Poetry comes up where it can : an anthology : poems from the Amicus journal, 1990-2000 / edited by Brian Swann ; foreword by Mary Oliver.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Swann, Brian.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nature--Poetry.

Nature.

American poetry--20th century.

American poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xix, 168 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, [2000]

Summary:

Walk with this book to find some of the unexpected places where poetry can flourish. Discover poetry growing "where it can" in the infinite and in the microscopic, from the Milky Way to a snowflake's minute structures. Find it in a mountain pass or in the gritty sunlight of New York. Discover a poem embodied by the ferocious bulk of a "hunger-hearted" grizzly or in wilderness that is "lovely because it is empty."

The poems in this anthology first appeared in The Amicus Journal, the quarterly publication of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). Selected by the journal's poetry editor, Brian Swann, they represent a broad array of responses to the natural world--from warning to celebration--by some of our most distinguished poets, including Wendell Berry, Michael Dorris, Denise Levertov, Mary Oliver, Pattiann Rogers, and William Stafford. All grapple with issues of nature and the environment from the perspective of the final decade of the millennium and remind us that we can be dazzled both by nature and by the poetry that explores the natural world.

Contents:

Antler

Star-Struck Utopias of 2000 3

Thoughts Breathing in a Blizzard 4

/ Alison Apotheker

Burning Bush (Dictamnus Albus) 6

/ Homero Aridjis

Borders, Cages and Walls 7

Rivers 8

/ Denise Y. Arnold

Song to the Alpaca 10

/ Robin Becker

Near Sheridan 11

/ Ted Benttinen

Maritime Pastoral 12

/ Bruce Berger

Photo Safari 13

/ Wendell Berry

Getting Away: Verses and Choruses for Various Voices 14

Let Us Pledge 16

The Mad Farmer, Flying the Flag of Rough Branch, Secedes from the Union 17

The Old Man Climbs a Tree 19

/ James Bertolino

See Willow 21

Snail River 22

/ Sallie Bingham

Spring House 23

/ Steven Blevins

New York 24

/ Philip Booth

Bee 25

Within 26

/ Robert Bringhurst

From Conversations With A Toad 27

From Dogen 28

/ Joseph Bruchac

Spring Peepers 29

/ Hayden Carruth

The Soft Time of the Year 30

/ Robin S. Chapman

Your Face Here 31

/ Peter Cooley

The Secret 32

/ W. S. Di Piero

Untitled 33

/ Sharon Dolin

My Soul's Wardrobe 34

/ Michael Dorris

Prey 35

/ Constance Egemo

Silver Poplar at Sunrise 36

/ Richard Elman

October Observed, Hudson Falls, New York: In Bill's Back Yard 37

/ Charles Fishman

Whapmagoostui 38

/ Brendan Galvin

Bullfrog 40

An Inside Job 42

The Mail from Right Here 44

Returning a Lawn to the Field It Was 45

/ Kenneth Gangemi

Notes of a Moonwatcher 46

/ Faye George

Shagbark 48

Wilderness 49

/ Eamon Grennan

Shoreline After Storm 50

/ Aimee Grunberger

The Old Road 51

Swimming Upstream 52

/ John Haines

Eclipse 53

Roadside Weeds 54

Yeti 55

/ Brian Henry

Moraine Lake 57

/ William Heyen

Crane in Reeds 58

Derailment 59

Emancipation Proclamation 60

Windfall 61

/ Patricia Hooper

August 62

/ Ben Howard

River Song 63

The River's Answer 64

/ Coral Hull

Flying Kangaroos 65

/ David Ignatow

Suburbia 66

/ Mark Irwin

Give 67

A Tree 68

/ George Keithley

First Morning 70

/ Maurice Kenny

Wild Flower 72

/ Ursula K. Le Guin

Riding on the "Coast Starlight" 73

/ Denise Levertov

Protesting at the Nuclear Test Site 74

The Reminder 75

A Wren 76

/ William Matthews

Names 77

/ James C. McCullagh

Mermaid's Song 79

/ Carrington McDuffie

Finally the Rain 80

/ Roger Mitchell

It 81

North 82

Out Here 84

/ Gary Paul Nabhan

Coming Out on Solid Ground After the Ice Age 85

/ Duane Niatum

In the Labyrinth of Elements 86

Rufous Hummingbird 87

The Salmon 88

Stones Speak of the Earthless Sky 89

/ John O'Brien

Revelation on a Summer Walk 90

/ Mary Oliver

At the Shore 91

Design 92

The Fox 94

The Lark's Nest 95

Poem 12 from "West Wind" 96

Rice 97

Snapshots 98

Waking on a Summer Morning 99

Wings 100

/ Simon J. Ortiz

Look to the Mountain 101

/ John Peck

Mount Bromley Hymn 103

Woods Burial 104

/ Jim Peterson

Stand Still 105

/ Paul Petrie

The Indoor Cat 106

/ Jarold Ramsey

Comet and Treefrog 107

Power Quest, Sooke Park 108

/ Pattiann Rogers

Into the Light 109

The Kingdom of Heaven 111

Opus from Space 113

/ Reg Saner

Autumn Aspens: Cumbres Pass 155

Camping Clean 116

Desert Wisdom 117

Indian Peaks, Colorado 118

Morning Snowfield 119

Rain Near Heart Lake 120

Report to the Stockholders 121

Sierra Cup 122

This Grizzly 123

Waking at the Middle of Nowhere 125

/ Susan Schaeffer

The Dog 126

/ Tom Sexton

Seal Island 128

Skimming the Ice 129

/ Peggy Shumaker

Ajo Lily 130

/ Joan I. Siegel

Drought 132

How the Tortoise Knew It Was Her Time 133

Wild Hyacinth 134

/ John Smelcer

Bonanza Creek 135

My Indian Grandmother Speaks to Animals 136

Nunyae Senk'aaze [Animal Spirits] 137

/ Katherine Soniat

Dog Days 138

/ Michael Spence

The Fig Curtain of Atherton 140

/ Matthew J. Spireng

Snowy Owl 141

/ William Stafford

Gulls at Cannon Beach 142

/ Martin Steingesser

Spring Forward 143

/ Dabney Stuart

Where the Deer Go 144

/ Brian Swann

Flying from the Center 145

The Land at the World's End 146

Old Song of the Musk Ox People 147

Walking at Night 149

/ Roberta Swann

Eft 150

/ Joan Swift

Anthuriums, Pahoa 151

Steelhead in the Whitehorse Rearing Pond 152

Wild Salmon: Stillaguamish Tribal Hatchery 153

/ David Wagoner

Making Camp 154

/ R. Weiss, T. Weiss

The Lost Wood 156

/ Nancy Willard

Sand Shark 158.

ISBN:

0874806445

OCLC:

42603433