| Description |
152 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
From Sleeping with one eye open. Sleeping with one eye open -- When the vacation is over for good -- Violent storm -- Old people on the nursing home porch -- Taking a walk with you -- Keeping things whole -- The whole story -- The tunnel -- Poem -- Make believe ballroom time -- From reasons for moving. The mailman -- The accident -- The man in the tree -- The man in the mirror -- The last bus -- The ghost ship -- The kite -- Moontan -- What to think of -- The marriage -- The babies -- Eating poetry -- The dirty hand -- The door -- The new poetry handbook -- The remains -- Giving myself up -- The room -- Letter -- Nostalgia -- Tomorrow -- The dress -- The guardian -- The dance -- The good life -- Black maps -- The hill -- Coming to this -- Seven poems -- The sleep -- Breath -- The prediction -- The one song -- From a litany -- My life -- My death -- The dreadful has already happened -- My life by somebody else -- Elegy 1969 -- Courtship -- Not dying -- The way it is -- From The story of our lives. Elegy for my father -- In celebration -- She -- The room -- The story of our lives -- The untelling -- From The late hour. The coming of light -- Another place -- Lines for winter -- My son -- White -- For Jessica, my daughter -- From The long sad party -- The late hour -- Seven days -- So you say -- Snowfall -- An old man awake in his own death -- For her -- Exiles -- Pot roast -- Poor north -- Where are the waters of childhood? -- The house in French Village -- The garden -- Night piece -- New poems. Shooting whales -- Nights in Hackett's Cove -- A morning -- My mother on an evening in late summer -- Leopardi. |
| Subject |
American poetry -- 20th century.
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Poets, American -- 20th century.
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Poetry -- Collections.
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| Added Title |
Poems. Selections
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| ISBN |
0679733019: $10.95 (Can. $14.95) |
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9780679733010 |
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