The Shape Of the Journey : New and Collected Poems

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harrison, Jim

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--20th century.

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Port Townsend : Copper Canyon Press, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

An authoritative, best-selling edition of poetry by acclaimed novelist--now available in paper.

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Introduction; PLAIN SONG (1965); Poem; Sketch for a Job-Application Blank; David; Exercise; A Sequence of Women; Northern Michigan; Returning at Night; Fair/Boy Christian Takes a Break; Morning; Kinship; February Suite; Traverse City Zoo; Reverie; Fox Farm; Nightmare; Credo, After E.P.; Dusk; Lisle's River; Three Night Songs; Cardinal; "This is cold salt...,"; John Severin Walgren, 1874-1962; Garden; Horse; Malediction; Word Drunk; Young Bull; Park at Night; Going Back; Hitchhiking; Sound; Dead Deer; Li Ho; Complaint; Return; LOCATIONS (1968)

WalkingSuite to Fathers; Suite to Appleness; The Sign; War Suite; American Girl; Lullaby for a Daughter; Sequence; Cold August; Night in Boston; February Swans; Thin Ice; Natural World; Moving; White; After the Anonymous Swedish; Dawn Whiskey; Legenda; A Year's Changes; Locations; OUTLYER & GHAZALS (1971); In Interims: Outlyer; Trader; Hospital; Cowgirl; Drinking Song; Awake; Ghazals: I-LXV; Notes on the Ghazals; LETTERS TO YESENIN (1973); Letters: 1-30; Postscript; A Last Ghazal; A Domestic Poem for Portia; Missy 1966-1971; Four Matrices; North American Image Cycle; RETURNING TO EARTH (1977)

Returning to Earthfrom SELECTED & NEW POEMS (1982); Not Writing My Name; Frog; Rooster; Epithalamium; A Redolence for Nims; Followers; My First Day As a Painter; Waiting; Noon; Birthday; Clear Water 3; Dōgen's Dream; Weeping; The Chatham Ghazal; Marriage Ghazal; March Walk; The Woman from Spiritwood; Gathering April; Walter of Battersea; After Reading Takahashi; THE THEORY & PRACTICE OF RIVERS & NEW POEMS (1985, 1989); The Theory and Practice of Rivers; Kobun; Looking Forward to Age; Homily; Southern Cross; Sullivan Poem; Horse; Cobra; Porpoise; The Brand New Statue of Liberty

The Times AtlasNew Love; What He Said When I Was Eleven; Acting; My Friend the Bear; Cabin Poem; Rich Folks, Poor Folks, and Neither; Dancing; The Idea of Balance Is to Be Found in Herons and Loons; Small Poem; Counting Birds; AFTER IKKYŪ & OTHER POEMS (1996); Preface; After Ikkyū: 1-57; The Davenport Lunar Eclipse; Coyote No. 1; Time Suite; North; Bear; Twilight; Return to Yesenin; Sonoran Radio; PREVIOUSLY UNCOLLECTED POEMS (1976-1990); Hello Walls; Scrubbing the Floor the Night a Great Lady Died; The Same Goose Moon; NEW POEMS (1998); Geo-Bestiary: 1-34; Index of Titles

Index of First LinesAbout the Author

Notes:

Preliminaries omitted.

ISBN:

1-61932-090-8

OCLC:

830170392