Research Catalog

Title

So quietly the earth / David Lee.

Author

Lee, David, 1944 August 13-

Publication

Port Townsend, Wash. : Copper Canyon Press, [2004], ©2004.

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Details

Description

xi, 127 pages; 23 cm

Subjects

• Southwestern States > Poetry
• Nature > Poetry
• Human ecology > Poetry
• Landscapes > Poetry

Contents

Canyonlands requiem -- Dawn psalm, Pine Valley -- Alpine Pond, Cedar Breaks -- The grand staircase -- Paragonah in the rhythm of birdsong -- Idyll : found poem -- While walking (I) -- Summer count : Wyethia arizonica -- Abandoned cabin on the Clark Ranch : solstice -- On turning up a fossil in my garden -- Cedar Breaks -- While walking (II) -- Postcard to Sam from Paragonah -- Aspen pole fence -- Idyll for a collapsing season -- While walking (III) -- Autumn -- Yovimpa Point -- Bright Angel Point at sunset -- Parowan Canyon -- While walking (IV) -- Pit stop at Parowan Gap on a windy night -- Zion Narrows -- After the tree came down -- Kaiparowits Plateau -- Psalm written after reading Cormac McCarthy and taking a three-hour climb to the top of Pine Valley Mountain -- Dry lightning : Thor, in disguise, searches for Freya -- Sonnet on the sun, rising -- Dead Horse Point -- Ode beneath a hummingbird feeder -- Blowup site, Williamson's Ranch -- While walking (V) -- Lightning above the north fields : still life with rhyming pronouns -- On finding a drone bee and a painted lady butterfly in the same claret cup cactus blossom -- Cedar Mountain -- While walking (VI) -- Field trip : Grand Canyon, North Rim -- While walking (VII) -- Mountain meadows -- Canyonlands, Eden -- Betatakin -- While walking (VIII) -- Midnight mass, Escalante -- Matins -- Five-year drought : small September cloudburst on Pine Valley -- South Gorge, Moab -- While walking (IX) -- On the drowned town of Thistle beneath the lake caused by the great mudslide -- Roots -- Kolob at evening -- While walking (X) -- On the gift of an acorn picked up at the site of Thoreau's cabin -- Tomorrow's artifact : a short essay on anthropocentric mythopoeia -- Rainy day in Pine Valley -- Dawn song, last tango in Eden -- While walking (XI) -- Cloudburst with duckling at the pond's inlet -- Rhapsody in slickrock : a song for the roadrunner -- Paragonah Canyon - autumn -- While walking (XII) -- Requiem.

ISBN

1556592043 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2003024719

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries