| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource. |
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data file rda |
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Poetry |
| Series |
American reader series ; no. 37 |
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American reader series ; v. 37.
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| Contents |
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Part I: The Problem with Shapes in the Night Trees -- 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 |
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Love Letter to Myself and to Mule -- Mourning Khâm Thiên Street -- Saturday Night in Bangkok with Nguyen Thi Hanh I -- Saturday Night in Bangkokwith Nguyen Thi Hanh II -- Out Here -- Travel Writing, I -- The Problem with Desire -- Après Flashback for My Good Doctor -- Wade Park VA -- Part II: Razor -- 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 -- Hà Noi Morning -- Deep Water -- Elegy for Lux -- Blowing Rock in Autumn |
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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 -- Part III: The Name of Beauty on Ngô Quyen Street -- 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 |
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The Name of Beauty on Ngô 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 |
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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 Bo Dà Pagoda -- On Thien Quang Lake, Nguyen Du, Hà Noi, Spring 2019 -- Living in a City Without Guns -- Hot Waters -- Waiting for the Cardinals -- What the Teacher Said -- The Price of Roses in Hà Noi -- Driving to Làng Chùa -- Meditation on Yet Kiêu Street, Hà Noi, About Ohio -- Words for the Dancing Wu Li Masters -- Fishing in Hà Noi -- Caged Bird in Hà Noi -- Metaphysical There -- Coffee in Hà Noi |
| Summary |
"Celebrated Army combat veteran's reflections born from the trauma of PTSD and the contemplative practices undertaken to survive it"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Note |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 29, 2021). |
| Subject |
American poetry -- 21st century.
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American poetry. (OCoLC)fst00807348
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| Chronological Term |
2000-2099
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Weigl, Bruce, 1949- Among elms, in ambush First edition. Rochester, NY : BOA Editions, Ltd., 2021. 9781950774418 (DLC) 2021009567 |
| ISBN |
9781950774425 electronic book |
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1950774422 electronic book |
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