From whence : poems / Michael Chitwood.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chitwood, Michael.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

x, 62 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2007]

Summary:

The threshold-the moment when a situation or a person is transformed into something new, for either good or ill-is the central image of From Whence. In many of these lyric poems, the moment of change either is in sharp focus or is exerting its gravitational pull on the poem. It could be the instant when a rock being held up on a frozen pond melts through and makes its plunge, or that dizzying moment when a child realizes that his childhood is over forever. It is leaving a church revival, finding snow outside, and seeing that "Each flake, each one individual we knew, / disappeared into all the others / and made a place for the moonlight to rest." In these moments are loss and newfound joy.

Contents:

Threshold

Chalk 3

The Garden 4

Acolyte 5

The Drawing 6

Music Lesson 7

Organist 8

Duty and History 9

Revival 10

Science or History, I Forget Which 11

Correspondence 12

Grammar 13

Assistant 14

Basement Barber 16

Division 17

The Round, Turning World 18

Threshold 20

Your Shade on Your Right Hand

The Puzzles 23

His Gratitude 24

Luke's Mom 25

Praise 26

The One Day 27

Telling It 28

The Inheritance: A Lamentation 30

Good Heart 34

Skinning 35

Check-Up 36

Digging

Morning Walk, Holden Beach 39

Quarters, Dimes, Nickels 40

The Seasons Come and the Seasons Keep Coming 41

Virginia History 42

At the Wilco with Some Founding Fathers 44

Talc like Dust 45

Men Throwing Bricks 46

Easy Street, Continental Homes, Luck, the Destination of Southern Conversation, and Dust 47

Dominion 50

Oscillating Fan 51

The Small-Town Voice of God 52

After Ice and Snow 53

Baptist 54

The Wedding at Cana 55

Out Here 56

Digging 57

Getting Turned Around in Point Pleasant Where the Kanawha and Ohio Rivers Converge 58

Where We Go When We Die 60

Live 61

From Whence 62.

ISBN:

0807132241

9780807132241

OCLC:

69792143