Research Catalog

Title

Even so : new and selected poems / Gary Young.

Author

Young, Gary, 1951-

Publication

Buffalo, N.Y. : White Pine Press, c2012.

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Details

Description

229 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

Features previously published and new poems that express the author's thoughts about marriage, parenthood, love, and the world around him.

Subject

Prose poems, American

Genre/Form

• poetry.
• Poetry
• Poésie.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• From Hands. Walking home from work -- First rain -- The doctor rebuilds a hand -- Secondhand suit -- Through a stranger's house -- The laying on of hands -- Rev. Robert A. Young (1893-1977) -- Winter solstice -- Equinox -- The pears -- from The dream of a moral life. Eating wild mushrooms -- Prayer -- Starfish -- Under the catalpa trees -- Tornado watch, Bloomington, Indiana -- The elegies -- Seven days of rain -- To raise a chimney -- Our life in California -- At San Vicente Creek -- On printing -- The orchard in oils -- Burning -- The lake at Echo Park -- September night -- from Days. She took my two hands -- I don't know where -- My friend is dying -- I have such envy -- We sat in a silence -- Our son was born -- I'm reading the stars -- I last saw my mother -- The baby fusses -- Trembling and furious -- The stream echoed -- The stillborn calf -- I'm a mother, too -- Falling limbs -- Queen Anne's lace -- In a dream that shouldn't -- I walked through -- Two girls were struck --^
• A boy wandered -- If we lived alone -- Three girls -- Tea steeps in my old cup -- I wanted a house -- Boulders roll and chime -- My house is in ruin -- Our cat was killed -- The world is made -- I had never seen her -- My son wakes screaming -- I watched a snake -- The sun is a star -- Beneath the climbing tree -- I put asters -- from Braver deeds. My brother's in Wyoming -- My mother was a beautiful woman -- Jupiter, Venus, and Mars -- I was home from the hospital -- Kitty smiled -- I have to look -- One night, when I was certain -- Jimmy Rattcliffe played Jesus Christ -- My mother loved violets -- In New Jersey -- There was dead space -- In the final weeks -- The burining house -- I was ten -- My mother cut her toenails -- I've been up all night -- My father would say -- I discovered a journal -- My mother wouldn't ride -- Crushed by love -- Still bandaged -- My mother entertained the troops -- The doctor said -- My mother had the flesh burned -- I want to love you while I can --^
• Kitty and I were born on the same day -- The bodies of men and women -- Last week -- To survive his years -- My mother practiced yoga -- My brother was playing -- A girl I knew was murdered -- I saw the carcass of a deer -- They bussed us to the induction center -- When I was five -- It's Sunday, October ninth -- Alone in a strange town -- from If he had. I am not an incidental thought of God's -- Six birds rise in unison -- She called the police -- A woman leans -- When your children ask -- There are tracks in the snow -- Tom Bone fell from deck -- My son's small voice -- That afternoon in the garden -- To keep him still -- Fog descends over the tidal surge -- They sat with the boy's body -- Hummingbirds build their nests -- I followed the mazy fracture -- The rain has stopped -- The sycamore leaves -- I would life forever if I could -- Above the creek -- In Missouri -- He was drinking -- He wheeled a corpse -- An owl drifts slowly -- Last summer -- I was prepared for anything --^
• Our life is one castastrophe after another -- The passion flowers have bloomed -- from Pleasure. It's a joy to be subtracted -- The Vedas tell us -- A tall man in a white apron -- I stood on a narrow bridge -- Three women walked toward us -- I couldn't find the mushrooms -- Since dawn -- I took my son into the forest -- When I was a young man -- A warm current -- The boys have on idea -- The signature mark of autumn -- My son says, I wish I could -- Stephen sends me clippings -- We'd been talking about the limits -- I woke in panic -- There was a total eclipse -- She handed me a piece of salmon -- My son has drawn two circles -- There wasn't flesh enough to resist -- I rose before dawn -- Every Wednesday -- It's early winter -- I left home -- The beans soaking in the steel pot -- Who would volunteer to live -- When I step in from the deck -- The world cannot be contained -- The poet is barely visible -- Jack is telling a joke at the bar -- The fragrance is welling up --^
• A woman kneeling

ISBN

• 9781935210337
• 1935210335

LCCN

^^2011931997

OCLC

756582556

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library