Research Catalog

Title

Songs for a Summons : poems / David Guterson.

Author

Guterson, David

Publication

Sandpoint, Idaho : Lost Horse Press, [2014]

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Details

Description

i, 64 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"Written well into mid-life, Songs for a Summons are explorations and observations of a writing life. David Guterson is the author of Snow Falling on Cedars, recipient of the 1995 PEN/Faulkner Award, East of the Mountains, Our Lady of the Forest, The Other, and Ed King. Songs for a Summons is his first poetry book."As is true when David Guterson enriches our lives and literature with memorable stories and essays, he is on these pages a poet acutely, even achingly, aware of the beauty and sometimes absurdity of the natural and unnatural forms that surround us. He is awake to the experience of illusion and impermanence, loneliness and suffering. And always in these well-crafted works, where language performs at its highest level, he is awake to the possibilities of love, gratitude, redemption, and the importance of self-acceptance. With each elegant poem in Songs For A Summons, Guterson liberates our seeing, our senses, and beckons us to live more fully, more authentically, more deeply."-Charles Johnson, author of Middle Passage"--

Uniform Title

Poems. Selections

Alternative Title

Poems.

Subject

• POETRY / American / General
• HISTORY / United States / State & Local / General
• TRAVEL / United States / South / General
• American poetry

Genre/Form

Poetry

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

A test. -- Solitudes: Pond of the false prophet -- Entrance -- Group camping -- Three racoons -- Diagnosis -- Plea -- Mail -- Closed mill -- Pavers -- Inheritance -- Neighbors -- Teahouse -- The fire takes its second life from falling -- Winter solstice -- Sages -- Hiking partner -- Shooting a raccoon -- A walk -- Practice of the ordinary -- The great charm. -- Monologues: Mars : a summation -- Condemnation from a Buddhist -- Report -- Holistic practitioner : psoriasis -- Four notes to a follower -- No hunting : an explanation -- The procrastinator's logic -- The ancient mariner's retort -- Polonius to Laertes : an update -- Birthday card to a son -- Letter from my old friend the poet -- Psychiatrist's example -- Sunday morning monologue -- The diaspora of the poets : a lecture. -- Interruptions: April -- Coyotes calling -- Exciting the Bardos -- Dharma bum -- Tension of equipoise -- The approach to the pass -- Justification for idleness -- Barthes and Barth. -- Expanses: Flight -- What happens in Vegas -- Worn floor -- Bakery -- Fliers -- Canine epistemology -- The infant -- Mate -- Escape -- White firs -- Out of joint.

ISBN

• 9780988316690 (pbk.)
• 0988316692 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2013045679

OCLC

863198526

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library