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Swerving straight : poems : selected & new / Thomas Johnson.

LIBRA - Special PS3560.O38647 S94 1981 copy 2
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LIBRA - Special PS3560.O38647 S94 1981
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Johnson, Thomas, 1948-
Contributor:
Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Standardized Title:
Poems. Selections
Language:
English
Penn Provenance:
Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
Physical Description:
108 pages ; 24 cm
Place of Publication:
Ithaca, NY : Alembic Press, [1981]
Contents:
Physics of autobiography
Deepest April sky in memory
Looking for small
Instant
Dream of wholeness
There is a great fatigue ...
Ground Zero
Office of weights and measures
Giving in at last
Rightly, it would be morning
Dusk, Buffalo River
Some lines among ruins on family land
Night in April with crickets
Song for one voice in the Blue Ridge passes
Poem in two gestures
Obion at South Fork
Sundown, after furrowing
Walking with Buson to the river
Perpetual
Broke Creek : late November
Gambler
For a girl bicycliing in the rain
Best dance hall in Iuka, Mississippi
Considering the joys of uselessness
Amherst winter - inadian summer : Ithaca
Two dreams of flying
Radish
Brown-tailed moth
Small Japanese bowl
For a geetle on its back
Steam
Mildew
Old trawling net nailed on a lodge wall
Brief history of magnetism
Dandelions
Dogwood
Bicycle
Yellow cat
Transience
Directions
Homage to J.S. Bach
Apprentice's guide to taxidermy
Homage to Jean Follain
Gardens of our going
In the Washington National Forest
Light
Today, for hours ...
Harbinger
Big road
Oak
Voice in the street
Bus
To a stranger on the road
Ode to the bakeries
There are those with whom ...
Report from America
Color of longing
Half my voice
Asphalt
Ohio
Downpour
Rowboat
Today, I don't feel much ...
Red ink
Snail
White bread
In praise of the commonplace
In prase of spiders
Drifter
Kin
Some faces
from The manual of luminous being
Light : an informal study
Bit by bit
Whole shipment
News
Down behind this life
Provisions
Gray
Distracted
Larger-than-life
Throne of the toad
Snows, the hopeful governments
Wheat.
Notes:
750 copies.
ISBN:
0934184070
9780934184076
0934184089
9780934184083
OCLC:
7460491

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