Oh how can I keep on singing? : voices of pioneer women / poems by Jana Harris.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Harris, Jana, 1947- author.

Contributor:

• Ontario Review Press, publisher.
• George Braziller, Inc., distributor.
• Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
• Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)
• Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, former owner.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Frontier and pioneer life--Poetry.
• Frontier and pioneer life.
• Women pioneers.
• Washington (State).
• Women pioneers--Poetry.
• Washington (State)--Poetry.

Genre:

• Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

• Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
• Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Physical Description:

10 unnumbered pages, 102 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm

Distribution:

New York : Distributed by George Braziller, Inc., 60 Madison Ave.

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Ontario Review Press, [1993]

Summary:

Collection of poems by the author about the history of Washington State and the lives of pioneer women.

Contents:

• Cattle-Killing Winter
• Avalanche
• Check-a-ma-poo
• Dutch Jake's Hell-Time Calendar
• How Do You Know Your Sin and Misery?
• Traveling School Mistress
• Salmon City Flood
• This New Life
• Fever
• Mary Malott, Counting Her Blessings
• The Laundress by the Lake
• Snow Bites
• Remembering the Noise Fast Water Makes
• My Brothers Worked the Ranch, I Got the Mail Route
• Letter from the Mines
• The First Law of Heaven
• Haying on the Similkameen
• Lights in the Firmament
• Monday
• Tuesday
• The Needlecraft of Sarah "The Widow" Jones
• Leaving in the Morning
• Ethel & Mary Ellen Playing by the Log Jamb
• In Answer to the Question
• The Laying-Out
• Committing the Landscape to Memory
• Photograph of My Hat Shop and the Horse I Used to Ride
• Mourning Picture.

Local Notes:

• Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2016 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
• Schimmel Collection copy has folded paper sheet with typescript contents list tipped in.

ISBN:

• 0865380791
• 9780865380790

OCLC:

28064115