The water carrier / by Steve Straight.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Straight, Steve, 1954-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

New England--Poetry.

New England.

City and town life--Poetry.

City and town life.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

78 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Willimantic, CT : Curbstone Press, 2002.

Summary:

Steve Straight's skillfully crafted poems cover a wide range of topics-love, marriage, family, work, and class issues. Not since E. A. Robinson has anyone captured the essence of the New England town with such keen observation. What gives this volume its distinctive voice is a Buddhist calm, tinged with irony and humor. Steve Straight touches the ordinary things of life with a magical whimsy and a delightful self-deprecating humor.

Marketing Plans:

A New England Tour: Manchester (CT), Hartford, New London, Boston, Amherst, and The Sunken Garden Festival in Farmington, Connecticut on August 21, 2001.

Contents:

The water carrier

Haiku for Manchester

The Cape Cod house

At the mill

Hobby

At Spike's garage

Green card

How they got here

Freewrite

At the exam, reading

What teachers dream

The great path

Icara.

The deepest breath

Something about my grandfather

Leftovers

Yesterday's

Harvest

The art of dreaming

While sorting books

I learn to accept a certain amount of melancholy

Touch

The surprise

The dead battery

Encounter in June

Bird stories

Ghost suit

Lesson

Cory Cove

Captain Crunch

Last tack in jewel

Bobbing for order

Littering

On hearing that someone built a house on Nantucket Island for 7.9 million dollars and then razed it To build one they liked better

Therapy

The tail

Saving the world

Song of the canaries

Last summer

Poet town.

ISBN:

1880684837

OCLC:

48140592