I'm here because I lost my way : poems / by Neil Shepard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shepard, Neil, 1951-

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

ix, 108 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : Mid-List Press, [1998]

Contents:

Tropical Moment 1

White Cloud Receding

Going Down to Moses 5

Learning to Ride the Train 7

Amusement Park: Early History of the Writer 9

December Myth 11

On the Coldest Day of November 12

The Light Leap of the Dead 14

White Cloud Receding 16

After You Left, I Thought of Something Else I Wanted

After You Left, I Thought of Something Else I Wanted 23

Yesterday's News 25

Easter Lights 27

Pain Produces Logic, Which Is Very Bad for You 29

Green 30

Chameleon 32

Ogunquit 34

One Peoples 36

Moon in Fog 39

Dramatics 40

Tremor

The News 43

The Fountain 44

Tremor 46

Sailor on Leave Suffocates in Sand 49

Nightshift at the Halfway House 51

Listening to Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings 53

Late Correspondence 56

I'm Here Because I Lost My Way

I'm Here Because I Lost My Way 61

Birdsongs at the Edge of Vanishing 62

Wild Edibles 65

November Oracle 66

Lake Katherine 68

Mule Deer in the Pecos Wilderness 69

Comanche Peak 70

Last Naturalist 71

Crows 72

Dreamless Songs

Dreamless Songs 75

Ode to a Black Bug That Will Not Die 82

God Is a Door 84

Epistrophy 86

Music Lesson 88

Tropical Moment

Long Distance 93

Equator Daze 95

Lush Life 96

Wake Up Laughing 98

Marquesas 100

Following in the Footsteps of Melville 103

Ghost Talk 106.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (page 106).

ISBN:

0922811385

9780922811380

OCLC:

39733518