Sam's Book.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ray, David

Series:

Wesleyan poetry.

Wesleyan poetry

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--20th century.

American poetry.

American literature--20th century.

American literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Middletown : Wesleyan University Press, 1987.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Eloquent and accessible poems commemorating the ""stunning blast"" of loss

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Praying for Signs; The Snapshots; Teaching; In the Gallery Room; Son; The Apple That Fills the Room; For Samuel Cyrus Ray 6/6/65; At the Washing of My Son; The Shoelaces; A Polaroid on the Porch; Calabria; In Greece; The Temple at Paestum; In the Evening; For My Son; Innocents Abroad; Statues; The Iowa Farmhouse; The Old Days; The Night Sam and Wes Stayed in Their Own Hotel Room; The Father; A Visit to Amana; Thanksgiving in Sioux City; The Visit; How to Be Loved; Ropewalk; When My Children Left for the Alps; The Witness; End of the Road

Thanks, Robert FrostOn the Photograph ""Yarn Mill,"" by Lewis W. Hine; Scroll; Burial; Treasuring the Snapshot; Neighbors; Mom; Not at All; In the Third Month; Ghosts; At the Opera; First Snow; Sam; A Plastic Cube; Thanksgiving 1984; The Weeping Session in Italy; Brief Song; Haiku; The Birth of Woe; Beads, Pony, Prayer; The Question; Between Alp and Sea; Regrets; The Search; In the Children's Library; Writing; Bhopal; The Parting; And April Arrives; To Sam; Tricks of the Mind; Another Trick of the Mind; The Cypress Root; The Return; The Petrified Forest

Notes:

Preliminaries omitted.

ISBN:

9786613409959

9781283409957

128340995X

9780819572950

0819572950

OCLC:

774394007