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Rock · tree · bird / Twyla M. Hansen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hansen, Twyla M., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nature--Poetry.
- Nature.
- Agriculture--Nebraska--Poetry.
- Agriculture.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (242 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Omaha, NE : The Backwaters Press, [2017]
- Summary:
- 2018 Nebraska Book Award â2018 WILLA Literary Award This collection of poems by the former State Poet of Nebraska covers significant emotional territory while remaining firmly grounded in the landscape.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- One
- About Your Happy Childhood
- Into the Blue
- Geography Lesson
- Beauty
- Lightning and Lightening
- My Mother Is a Wringer Washer
- Elegy with Feathers
- Feathers
- On Top of the Windmill
- Life on the Farm
- There
- Last Time
- Moon Song
- Sorting
- Camping Along the Platte, Late June
- I Write This While You Are Still Alive
- Breath of Fire
- Birthdays
- Some Nights Are Like This
- My Mother's Hair
- The Heron Is My Mother
- Parts of My Mother
- At the Stoplight Contemplating the Soul
- On the Winter Solstice
- Two
- Clouds Are Scarves Across the Sun
- Believing
- For No Good Reason
- Man on His Cell Phone in the Car Ahead of Me
- Staring Out Back at Something I Don't at First Recognize
- Towels
- Not Everyone Can See
- Sometimes in Summer
- At the Compost Pile
- Morning
- Owls
- November
- A Family of Sparrows
- Coyote
- How to Feed the Birds
- Having Lived in the Same Place for Decades, We Have Perhaps Learned a Few Things
- Gratitude in Winter
- Camping, January
- Outdoors at Night, Winter
- After the Prairie Burn
- The Circle
- Three
- Communion
- Trying to Pray
- Quarry in Seward County
- Into the Wind
- The Mighty Mississippi
- Flight
- Sandhill Cranes
- Dung Beetle
- Moonrise, Aurora, Nebraska
- A Few Lines at Summer Solstice
- Along the Oregon Trail
- Grain of Sand
- Waiting for Meteors
- Watching the Perseids
- How to Watch the Perseids
- Clouds
- Fog
- The Hand of God
- Between Birds
- Late Fall Song
- Notes
- About the Author
- Back Cover.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-4962-2062-5
- OCLC:
- 1117644768
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