| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
129 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Summary |
Highlights the human experience and the both light and dark responses that come with it. |
| Contents |
I.A commonweath of place : Six cold poems from Colorado ; Winter light -- Snow clouds -- Tree in winter -- Winter sunset, Pike's Peak -- Colorado winds High plains -- North Park -- Alpenglow -- Florissand fossil beds -- On the mesa top -- Driftwood -- Horizon -- Las Campanas Cerro Pedernal At the Circle a ranch -- Three for Patric's eightieth ; Hibernia -- Caledonia -- Britannia -- II. Order under the sun : Amaryllis -- Honey -- Blue heron and blue sky -- Iris -- Garlic -- Cottonwood -- Cabbage -- Yellow-crowned night heron -- Four o'clocks -- Eggs -- Aviary -- Scarlet gilia -- Cheese -- Egret by the pond -- Bluebonnets -- Carrots -- Sparrows -- Trees in the park -- III. The scripted fate : Del Rio and Winter Garden -- Blue norther -- For a late cat (I) -- For a late cat (II) -- Evelyn -- For friends of a man who died in a Las Vegas casino -- To a friend whose husband died in the Madrid Airport -- For a friend grieving after and unexpected death -- For one whose husband drowned in the backyard pool -- To a close friend whose father hanged himself -- Edith's party -- The eagle -- On seeing Patric again -- Growing pains -- Abed -- An evening at Eleanor's -- Anniversary -- IV. Themes for the Muses -- At the ballet -- Beaumarchais in the tribunal -- In the Brooklyn Museum -- Liszt in Weimar -- In an English cathedral -- Yeats and Maud Gonne -- L'elisir d'amore -- Anges de Mille in Paris -- Stockholm, June 2000 -- Kim Kum-sum -- At the Art Show -- Themes for piano and poetry ; Lamentation -- Conjecture -- Romance. |
| Subject |
American poetry.
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American poetry. (OCoLC)fst00807348
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Lyrik.
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Amerikanisches Englisch.
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| ISBN |
9780881462739 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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088146273X (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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