On a Wing of the Sun : Three Volumes of Poetry

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Winner of the American Book Award, the Pushcart Prize, the Stanley Hanks Memorial Poetry Award (judged by Philip Levine), and the Oklahoma Book Award, Jim Barnes has been hailed as "a masterful poet, a most worthy voice for his generation" (Samuel Maio) and "one of the finest poets now writing in the United States" (David Ray). This generous volume brings together for the first time three acclaimed collections of Barnes's poetry: The American Book of the Dead, A Season of Loss, and La Plata Cantata.
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Winner of the American Book Award, the Pushcart Prize, the Stanley Hanks Memorial Poetry Award (judged by Philip Levine), and the Oklahoma Book Award, Jim Barnes has been hailed as "a masterful poet, a most worthy voice for his generation" (Samuel Maio) and "one of the finest poets now writing in the United States" (David Ray). This generous volume brings together for the first time three acclaimed collections of Barnes's poetry: The American Book of the Dead, A Season of Loss, and La Plata Cantata.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780252070150
  • Publisher: University of Illinois Press
  • Publication date: 9/28/2001
  • Pages: 264
  • Product dimensions: 6.02 (w) x 9.00 (h) x 0.76 (d)

Table of Contents

Autobiography, Chapter 1: Leaving Summerfield 4
The Chicago Odyssey 5
On the Beach at Manzanita, Oregon 6
Autobiographical Flashback: Puma and Pokeweed 8
Still-Hildreth Sanitarium: Fishing 9
These Mysteries 10
Last Look at La Plata, Missouri 12
Return to La Plata, Missouri 13
An Ex-Deputy Sheriff Remembers the Eastern Oklahoma Murderers 14
Autobiography, Chapter 7: Home for Memorial Day 18
Sundown at Swan Lake, Missouri 20
The Body Falters 22
On the Eve of My Parents' Sixtieth Anniversary 24
Old Soldiers' Home at Marshalltown, Iowa 25
Swan Lake, Again 26
Pyramid Lake, Late Summer 28
For a Drowned Sailor, Age 4 29
Elegy for the Girl Who Drowned at Goats Bluff 30
Postcard to Grace Schulman 31
Autobiography, Chapter 17: Floating the Big Piney 32
Scouting Tom Fry Hollow 33
On Top of Winding Stair Mountain 34
Under Buffalo Mountain 35
Autobiography, Chapter 14: Tombstone at Petit Bay, near Tahlequah 36
Still-Hildreth Sanitarium: Ice Fishing 37
Autobiography, Chapter 6: San Diego Harbor at Dusk 38
Tracking the Siuslaw Man 39
San Miguel de Allende 40
The Last Trip Somewhere West 41
Autobiography, Chapter 16: Return to Rich Mountain 42
Comcomly's Skull 43
Autobiography, Chapter 15: Agate Beach, California 44
The Only Photography of Quentin at Harvard 45
My Father's House 48
Origin 50
The Good Dark 51
Tonight the Moon 52
Autobiography, Chapter 13: Ghost Train, the Dream 53
After Dreams 54
The Ghost's Story 55
After a Postcard from Stryk in Japan 56
Autobiography, Chapter 12: Hearing Montana 57
In Rudolph's Cave 58
Autobiography, Chapter 3: Nearing El Paso 59
Dog Days 1978 60
One for Grand Ronde, Oregon 61
Autobiography, Chapter 18: Camp in the Dead of Summer 62
Lost in Sulphur Canyons 64
Autobiography, Chapter 9: Leaving, Again 66
The Iowa Sequence 67
Autobiography, Chapter 11: Prelude to Writing 70
Memoirs of a Catskinner 72
On the Bridge at Fourche Maline River 74
The Last Chance 75
Year's End 1977 78
Winter Pastoral 79
Contemporary Native American Poetry 80
Midwest Midwinter 81
Autobiography, Chapter 2: Setting Out 83
The Exact Center of the World 84
Against Metempsychosis &c 85
Autobiography, Chapter 19: For Andrew Grossbardt, in Memoriam 87
Autobiography, Chapter 4: The Mirage 88
Wild Horse Hollow 89
Autobiography, Chapter 5: Ghost Town 90
Autobiography, Chapter 8: At the Sand Fields 91
Loving the Distant Nude 92
The Family Plot 93
Tornado 94
Stopping on Kiamichi Mountain 95
Autobiography, Chapter 42: Three Days in Louisville 97
Self-Portrait 100
Autobiography: Last Chapter 101
Bone Yard 106
Paiute Ponies 107
La Plata, Missouri: Clear November Night 108
Haleyon Days 109
Near Crater Lake 110
Thunderstorm in a Nevada Ghost Town 111
A Rannaigheacht Ghairid on Spring Burning 112
Song of I-see-o 113
In Memory of a Day Nobody Remembers: September 26, 1874 114
January Wind 115
At the Burn on the Oregon Coast 116
On the Mountain 117
Right Place, Wrong Time 118
Postcard from Poison Spider Creek, Wyoming 119
Trying to Hide Out on Rich Mountain 120
Four Things Choctaw 121
Choctaw Cemetery 123
Rabbits 124
Black Mesa Sundown 125
Reading Santa Fe 126
Black Mesa Nocturn 128
Badlands Mirage 129
A Sunday Dreamer's Guide to Yarrow, Missouri 130
A Season of Loss 131
A Song for All of Them 132
A Season of Sun Dogs 133
Dog Days 136
Rest Stop at Horse Thief Spring 137
Sweating It Out on Winding Stair Mountain 138
Return to the Roundup Tavern 139
The Long Lone Nevada Night Highway 141
Dirge 142
Decades 144
Yuma: The Greyhound Depot 146
The Sentence 147
Notes for a Love Letter from Mid-America 148
Sundays 151
For Geoffrey Firmin, in Hell 152
Odyssey 154
Surviving the Storm 156
Autobiography, Chapter 10: Circus in the Blood 158
On Location at Tongue River 159
Crow 160
The Drowning 161
Heartland 163
Ghost Fog 164
The Captive Stone 165
Parable 166
Accident at Three Mile Island 167
Toy Soldiers 168
The Pawnbroker Takes Final Inventory 170
Call It Going with the Sun 172
5-Ring Circus at Season's End 174
Gill Netting the Beaver Pond 177
Surveying near Ellsworth, Kansas 180
The Heavener Runes 181
Near Cimarron, New Mexico 182
Great Plains Tornado 183
South Willamette Valley Bars: A Memoir 184
Circus Poster 186
Once in Winnemucca 187
Stations 188
Dreams the Children Had 190
Icons 191
Something in the Blood 194
Trying to Read the Glyphs 195
Postcard from Blue Finger Lake 196
Learning Balance 197
Going after the Milch Cow 198
Touching the Rattlesnake 199
Hunting Winding Stair Mountain 201
First Cavalry: Holson Valley Road, 1942 203
The War over Holson Valley 204
Bombardier 205
The Submarine in the Park between the Muskogee Toll Road and the Arkansas River 209
Memories of Oceanside 211
The Game 213
Ubi Sunt 214
Night Letter to the Secretary of the Interior 215
Domain 217
Paraglyphs 218
Three Songs from a Texas Oilfield 221
At 39: The View from Sycamore Tower 222
Below the Sans Bois Mountain 223
In Hugo Country 224
Horsefly, B.C. 225
Crossing the Kiamichis Again 226
La Plata Cantata 227
For the Suicide 238
Deer Camp: Blue Mountain 239
From the Swinging Bridge 240
Acknowledgments 241

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