| Description |
166 pages ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (page 163) and index. |
| Contents |
Two pictures of my sister -- What my father told me -- Ghosts -- The garden -- The tooth fairy -- Quarter to six -- Awake -- Girl in the doorway -- On the back porch -- Bird -- The laundromat -- Sunday -- Late October -- After twelve days of rain -- Aphasia -- What we carry -- For the sake of Strangers -- Dust -- Twelve -- Each sound -- Fast gas -- As it is -- The thief -- This close -- The lovers -- Kissing -- Death comes to me again, a girl -- How it will happen, when -- Fear -- Last words -- Trying to raise the dead -- The shipfitter's wife -- Abschied symphony -- Family stories -- Pearl -- Smoke -- The orgasms of organisms -- Life is beautiful -- Moon in the window -- Facts about the moon -- The crossing -- The ravens of Denali -- The life of trees -- What's broken -- Afterlife -- Savages -- Vacation sex -- Democracy -- Face poem -- Superglue -- Cello -- Little Magnolia -- Starling -- Staff Sgt. Metz -- Bakersfield, 1969 -- Jeneau Sprin -- Mine own Phil Levine -- Late-night TV -- Homicie detective: a film Noir -- Mick Jagger (worl tour, 2008) -- Men -- Antilamentation -- Cher -- Dog moon -- Mother's day -- Dark Charms -- Lost in Costco -- Second chances -- Fall -- Emily said -- The secret of backs -- Lapse -- Before surgery -- Death of the mother -- Under stars -- Changeable weather -- Only as the day is long -- Piano with children -- My mother's colander -- Ant farm -- Heart of thorns -- Ideas of Heaven -- Crow -- Ode to gray -- Evening -- Error's refuge -- Augusta, Maine, 1951 -- Chair -- Urn -- Arizoona -- Letter to my dead mother -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index. |
| Subject |
Poetry.
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| ISBN |
9780393652338 (hardcover) |
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