Not for luck : poems by Derek Sheffield / Derek Sheffield.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sheffield, Derek, author.

Series:

Wheelbarrow Books

Wheelbarrow books series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry.

Ecology--Poetry.

Ecology.

Father and child.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (105 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [2021]

Summary:

In Not For Luck, Derek Sheffield ushers us into the beauty and grace that comes from giving attention to the interconnections that make up our lives. In particular, these poems explore a father's relationship with his daughters, which is rooted in place and time. There is tenderness and an abiding ecological consciousness, but also loss and heartache, especially about environmental degradation. We are invited to listen to the languages of other beings. Through encounters with a herd of deer, a circle of salmon in a mountain creek, two bears on a stretch of coast, a river otter, and a shiny-eyed wood rat, these poems offer moments of wonder that celebrate our place as one species among many on our only earth.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Timid as Any Herd Animal

Stewards at Work

The Scientists Gather at Mount St. Helens

April

Aubade

The Wren and the Jet at a Research Forest near Fort Knox, Seventy-One Years since the Bombing of Hiroshima, Eight Months since the Photo of a Three-Year-Old Syrian Boy Facedown on a Turkish Beach, His Red Shirt, His Blue Shorts

Fish Like These

hitch

Traveling Again through the Dark

Good Girl

Daughter and Father in Winter

The Math of Two

Bedtime Story

The Science of Spirit Lake

For Those Who Would See

Emissaries

Emergency

First Grade

Her Calling

Monsters

We Could See

The Skookum Indian

In Nez Perce Country with Kevin

A True Account of Wood-Getting from up the Chumstick

C-3PO

What Happens

It Wasn't the Laundry

Exactly What Needs Saying

Abortion Wish

John Carter of Mars versus the Void

Notes, Descending

A Song for Today

Idaho, Maybe

Contextual Education

Still Time

What Will Keep Us

The Empty Road Full of People

The Nature of Time Was What They Were Talking About

At the Log Decomposition Site in the H. J. Andrews Experimental Forest, a Visitation

A Moment Ago

Her Yarn

Opening the Curtains

Totality

Middle School

A Response to a Pair of Forest Plots

She Gathers Rocks

The Seconds

Her Present

Acknowledgments.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-62895-422-1

1-61186-389-9

OCLC:

1224366579