| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
viii, 88 pages ; 22 cm |
| Note |
"An Atlantic Monthly Press book." |
| Summary |
50 lyrical poems by the author express renewal of humanity in love and oneness with the natural. |
| Contents |
August -- Mushrooms -- The kitten -- Lightning -- In the pinewoods crows and owl -- Moles -- The lost children -- The bobcat -- Fall song -- Egrets -- Clapp's pond -- Tasting the wild grapes -- John Chapman -- First snow -- Ghosts -- Cold poem -- A poem for the blue heron -- Flying -- Postcard from flamingo -- Vultures -- An old whorehouse -- Rain in Ohio -- Web -- University Hospital Boston -- Skunk cabbage -- Spring -- Morning at great pond -- The snakes -- Blossom -- Something -- May -- White night -- The fish -- Honey at the table -- Crossing the swamp -- Humpbacks -- A meeting -- Little sister pond -- The roses -- Blackberries -- The sea -- Happiness -- Music -- Climbing the Chagrin River -- Tecumseh -- Bluefish -- The honey tree -- In blackwater woods -- The plum trees -- The gardens. |
| Awards |
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 1984. |
| Subject |
American poetry -- 20th century.
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American poetry. (OCoLC)fst00807348
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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| ISBN |
0316650021 |
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9780316650021 |
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0316650048 (pbk.) |
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9780316650045 (pbk.) |
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