Walking on darkness / by Peter Dale Scott.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scott, Peter Dale, author.

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Physical Description:

vii, 85 pages ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

Rhinebeck, NY : Sheep Meadow Press, [2016]

Contents:

Before Reading This Book 3

Cloud-Rich 4

Language Death 5

An Old Man Out After Breakfast 9

To My Wife Ronna 11

Tavern Underworld 17

Wild Man in the Bathroom Mirror 21

Appearances 22

The Rest of This Poem Is Not In Words 27

Greek Theater 28

Donna Oscura 36

Finchity 42

Breakfast Window 43

Chainsaw Dhamma 45

A Prayer for My Granddaughter 46

Tasting and Seeing 48

Another Road 51

The Road to Death Valley from Lone Pine 55

Translations

Du Fu: Spring Vista 56

Du Fu: Autumn Meditation 57

Albrecht Haushofer: Guilt 59

Schuld 59

Zbigniew Herbert: Pebble 61

The Space Between 64

Googling for Norbert 66

Berkeley Oaks 69

At the Academic Memorial Service 70

Walking on the Darkness 71

At Angkor Wat 72

Jerusalem 74

Haiku

To My Daughter Cassie Scott in Toronto 77

Old Cherry Tree on Campus 77

I Return to a Late Winter in North Hatley, Quebec 77

In Memory of My Dead Wife, I Embrace an Old Sycamore 77

Gravity's Paradox 78

Where We Are 78

Who We Are 78

Above the Sierra 78

Re-Entry 79

Movie Premiere 80.

ISBN:

9781937679644

1937679640

OCLC:

940455340