The man who saws us in half : poems / Ron Houchin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Houchin, Ron.

Series:

Southern messenger poets

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

viii, 71 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2013]

Summary:

Through silence and song, death and rebirth, a sense of wonder pervades every minute of our lives. In The Man Who Saws Us in Half, Ron Houchin explores this idea from the first curiosities of childhood to the gradual skepticism that comes with age and the weight of practical concerns. In the whimsical poem "The Lion That Finds You Asleep in His Dream," the sleeping figure relives the magical allure of youth, offered both gratuitously and ubiquitously: "The moon's still high in its arc, / and you know / you spilled from this lion's heart." With his unique and colloquial voice, Houchin allows the reader to experience familiar subjects anew, to admire the surrounding world with rekindled appreciation and awe. Book jacket.

Contents:

January Night Testament 1

So Tired 2

The Green Snake 4

Summer Tenants 5

Interpretation of Silence 6

Katherine Skating the Ohio, 1916 7

String Theory 8

Reverence for Beds 9

The Good Earth 10

River Night 11

Body Farm 12

Lament of the Retired Coal Mine Canary 13

Tending the Fire 14

Glass and Water 15

The Coal Globe 16

Tender 17

In Praise of Comb-Overs 18

Lost in the Cemetery 20

Stray City Dog 21

My Father's House 22

Everything Is a Place 23

Why I Watch the National Geographic Channel 24

Snails in the Garden 25

Mermaid's Funeral 26

At the Casto Sleep Clinic, 1995 27

Reflections of the Shape Shifter 28

Hidden Places That Open Suddenly 30

The Intention of Trees 31

Thin Quarters 32

One Step Removed 33

Made You Look 34

The Man Who Saws Us in Half 35

Luuletaja 37

Frozen Light 38

The Lost Rhetoric of Memory 39

The Sudden Mind 40

Measuring the Moon 41

In a Dream of Standing in the Wings of a Reality TV Show 42

Out 43

In My Town: West Virginia 44

Epiphany in a Spring Field 45

Visible Songs of Appalachia 46

Séance 47

Washing Seven Plates 48

Night Without Dream, Morning Without Memory 49

Gravitas 50

Sleeping Among Horses 51

Between 52

The Dead 53

Summer Solstice Prayer, 2008 54

Lone Dogs 55

Laughter Fossils 56

Camel in the Rainforest, Giraffe in the Rockies 57

The Way the World Goes On 58

Every Day of the Dead 59

Crossing 60

Hymn to Her 61

Dream of Two Fields in Evening Rain 62

Winter Cellar 63

Your Christmas Present 64

In a Park, a Crow in Spring Rain 65

Wind on the River 66

Minimum 67

Young Scientist Learning Soft 69

In Mythic Times 70

The Lion That Finds You Asleep in His Dream 71.

Notes:

"LSU Press Paperback Original"--Title page verso.

ISBN:

9780807151112

0807151114

9780807151129

0807151122

9780807151136

0807151130

9780807151143

0807151149

OCLC:

824501983