When we were birds Poems
Book - 2016
Saved in:
- Subjects
- Genres
- Poetry
- Published
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Fayetteville :
University of Arkansas Press
2016.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Physical Description
- xvi, 116 pages ; 22 cm
- Awards
- Oregon Book Award, 2017 (Stafford/Hall award for poetry)
- ISBN
- 9781557286970
- My Son Asks for the Story about When We Were Birds
- I.
- Eat Stone and Go On
- Note to My Unborn Son concerning Quickening
- Ragged Point Road
- An Ode for Leaving the Place You Call Home
- Leviadian
- The Day We Finish Painting the Bedroom, My Wife's Father E-mails Us His Suicide Note
- Note to My Unborn Son concerning Our First Birthing Class
- Complaint with the Turning of the Season & Shined Shoes
- Drought
- The Gospel according to Kelly, Night Shift Manager, Forest City Fuel & Food
- II.
- Note to My Unborn Son concerning Manufacturing Economics and Courage
- J&W Redemption, Highway 9, North Iowa
- With the Kisses of Many
- Today, the Neighbor Girl Wore a Blue Dress, and Her Doll Was Naughty Tea
- Note to My Unborn Son concerning the Fundamental Project of Democracy
- Fishcutter
- Me & Mississippi
- Littlelight
- Prairie Race Relations, Lodge Grass, One Sunday Afternoon
- Like Bread the Light
- III.
- Notes to My Unborn Son concerning Winter, Grief, & Spring
- Poem thinning out into prayer
- Anyone who has eyes for seeing should see
- The Can Picker, 1st & Cowls
- Note to My Unborn Son concerning the Peculiarities of Faith
- Caddo River Elegy
- Encomium, Driving Highway 49 South
- Note to My Unborn Son concerning the Second Law of Thermodynamics
- Absence
- Note to My Unborn Son concerning Time, Fear, and Impending Fatherhood
- The Garage Sale Daze Meditations
- Note to My Unborn Son concerning Canadian Folk Music
- IV.
- Six Days' Lament
- Each Word Holds the World
- Complaint with Exhaustion & Amateur Theology
- Colic
- Missouri River
- A Story We Might Follow
- Complaint with Parking Lot Vegetable Stand & Child's Cry
- Complaint with Drought and Economic Downturn
- Arguing with James Baldwin the Day after the Reelection of Barack Obama
- The Spirit Entering as Midnight Wind
- Wish
- Ragged Point Road
- "Where Was I before I Was Born?"
- V.
- Eight Letters of Explanation, Acknowledgment, & Apology on the Occasion of My Son's First Birthday