Benchmarks : new and selected poems 1963-2013 / by Richard Dauenhauer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dauenhauer, Richard.

Series:

University of Alaska Press - The Alaska Literary Series

Alaska literary series

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (264 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Fairbanks : University of Alaska Press, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Russian, German, Tlingit. Like the languages he translates, Richard Dauenhauer's poetry offers unexpected surprises. A prolific translator who also works in Finnish, Swedish, and classical Greek, he has a poetic command of language that has earned him wide recognition over fifty years of published work. Benchmarks spans these decades of writing, and each poem contained within marks a certain place in time and space, like a surveyor's benchmark. The poems play with language while focusing on the land and people of Alaska. And like Alaska itself, this book offers a variety of delights-readers wi.

Contents:

Acknowledgments; New Poems, Part One: The Genealogy of Beer; In Praise of the Neolithic; The Genealogy of Beer (A Blend of Beck's and Guinness Stout); Loving in the Autumn Rain; Homeric Erotica; Anna (Feast of the Dormition of Saint Anne, July 25/August 8); Anniversary Poem (1988); Lunchtime at Taguchi's (An idyll for Sam and the Gang); Rissa in the Rain; Mother's Day 1988; Seed Dispersal (Juneau, Alaska, July 20, 1988); Dominic's Poem; Chemawa School Cemetery (Founded 1886); August Afternoon at Helle's Pool, Vancouver, Washington; Jamie, Racing Off; Soccer Squad.

Red Dogs and OnionsTumor (1996); Croquet, Nickerson Pitch; Breakfast at Grandma Nora's; The Facts of Life; Image of Nora, Rendering Seal Oil; Translating Pasternak; Awaiting Discharge; Based, of course, on hearsay; Epiphany 2008; Sensory Overload (Viewing the Buddhist Tapestries at the Sacred Arts of Bhutan Exhibit, Honolulu Academy of Arts, April 2008); Waikiki, the Breakers; Sonnet on National Security in the Bush-Cheney Reign (Lines Disclosed in a Doctor's Waiting Room); After Finishing an Activities Report for the Dean; Dating Myself.

Thoughts after Working on Salmon Eggs from our GrandsonForwarding John Updike's "Baseball" on The Writer's Almanac, June 22, 2009; Unfinished Business; Triptych: Easter 2011; Joyriding; Gardening with Elijah; Meditation on Dandelionsin Morning Sunlight; New Poems, Part Two: Juneau Sketches; Daanaawaak / Silver Dollar Eye: Supermarket Satori; Phenomenology of Moss; Shark Fins; Easter Monday; Song Sparrow; Ear-shattering; July 5, 2009; Sunrise; Daybreak; Through Study Window; Iambics for the Southeast Alaska Regional Cross-Country Meet September 20, 2003; Parody of Spring; View of Auke Lake.

Fleet of Mountain PeaksAll Saints Day (November 1, 2006); November 10; Gift of Bohemian Waxwings; Winter Promise; New Poems, Part Three: Congestive Heart Failure: Letting Go; Landscapes of the Heart; A Meditation: Against the Dying of the Light; A Formal Elegy (Thinking of Dylan Thomas); New Poems, Part Four: Excerpts from the Cycle Lacrimosa: The Social Web of Cancer; Homage to Po Chü-i; Donuts; Tough Guy; Approaching Winter Solstice; Nunc Dimittis; Remembering Ron; Atonement 2009; Basho: Open Road; New Poems, Part Five: Harvesting; First Day of Fall; Foraging; Harvesting Potatoes.

Digging SpudsOctober Rain; The Tides Forecasting Winter; Potatoes, 2003; Falling in the Garden; Life Support; Harvest Festival; Every Garden Grows One; Selected Poems, Part One:Poems from Little Magazines,1963-1969; The Pall Bearers; Ukrainian Flirtation Dance; At the Spring: Glasby Pond, Fall 1963; Uncle Martin, 1963; Tootsie; Thought and Memory: Finland, Summer 1963; Neva Farm (Finland, 1963); Berrying (Finland, 1963); Ilmatar: Finland, 1966; Full Moon: Finland, 1966; Housewife (Finland, 1967).

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781602232105

1602232105

OCLC:

893740698