About Distance

by Gregory Djanikian

Overview

A collection of poetry by Gregory Djanikian.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780887481871
Publisher:	Carnegie-Mellon University Press
Publication date:	01/01/1995
Series:	Carnegie Mellon Poetry Series
Pages:	88
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Gregory Djanikian has published six previous collections of poems with Carnegie Mellon, most recently Dear Gravity. His poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies and have been featured on PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. He was for many years the director of creative writing at the University of Pennsylvania. He lives outside Philadelphia.

Table of Contents

In the New House • Visiting Irasburg, Vermont in July • In the House Where Waiting Begins • Mrs. Caldera's House of Things • Mrs. Kinsey's House of Children • Words for the Spare House • The Visit • Running through Arizona • About Distance My Father Teaches Me a Kind of Driving • In Alexandria • Uncle Hagop the Spendthrift • Uncle Karekin • At Stanley Bay • Grandmother, Garlic, and Alexandria Going Back • Mr. Levering Our Scoutmaster Gives Me a Sense of Perspective • Mrs. Mitstifer • Walking my Children Home from School • The Persistence of Zachary • Compensations • The Teenager • When I Am Away from my Children Shooting Star • Somewhere Between • Territories • A Hill in Summer • Another Side • Unhappiness • The Leap • Dark Quarrel • The Sleeper • Rara Avis • A Moment for Husband and Wife • At Flood Time • After Long Days of Rain • For Us