Dirt road home : poems / by Cheryl Savageau.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Savageau, Cheryl, 1950-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Collections.

Autographs (Provenance)

Physical Description:

92 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Willimantic, CT : Curbstone Press, 1995.

Summary:

"Cheryl Savageau writes of poverty, mixed ancestry, nature, and family in poems that are simultaneously tough and tender, and salted with a rich folk humor from her Abenaki and French Canadian ancestry."--From publisher's website.

Contents:

Introduction / Joseph Bruchac

Henri Toussaints

Grandmother

Trees

Looking for Indians

Ol' Crazy Baker

At the fireworks

Gifts

Just his eyes

What the boy said

At the A & W

Thorns

Harsh words

Glissando

French girls are fast

Card shark

Barbie

Like a good joke : grandma at ninety

Leah

First grade

standing in the hall

Hanging clothes in the sun

At fifteen, Louise kills chickens

Logic problem

Department of Labor haiku

Why they do it

Bride

Infant of Prague

Cr©®che

The sound of my mother singing

What I save

Equinox : the goldfinch

Trickery : a May poem

Summer solstice

Bones

a city poem

Blessings

The sweet and vinegary taste

Too'kay

After hours

Comes down like milk

Night

Menora

(Cont.) Mother night : full moon past solstice

Genealogy

Roseanna

After listening to a reading of romantic poems about Columbus : one more thought

Survival

Medicine woman

To human skin

At the pow wow

Like the trails of Ndakinna

All night she dreams.

Other Format:

Online version: Savageau, Cheryl, 1950- Dirt road home.

ISBN:

1880684306

9781880684306

OCLC:

31377922