Another day on earth / Timothy Dekin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dekin, Timothy.

Language:

English

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

67 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Evanston, Ill. : TriQuarterly Books, 2002.

Summary:

After many years of honing his craft, Timothy Dekin fashioned a thoroughly contemporary style based on the pentameter line and the song forms of the English Renaissance poets. His formal mastery and control of lines are a rarity in modern American poetry. The compelling immediacy of his confessional tone and his range of feeling -- from thoughts on mortality and self-worth, struggles with alcoholism, failings of family love, to a Buddhist-like oneness with nature -- make for a striking combination. One moment Dekin confronts his unloving father, and in the next, speaks from a peaceful California setting where he is about to learn a lesson in the Zen of fly-fishing. This collection of poems was painstakingly assembled a short time before the author's death. It emerges as a work of unusual emotional and spiritual clarity and beauty.

Contents:

It Used to Be 3

The Errand 6

Aunt Mary 8

The Plague 14

Juvenile Hall Teacher 16

Who Could Ask for Anything More? 18

Our Lady of Soledad 19

Holly's First Meeting 21

Imagine 24

Occasional Uncles: A Sequence 25

1. Journal Entry: May 1

2. Do We Belong Together?

3. It Is

4. Flight

5. Melancholy

Fragment

7. Letter Home

8. Her Answer

9. Occasional Uncles

10. Sunday, Visiting Day

Opening Day 36

Lt. Colonel Dekin, Squadron Commander, 1944 38

White Christmas 42

The Condolence 45

Community Hospital 47

Elegy at Donner Hot Springs 48

At the Family Plot 52

King Salmon in the Midwest 53

Woodmanship 56

Another Day on Earth 66.

ISBN:

0810151197

0810151200

OCLC:

48451194