Why speak? : poems / Nathaniel Bellows.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bellows, Nathaniel.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

85 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : W.W. Norton, [2007]

Summary:

A debut collection, exhibiting exceptional narrative and lyrical gifts, that explores the realms of memory, human emotion, and the natural world. These layered, braided narratives combine images of landscape and nature, childhood memories and family history, evoked paintings and performances. Nathaniel Bellows's verse is intimate yet inviting, dark but hopeful: "I could not saw the fallen tree- not all / of it had fallen- because somehow each spring, / the rotted half still mysteriously bloomed."

Contents:

Alfalfa Farm 3

Russian Birch 5

The Good Shepherd 6

Removal 8

A Certain Dirge 10

Parts of Speech 11

At the House on the Lake 13

Horticultural 15

In Greater Detail 16

Some Traditions 18

Five Funerals 20

Elegy 25

Pangaea 26

Harm's Woods 28

Foaling 29

Plum Island 31

Quarry 32

Seldom Seen 24

Marked 36

Myopia 37

Five Paintings / Howard Pyle 43

"So the treasure was divided" 1905 43

"She drew her bridle, listening-there was no sound" 1905 44

"Then the real fight began" 1908 46

"Her head and shoulders hung over the space without" 1904 48

"He lost his hold and fell, taking me with him " 1909 50

At the Symphony 52

Music Lessons 54

Work 56

In the Museum 58

John Singer Sargent Murals, Boston Public Library 59

On Seeing Fox Hunt by Winslow Homer, After Many Years 61

Open Letter Re: The Good Fight 65

An Attempt 67

Vocations 69

Every Hour Here 70

On 9th Street 73

Ornithology 75

Edible Flowers 77

Liberty Island 80

Why Speak? 82.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (page 85).

ISBN:

9780393062403

0393062406

OCLC:

71369384