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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780887482502
  • Publisher: Carnegie-Mellon University Press
  • Publication date: 8/28/1997
  • Series: Classic Contemporaries Series
  • Edition description: Reprint
  • Pages: 70
  • Product dimensions: 5.82 (w) x 9.34 (h) x 0.21 (d)

Table of Contents

When We Are Lost 3
Now 4
Washing My Face 5
Lines Written in Dejection, Oklahoma 6
Manhattan Island Poem 7
Daffodil Poem 8
The Bridge 9
Silence 10
The Doll 11
The Dinner 12
The Wooden Dancer 13
The Girl with 18 Nightgowns 14
The Room 15
"Transients Welcome" 16
The Fast 17
The Sleeping Angel 18
The Ambassadors 19
Making Beasts 23
In an Empty Field at Night 24
Poem to the Body 25
Sunrise 26
Poem to the Mother 27
Poem for My Dead Mother 28
For Brynhilde 29
Nakedness 31
Climbing the Falls 32
Going Out 33
Beginning 34
Poem ("This life like no other.") 35
Waterfall at Night 36
Poem ("One man climbs inside a thorntree") 37
October 38
The Meadow 41
Love Poem ("A black biplane crashes through the window") 42
For Naoko, Standing Alone in the Field 43
Love Poem ("We wake up and in the lumps of coal in our hands") 44
Sleepless Night 45
A Marriage 46
A Final Aubade 47
Getting Dressed 48
Trying to Sleep 49
Song of the Salamander 50
Withdrawing 51
Sleeping Alone in a Small Room 52
Singing the Pain Back into the Wound 53
For Good 54
The Stone That Is Fear 57
A Stone's Poem of Pain 58
Remembering Her Kiss 59
The Stone in Winter 60
The Animals 61
The Vampire 62
A Late Night Visitor 63
The Clearing 64
Concerning the Stone 65
Late at Night 66
A Courting Poem 67
At the Wedding in the Woods 68
After the Marriage 69
A Parable 70
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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 27, 2000

    A Wonderful Poetic Voice

    Gregory Orr is one of the best poets writing today. This book was his first, published in the mid 1970s. The images and the clarity of the images are just wonderful, and it is a craft he honed for later books.

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