Passing Through a Gate : Poems, Essays, and Translations.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Balaban, John.

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Essays.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (254 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

La Vergne : Copper Canyon Press, 2024.

Summary:

"A collection of poetry and prose by John Balaban"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Note to the Reader

Dedication

Contents

Introduction by Michael Wiegers

Walking Down into Cebolla Canyon

War Poetry, Political Poetry, and the Invisible Powers

Along the Mekong

The Guard at the Binh Thuy Bridge

Mau Than

The Gardenia in the Moon

Saying Goodbye to Mr. and Mrs. Mỹ, Saigon, 1972

Carcanet: After Our War

Lighting Out for the Territories

Hitchhiking and Listening to My CB Walkie-Talkie

Story

Riding Westward

Crossing West Nebraska, Looking for Blue Mountain

Kate and Gary's Bar, Red River, New Mexico

Sitting on Blue Mountain, Watching the Birds Fly South and Thinking of St. Julien Ravenel Childs

Deer Kill

Chasing Out the Demons

Journey in the Desert

The Gift of Morning Water

Peyote Villanelle

Heading out West

Daddy out Hitchhiking at 3:00 a.m.

Words for My Daughter

Agua Fría y Las Chicharras

Some Things That Happened before Our Daughter's Birth

Snowbound

Passing through Albuquerque

Fun with Tom and Jane

Speak, Memory

In Celebration of Spring

For the Missing in Action

Mr. Giai's Poem

South of LA

Hissarlik

For Mrs. Cẩm, Whose Name Means "Brocaded Silk"

At 4:00 a.m., Asleep

For My Sister in Warminster General Hospital

Anna Akhmatova Spends the Night on Miami Beach

Passing through a Gate

Some Ca Dao Recorded in Vietnam, 1971-1972

The Sàigòn River

At the Exiled King's River Pavilion

Leaving the Village

Love Lament

The Red Cloth

The Ship of Redemption

A Tiny Bird

Tao

The Arranged Marriage

The Outpost Soldier

Spring Essence: The Poetry of Hồ Xuân Hương

Autumn Landscape

Offering Betel

On Sharing a Husband

Jackfruit

River Snail

Three Mountain Pass

Confession (I)

Teasing Chiêu-Hổ

Weaving at Night

The Paper Fan

The Floating Cake.

The Unwed Mother

Quán Sứ Pagoda

Trấn Quốc Temple

Spring-Watching Pavilion

Christmas Eve at Washington's Crossing

Highway 61 Revisited

Sotol

The Lives of the Poets

Loving Graham Greene

Some Dogs of the World

On the Death of his Dog, Apples

Soldier Home

If Only

Leaving

The Goodbyes

Driving Back East with My Dad

Dinner in Miami

Romania, Romania

Ovid, Tristia 5.10.15-22

The Siege

Dr. Alice Magheru's Room

Georgi Borisov in Paris

Let Him Be

Ibn Fadhlan, the Arab Emissary, Encounters Vikings on the Volga River, AD 922

Looking Out from the Acropolis, 1989

A Finger

After the Inauguration, 2013

Gods and Empire

Poetry Reading by the Black Sea

"The smell of autumn rain …"

Herța

Préface en Prose

The Alibi

Returning after Our War

Goodbye to the Lake

For John Steinbeck IV (1947-1991)

At Nora's House, Shepard's Roost, Atlantic Beach, NC, Where I Wrote Many of My Poems

Tide Pool

Waiting for the Painter to Return

Remembering Elling Eide (1935-2012)

Showgirl

Three Men Dancing on a River Shore

Cibolero

Coyote past Sunset

El Mercado

El Cementerio de la Merced

Looking for the lights

Back then

The Writing Life

About the Author

Books by John Balaban

Acknowledgments

Copyright

Special Thanks.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-61932-290-0

OCLC:

1435753503