All the great territories / Matthew Wimberley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wimberley, Matthew, 1989- author.

Series:

Crab Orchard award series in poetry

Crab Orchard series in poetry

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

viii, 71 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Carbondale : Crab Orchard Review & Southern Illinois University Press, [2020]

Summary:

"An elegy to a father, Matthew Wimberley's "All the Great Territories" explores both the relationship between a child and a parent and the landscape of southern Appalachia"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Black Mountains p. 3

Homily p. 4

Elegy Written in Dust Kicked Up along a Back Road p. 5

In the Morning, the Spirit Begins to Speak p. 8

The Snow Speaks Its Own Name p. 10

Possum p. 12

Phenology p. 14

Husk p. 16

On Trial in the Court of Nature p. 18

To a Stranger Lost in the Country p. 19

All the Great Territories p. 26

Incineration p. 31

Holding My Father p. 33

Words for My Father from Salmon, Idaho p. 34

Panloum Holding an Extinct Bird p. 35

Epitaph p. 36

Infinity on the Glass p. 39

Emblem for Death Carved into a Tree p. 41

Cold Light p. 43

At Night p. 47

Silent Woods p. 48

Ghazal Returning from Exile by the Light of a County Fair p. 51

Though He Is Gone, I Carry Him Down from the Mountain p. 54

Myth p. 57

Here on Earth, 1994 p. 59

Absence p. 60

In Lieu of Flowers p. 61

Elegy Near Little Black Pine Rough p. 64

The Celebrated Colors of the Local Sunsets p. 65.

Other Format:

Online version: Wimberley, Matthew, 1989- All the great territories

ISBN:

9780809337736

0809337738

OCLC:

1123187362