The long silence of the Mohawk carpet smokestacks : poems / by Stephen Haven.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Haven, Stephen.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

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

Physical Description:

viii, 70 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Albuquerque, NM : West End Press, 2004.

Summary:

These brilliantly descriptive poems begin where the author did, in the town of Amsterdam, New York, along the Mohawk River, among hard childhood memories of a factory town beginning to shut down. Along with the trails through the industrial wilderness, the river, the bars, and the young poet's preparations for escape, we see his preacher father and the tragedy-laden family life that finally yields him up. Later the poet pauses to treat another kind of New England background, the "Puritan graveyard" of the seventeenth century, imaginatively recreating the distant ghosts that still enter his thoughts in Provincetown at the Millennium. Finally, in the section "Homework," his thoughts return to his birthplace, as he seeks to reconcile his memories of home with his departure and survival.

Contents:

The Mohawk

Where Young Boys Sit Along the Flood Wall

The Chuctanunda

Reverend

Three Friends

Francesca

Snow, North Country

Change of Shift

Effluvium

Edge of a Watershed

The Shore

The Drift of It

Ecclesiastes

Light on the Sound

The Flounder

The Further Shore: Puritan Graveyard

The Confession of Thomas Granger

First Minister, Plymouth, Mass.: The Rev. John Lyford

Creasy Mather, Dead at Sea

Anne Hutchinson to the Minister's Daughter

American Suicide: Mrs. William Bradford

At the Millennium

Homework

Homework in the Rectory

Fifteen-Year Blow

For My Brother's Decision to Join the Navy

Familial

Twinning

The Sense of Calm Hours

Silhouette

Centennial

Walker Evans Photograph: Factory Street, Amsterdam, New York, 1930

Heritage

The Choirmaster.

Other Format:

Online version: Haven, Stephen. Long silence of the Mohawk carpet smokestacks.

ISBN:

0970534493

9780970534491

OCLC:

55039533