| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
148 pages ; 21 cm. |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Series |
American reader series ; no. 37 |
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American reader series ; v. 37.
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| Contents |
Tale of the Tortoise -- The Man in the Chair -- According to Loop Quantum Gravity Theory -- All at Once -- The People Have Spoken and They Are Ugly -- The Woman on the Train -- I Hate to Say This -- Jesus Saves and Jesus Heals -- To Him, Who Is Me -- Draft of Final Chorus I -- Draft of Final Chorus II -- The Problem with Shapes in the Night Trees -- Homewood Nineteen Fifty Something -- This Back-Porch Rocker My Prison -- War Story -- Miami Nights -- To the Reader, on the Dharma -- Love Letter to Myself and to Mule -- Mourning Kham Thien Street -- Saturday Night in Bangkok with Nguyen Thi Hanh I -- Saturday Night in Bangkok with Nguyen Thi Hanh II -- Out Here -- Travel Writing, I -- The Problem with Desire -- Apres Flashback for My Good Doctor -- Wade Park VA -- Sometimes How It Feels -- Mourning the Postmodern -- Black Swans in the Garden of Perfect Splendor -- Frog Melody -- For a Friend Who Died -- My Final Job Application -- Where I Am When I'm Not Here -- From a Soldier's Diary -- Ha Noi Morning -- Deep Water -- Elegy for Lux -- Blowing Rock in Autumn -- Trigger -- Elegy for C.D. -- Elegy for Mahnke -- The Shadow Knows -- Small Song for Anna -- Weather Report for Riley H. -- Fool That I Am -- Razor -- The New Law -- Watching My Great-Uncle Shave, Johnstown PA, Circa 1954 -- Someone on the Train Said Mecca -- Crow Allegro -- Elegy for My Father and the Man in the Moon -- At a Car Wash in Little Rock -- Lost -- Tell Them Everything -- Steve -- Glory -- Summer Flash 2017 -- For Francis -- Fire Fish -- Liquor Was Involved -- Epistle to God -- Our Recent Way -- Some Ohio Cows -- The Name of Beauty on Ng6 Quyen Street -- Fa-Hien's Magic Cow Four Hundred Years Before Christ -- Lost in Beijing -- Milkweed Pods -- Elegy for One Soul -- Earring -- Camp Evans Blues -- Ohio Pastoral -- Elegy for Zora Grasa -- Us Children -- Cognitive Blue -- Lunch at the Wade Park VA Cafeteria, Early Twenty-First Century -- Winter and the New Year -- Cow Moves in with Bison Herd, Warsaw, Poland, 2018 -- Clinical Notes Number Ninety-One -- When Steve Pulled Through -- No Irritable Reaching -- The Still Unravished Bryn of Quietude -- Clinical Notes Number Ninety-Two -- Standing Before the Arch of Triumph in Bucharest, I Think of Lorain, Ohio and of Quang Tri Province, Viet Nam -- Sutra -- Drawing I -- Bad Day -- Evening Prayer -- Thang Long -- On the Road to B6 Da Pagoda -- On Thien Quang Lake, Nguyen Du, Ha Noi, Spring 2019 -- Living in a City Without Guns -- Hot Waters -- Waiting for the Cardinals -- What the Teacher Said -- The Price of Roses in Ha Noi -- Driving to Lang Chiia -- Meditation on Yet Kieu Street, Ha Noi, About Ohio -- Words for the Dancing Wu Li Masters -- Fishing in Ha Noi -- Caged Bird in Ha Noi -- Metaphysical There -- Coffee in Ha Noi -- What I Learned from the Night Bird in Ha Noi -- Blood, for X. -- Outside Quang Tri City, 1968 -- Mtia Xuan -- From a History of Many Lives. |
| Summary |
"Celebrated Army combat veteran's reflections born from the trauma of PTSD and the contemplative practices undertaken to survive it"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
American poetry.
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American poetry. (OCoLC)fst00807348
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| Genre/Form |
Poetry. http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1423828
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Poetry.
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| ISBN |
9781950774418 (paperback) |
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1950774414 (paperback) |
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9781950774425 (ebook) |
| Standard No. |
40030768643 |
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