the devil: advice for the female poet -- Cage of heaven -- Insomniac Villanelle -- My afternoon with the postman. Where it begins. Where it begins. The nature of objects. Ghost pipes -- The nature of objects -- Come August, a Seven -Day rain -- Ephemera -- Love poem, with birds -- Swimming in the Wamba -- Cradle -- Down under -- The hands of trees -- Mussel, minnow -- Matabele -- Great barrier -- Forests of Antarctica. |
| Summary |
"In her second poetry collection, the author of The Poisonwood Bible and over a dozen other New York Times best-sellers celebrates natural wonders and addresses everyday matters like hope, marriage, friendship and flying"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
American poetry -- 21st century.
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Conduct of life -- Poetry.
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Nature observation -- Poetry.
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Free verse.
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| Genre |
Poetry.
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| ISBN |
9780062993083 |
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