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Because the light will not forgive me : essays from a poet / Shaun T. Griffin ; Illustrations by Ismael García Santillanes.
Van Pelt Library PN6110.P6 G75 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Griffin, Shaun T. (Shaun Timothy), 1953- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Griffin, Shaun T. (Shaun Timothy), 1953---Friends and associates.
- Griffin, Shaun T.
- Griffin, Shaun T. (Shaun Timothy), 1953-.
- Poetry of places.
- Poets--Biography.
- Poets.
- Friends and associates.
- Poetry in prisons.
- Friendship.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 247 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Reno ; Las Vegas : University of Nevada Press, [2019]
- Summary:
- "This is a book of essays about the American West, about poets and poetry, and about looking beyond our borders for reconciliation and lessons about how we might address similar issues at home."--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Dressing for fire
- Snowalking
- Walking into the desert
- Letter from the Blackstone River : under fog with the porcupine caribou
- Minot, North Dakota : when the sky begins to unravel
- Walden Pond in the desert
- Because the land is so bare : the poetry of Joanne de Longchamps
- Adrian C. Louis and the fire water world
- The desert outside : thinking about Richard Shelton
- Most of what I believe was found in poetry's ancient hands
- My journey to Hayden Carruth : falling down to understand
- From sorrow's well : on Hayden Carruth's resolute poetics
- Before I knew her mind : a dream of Carolyn Kizer
- If I had wheels or love
- From the ash of human feeling : teaching poetry behind the fence
- Looking for William Stafford on the yard
- The magnetic pull in a poem
- Sing, before the long silence returns
- What border to cross?
- A poet returns to Ireland
- In the library of chile pickers, fishermen, and Vicente's stone
- Below swifts in the Albayzón
- Fourteen days in South Africa ; healing and contradiction at Land's End
- Letter from Zimbabwe
- Fadhil in the new world : how humor saved an Iraqi poet
- Trying to cross the island between us
- Without a way home.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Griffin, Shaun T. (Shaun Timothy), 1953- Because the light will not forgive me.
- ISBN:
- 9781948908122
- 1948908123
- OCLC:
- 1073033196
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