| Description |
1 online resource (116 p.) |
| Series |
Made in Michigan Writers Series |
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Made in Michigan writers series.
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| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: What My Father Did Not Have to Say -- Look at Those Birds -- The Name of the Father, the Name of the Fish -- Practice -- House With No Light Left On Inside It -- Everything Where I Have Left It -- I Take a Walk With the Gods -- Brothers and Fathers and Sons -- Who Walks in the Rain Walks On water -- The Dark Above the River is Light -- South of White Rock, Lake Huron, July 1979 -- There is Singing -- Last Song -- What the Birds Keep Trying to Tell Him -- More Birds Than I Know What to Do With -- I Did What I Could to Keep This -- The Old Neighborhood -- Because I Could Not Sing -- The Song and the river -- My Father's Only Son -- On the Island in Search of My father -- I Did Not Hear the Loons Until Later -- A Portrait of My Father At the End as Sisyphus -- Where There is a River There is a Light -- April 6 -- On Turning Fifty-Two -- No words -- Too Many Days, or Where the River Turns to Lake -- When It is Dark Enough to See -- Still Life in Winter with River Ice and Sky -- Skin of River and Bone -- Walking Out Alone onto the February River -- We Did Not Know the Difference -- I Am Tempted to Say I Know Nothing -- Winter birds -- We Just Wanted to Get Him Home -- The Bird Inside My Fathers chest -- What I Know is Not My Father -- Carrying the Fish -- What Was Never his to Begin With -- When No One Was Looking I looked -- Man on Boat -- What in the Night the Moon makes -- When the Light is Still Present but Fading -- Maybe Next Time -- The Sentence I Am Trying Not to Write -- Slow Dance With My Father With No music -- Still Life with Goose in Mid-Flight -- On My Morning Walk I Question What I See -- Fishing in the Rain with My Father -- Under the Hood of My Father's '89 Lincoln Town Car -- On What Would Have Been My Fathers Eighty-Seventh Birthday -- In the Twilight the Something That is Always there -- Where I'm From -- This Water, This Rock and Dirt, This river -- On My Daughter's Twenty-Third Birthday -- What is Always There Even When It isn't -- Where What Was Still Alive Was Singing -- We Looked for the Birds to Tell Us -- When the Loons Return to the River -- Bullhead -- Almost Human -- Sheepshead -- What a Fish is Not Supposed to See -- In a Poem He Might Praise the birds -- What I Still Feel Inside, or Some Other Darkness -- bones -- When Our Fathers Return to Us as Birds -- Not Able to say It -- There is Always Some Other Way to Say It -- The Swans Revisited -- The Moth -- For My mother -- What Did I Know about Work -- Work Song -- Whatever It Was It Was an Honor, Call It a Privilege -- What We Cant Get rid Of -- Guilty -- In Greek the Word for Forgiveness -- Only the River Between Us -- We Fish -- Fear and Death Which is Different Than Fear of Death -- I Am Afraid I Am Going to forget -- On the Other Side of the River -- So Much of What We No Longer Want -- Dead Mans Point -- On the River With Time Being What it Is -- Deadwood -- Wood, Wings, bones -- Tell That to Our Fathers, or On the Eve of My Fifty-Third Birthday, Pointe Mouillee, 2019 -- Briefly It Might Have Even flown |
| Summary |
A luminous and heartfelt collection of mourning poetry |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
American poetry -- 21st century.
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American poetry
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| Genre/Form |
poetry.
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Poetry.
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Poésie.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780814348512 |
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0814348513 |
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