Sleeping woman / Herbert Scott.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scott, Herbert, 1931-

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

88 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh : Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2005.

Summary:

A collection of poems by Herbert Scott.

Contents:

Invocation 11

Sleeping Woman 12

The Unforgiven 14

Mime 15

In a Field of Sunlight 16

Dream 17

Nude on a Kitchen Stool 18

Late Fall, Rain 19

Bees 20

November 21

Neighbor 22

Night Walking 23

And the Sleet Cometh Down 24

The Story of Bread 26

Night of the Fish 27

The Most Terrible and Beautiful Thing 28

Conversation 31

The Song the Stone Child Sings 32

Wolf 33

The Song the Burnt Child Sings 34

The Song the Suicide Sings 36

Mendelssohn at Midnight 37

The Father's Song 38

Games 39

The Mother's Last Song 40

She Dreams a Letter from Her Son 41

The Song the Old Woman Sings 42

The Air We Now Breathe 43

The Song the Minister Sings 44

Winter Day 45

The Song the Lost Children Sing 46

The Way We Are Now 47

The Song the Assassin Sings 48

Rain After Midnight 49

Gnomes 50

Bedtime Story 51

My Father's Fortune 55

Mother at the Mirror, 1939 56

Oklahoma Pastoral 57

My Father's Bulldogs 58

Marshmallows 61

Evening Dawn 62

Hearts 63

Farm Dogs 64

That Summer 65

The Death and Resurrection of Jesse James 66

Evening, Milking 69

To Death, For My Father 70

St. Petersburg, My Father Walks the Beach 71

Poem 72

Snowstorm on Mozart's Birthday 75

The Blue Turtle 76

In the Palm of Space 77

Poem 88.

Notes:

Poems.

ISBN:

0887484301

OCLC:

58834883