| Description |
viii, 69 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Note |
Poems. |
| Contents |
The Retrieval System -- The Longing to Be Saved -- Address to the Angels -- My Father's Neckties -- Waiting Inland -- Making the Connection -- The Eight-Hour Dance -- Progress Report -- Hello, Hello Henry -- The Food Chain -- Extrapolations from Henry Manley's Pie Plant -- The Henry Manley Blues -- Henry Manley, Living Alone, Keeps Time -- Birthday Poem -- Changing the Children -- Parting -- Seeing the Bones -- The Archaeology of a Marriage -- Sunbathing on a Rooftop in Berkeley -- The Envelope -- Body and Soul: A Meditation -- How It Is -- Splitting Wood at Six Above -- Late Snow -- The Excrement Poem -- Remembering Pearl Harbor at the Tutankhamen Exhibit -- In April, in Princement -- Caught -- Tonight -- July, Against Hunger -- The Survival Poem -- Notes on a Blizzard -- Territory -- How It Goes On -- The Grace of Geldings in Ripe Pastures -- A Mortal Day of No Surprises. |
| Other Form: |
Online version: Kumin, Maxine, 1925- Retrieval system. New York : Viking, 1978 (OCoLC)558021261 |
| ISBN |
0670595764 |
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9780670595761 |
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