| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
109 pages ; 23 cm. |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
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Teachers lcdgt |
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Texans lcdgt |
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Women lcdgt |
| Series |
American poets continuum series ; v. 29 |
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American poets continuum series ; v. 29.
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| Note |
Poems. |
| Contents |
Travel Alarm -- From Here to There -- The Attic and its Nails -- Arabic -- Jerusalem -- Holy Land -- Words When We Need Them -- How Palestinians Keep Warm -- Late -- Voices -- White Hair Over the Rocky Mountains -- Almost, Never -- Texas, The First Time -- What She Was Doing at Home -- Swimmer, Blessed Sea -- His Secret -- The Man Whose Voice Has Been Taken From His Throat -- Someone Is Standing On the Roof of the World -- My Grandmother in the Stars -- Living Where We Do -- In That Time -- Any Number -- Sincerely -- Breaking the Fast -- Violin -- Yeast -- Continual Usage -- Escape -- Sparrow Bones -- Tongue-Tied -- The Crossed-Out Word -- Living with Mistakes -- Niagara -- In the Public Schools -- Problems with the Story -- Valentine for Ernest Mann -- Fireflies -- What Is Supposed To Happen -- What Brings Us Out -- Lucia, Your Voice -- What Happened in Madisonville -- First Hawaiian Bank -- "If God Won't Take Me, Why Won't the Devil?" -- Salt -- The Silence of Hutchinson, Kansas: A Letter from Texas -- Saved -- Lullaby For Regret -- NextTime -- Love Letter, Hate Letter -- Brushing Lives -- Morning Paper, Society Page -- Even at War -- The Grieving Ring -- For the 500th Dead Palestinian, Ibtisam Bozieh -- Those Whom We Do Not Know -- Inside the Riddle -- Shoulders. |
| Summary |
A collection of poetry in which the author draws from ordinary people and events for subject matter. |
| Subject |
American poetry.
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American poetry. (OCoLC)fst00807348
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| Genre/Form |
Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01423828
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Poetry.
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| ISBN |
1880238152 (pbk.) |
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9781880238158 (pbk.) |
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1880238144 |
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9781880238141 |
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