Research Catalog

Title

Rain on the river : selected poems and short prose / Jim Dodge.

Author

Dodge, Jim.

Publication

New York : Grove Press ; [Berkeley, Ca] : Distributed by Publishers Group West, [2002], ©2002.

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Details

Description

xiii, 127 pages; 21 cm

Contents

• Learning to Talk -- The Cookie Jar -- Things Thought Through -- On Balance -- Decomposition -- Psycho Ecology -- Life of the Spirit -- Aweigh -- Tao-to-Tao -- To Be -- Practice, Practice, Practice -- Wisdom and Happiness -- Red Sails -- Squall & Commotion -- Slow Learner -- Bathing Joe -- Mahogany China -- The First Cut Is the Deepest -- Waiting for Houdini to Come Up -- The Countessa -- Venison Stew -- Winter Song -- On Humor: On Mating Donkeys and Onions -- Watering the Garden on the Hottest Day of the Summer -- Palms to the Moon -- A Firmer Grasp of the Obvious -- The Work of Art -- Steelhead Fishing, Smith River, January -- The Third Bank of the River -- Green Side Up -- One Thing After Another -- Unnatural Selections: A Meditation upon Witnessing a Bullfrog Fucking a Rock -- Fishing Devil's Hole at the Peak of Spring -- Getting After It -- How to Catch the Biggest Fish -- Hard Work -- There It Is -- Knowing When to Stop -- Vacation Expenses --
• Basic Precepts and Avuncular Advice for Young Men -- Killing -- Death and Dying -- The Banker -- The Real Last Words of Billy the Kid -- The Moving Part of Motion -- How About -- Necessary Angels -- Prayer Bones -- Magic and Beauty -- Day Moon -- Karma Bird -- The Tunnel -- Hagerty Wrecks Another Company Truck -- Obsession -- Love Find -- Flux -- Thanks for the Dance -- The Stone -- Woman in a Room Full of Rubber Numbers -- Reason to Live -- Scratch -- Salvage -- An Epithalamium for Victoria -- Falling into Place -- Pay-By-Play -- Job Application -- The Mouth of the River -- The Prior and Subsequent Heavens -- Old Growth -- Three Ways to Get the Carrot on the Stick -- Eurydice Ascending -- The Drought of '76 -- True Account of the Saucer People -- About Time -- Smithereens -- Jack o' Hearts Shopping Mortmart -- Holy Shit.

ISBN

0802138969 (pbk.)

LCCN

2001058483

OCLC

• ocm48507948
• SCSB-4286684

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries