Research Catalog

Title

Stones don't float : poems selected and new / John Haag.

Author

Haag, John.

Publication

Columbus : Ohio State University Press, 1996.

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Description

ix, 117 pages ;c; 22 cm

Summary

• John Haag's career spans more than forty years, and his poetry is so unusual - and so sure of itself in the seemingly effortless way it marries serious music and original thoughtthat the reader searches in vain for signs that Haag has been influenced by the various fashions and trends that have breezed through American writing from Central and South America and Europe since the 1950s.
• A former student and friend of James Wright, a former merchant seaman, and now an orchidist, a mycologist, and a professor of writing, John Haag is a singer of songs about the natural world that his hearers can believe to be true, so deep and wide is the experience and the heart out of which they come. His poems are his travels, his travels his poems.
• Haag's timely and timeless accounts of the lands and seas he explores are nothing less than a careful cataloging of the limitless varieties of human love and longing.

Contents

• Calamity Jane: On Pain -- The body knows -- The Year Begins in Mid-Winter -- You Must Come Home, Even If You Don't Have One -- Afternoon Debate -- Losing Touch -- Hearth Bitch -- Some Accurate Information about Angels -- Meditation on His Ninety-First Year -- The Plug -- For My Mother -- Barbara -- Dorothy -- The Child of Many Winters -- Stoning the Spring -- Maples applaud -- What you arouse/For the Missing -- All Grass Is Flesh -- "Paint like a man..." -- On the Straits of Juan de Fuca -- The Boy Who Dined on Rainbows -- Homesteader -- If a Simple Meditation Works, Trust It -- From Another Country, with Love -- Sea Song -- The Separation -- Blackwater -- The Cove -- Jonah -- The Symbiotics -- The Navigator -- Sailing to Atlantis -- Rapture of the Deep -- Burnout -- Nocturne for an Urban Summer -- Urban Scrawl -- Petit Mort -- It's Late -- The Empath -- Canticle for Christopher Smart -- The Long Dream of Falling -- The Recluse -- The Purist -- Thief --
• Bufkin -- The Ballad of All Deposit, No Return -- Kilroy -- A Curse against Unfinished Poems -- Song for the Thumb Piano -- The Priceless Spread -- Happy Father's Day -- You'd Get There Sooner If You Realized You've Already Arrived -- Martini with Gambits -- Neutrino -- Standing -- Please Don't Finish Anything You Can't Start -- Lullaby for a Very Dark Night -- The Poem That Isn't an Ark -- Food Poems -- 100 Hummingbirds -- The Sundial -- The Eye in the Forest -- The Wind Just Moves It Around, the Water Carries It Away -- Dying anyone can ... -- My Funeral: A Conscientious Objection -- Atlantis on $5.00 a Day.

ISBN

• 0814207162 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0814207170 (paper : alk. paper)

LCCN

96024145

OCLC

• 34958698
• ocm34958698

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries