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Rock · tree · bird / Twyla M. Hansen.

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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 ​2018 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:
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ISBN:
1-4962-2062-5
OCLC:
1117644768

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