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Rafting : on the water table / poems by Susan Steger Welsh.
Van Pelt Library PS3573.E4956 R35 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Welsh, Susan Steger.
- Series:
- Minnesota voices project ; no. 96.
- Minnesota voices project ; no. 96
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 69 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis, MN : New Rivers Press, 2000.
- Summary:
- New poet Susan Steger Welsh finds poetry not only in the easy places ("To My Husband on our Anniversary"), but also in the unlikely ("In Defense of Semicolons"). These poems explore the implicit in our world, the common elements that nourish and connect us, things we may not understand until someone with great vision -- like Welsh -- shows us. The water table's subtle presence is everywhere in this book as the poet, with an impressive command of metaphor, compares buoyancy to wisdom, water to the inevitabilities of life.
- Contents:
- In Defense of Semicolons 3
- Swimming Lessons 4
- Empty Nest 7
- Spiders Keep House 8
- Atheist Madalyn Murray O'Hair May Never Come Back 10
- Still Standing 12
- Widow 13
- Great Blue Heron 14
- In a Motel in Custer, South Dakota 15
- The Best Thing about the Wind 16
- Regarding the Discovery of Two Planets 17
- Grammar in the Kingdom of God 18
- November Sleeping 20
- Implosion 23
- Swim the Night 25
- Visiting Aunt Dorothy on Her Birthday 26
- Sparrow 28
- At the Cemetery on the Twentieth Anniversary of My Mother's Death 29
- Conversations with My Mother 30
- What Happened at My Bird Feeder 31
- Neutrinos and the Unified Theory 32
- Laws of Falling Things 33
- The Delirium of Swiftness 34
- To My Husband on Our Anniversary 35
- Family Reunion 36
- Lifesaving 37
- Maternal Instinct 39
- In Certain Slavic Legends 41
- Over Greenland 42
- Rapid Eye Movement 45
- Audition for a Love Poem 48
- How Things Sound 49
- How Time Works 51
- The Patience of Grass 53
- Only All the Time 54
- Late June 55
- Say It Was a Dream the River Had 56
- A Poster in the Cloquet Forestry Center 59
- Long Division 60
- Going to the Car Wash Early, in a Fog 62
- What Appears Wanting 63
- Early Evening in the Kitchen of Love 64
- Prairie Meditations 66.
- ISBN:
- 0898232023
- OCLC:
- 44498856
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