The track the whales make : new and selected poems / Marjorie Saiser ; introduction by Ted Kooser.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Saiser, Marjorie, author.

Contributor:

Kooser, Ted, writer of introduction.

Series:

Ted Kooser contemporary poetry

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xiv, 181 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2021]

Summary:

"Dealing with all the ways love goes right and wrong, Marjorie Saiser honors the challenges of holding firm to who we really are as well as our connections to the natural world"-- Provided by publisher.

"Marjorie Saiser's strong, clear language makes the reader feel at home in her poems. Dealing with all the ways love goes right and wrong, this collection honors the challenges of holding firm to who we really are, as well as our connections to the natural world.The Track the Whales Make includes poems from Saiser's seven previous books, along with new ones. Her poetry originates from the everyday things we might overlook in the hurry of our daily routines, giving us a chance to stop and appreciate the little things, while wrapped in her comforting diction. Because the poems come from ordinary life, there is humor alongside happiness and sadness, the mixed bag we survive or create, day by day"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: I Could Taste It: New Poems

The Shirt I Would Have Bought You

Sometimes I Remember to Watch

When You Write the Story

We Wait for the Trogon

So Bad I Could Taste It

I Had a Marriage in Those Days

What I Shouted and He Shouted

Charmed by the Dirt Road

To the Cattle in the Dream

The Moon Is a Swan

This Is How I Bow Down in Homage

Kindness Scraped Up the Money

It's a Small Breath

Not Enough Space in Storage Device

Hope Springs

From Learning to Swim 2019 Weren't We Beautiful

I Save My Love

Every Last Thing Is Transitory

Plastic Bag on the Lawn

Edith Porath Nelsen, You Signed Your Quilt

After the Divorce the Soccer Game

What She Taught Me

To the Author I'm Reading at Night

This Year I Did Not

This Is the Photo of My Father Before

He Taught Me to Drive

I Pretend I Can Remember

The One with Violets in Her Lap

For the Record

The Citrus Thief

Insomnia Is a Streetlight

From The Woman in the Moon 2018

The Nobody Bird

My Love With His Saw Has Taken the Cedar Down

When Life Seems a To-Do List

Each Wrong Choice Was a Horse I Saddled

What I Think My Real Self Likes

My Mother the Child

What He Needed

Final Shirt

Despair Woke Me

Ah, Charles, If You Could Have

What Did You Think Love Would Be?

About That Smart Thinly Veiled Stuff

My Daughter Tells Me She Loves Me

Green Ash

My Notes in Margins

From / Have Nothing to Say about Fire 2016

The Track the Whales Make

She Gives Me the Watch Off Her Arm

The Story, Part of It

How I Left You

Bad News, Good News

Thanksgiving for Two

We Disagree

Let Me Think of the Frost That Will Crack Our Bones

Draw What Is There

Those Pieces We Carry

What I Think My Father Loved

It Does Not Have to Be Worth the Dying

Last Day of Kindergarten

For My Daughter

From Losing the Ring in the River 2013

Clara Says I Do

Clara Loses the Ring

When I Have Hurt Him as Much as I Can

Potato Soup

I Was New and Shiny

Playing My Cards

Let Me Be the First Snake of Spring

To the Moon in the Morning

Note to My Father After All These Years

I Leaned in Close

Take, Eat; This Is My Body

You and I, the Cranes, the River

From Beside You at the Stoplight 2010

Pulling Up Beside My Husband at the Stoplight in Weekends, Sleeping In

Even the Alphabet

On the Road

Template

I Didn't Know I Loved

Stand-in

She Was Perhaps Dead

Labor

Textile

For My Body

I Want to Be a Man

You Can't Say

Mammogram

You Wonder Why We Don't Get Along

Her Kid Brother Ran Beside the Car

We Visit the Homestead

One-Finger Wave

From Lost in Seward County 2001

The Sisters Play Canasta in a Snowstorm

Overheard at the Cafe

Otto

As Long as Someone Remembers

Summer, Striking

You Gave Me a Typewriter

Lying on the Driveway, Studying Stars

Holed Up in Valentine, Nebraska

Prairie Pretends to Be Mild

The Muse Is a Little Girl

Night Flight

From Bones of a Very Fine Hand 1999

Resurrection

The Green Coat

Keeping My Mother Warm

Saying Yes on the Road

Perfume Counter, Dillard's

The World Was Not Enough

Loving Her in the Mountains

I Let My Daughter Down

Cutting My Hair

Washing the Walls

Taking the Baby to the Marsh

Shopping

Storm at Night

I Want to Create

The Last Thing He Said.

ISBN:

9781496228123

149622812X

OCLC:

1245249145