Dispatch from the Mountain State : Poems / Marc Harshman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harshman, Marc, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

West Virginia--Poetry.

West Virginia.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (108 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Morgantown, West Virginia : West Virginia University Press, [2025]

Summary:

"A collection of poems anchored in West Virginia and engaging in the trademark themes of a mature poet-death, despair, dread and the seeming randomness with which all these come into a life"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

First

Dispatch from the Mountain State

The Apple Trees Were in Blossom

River

Beech Bottom, West Virginia

Hunger

This Light

Black and White

Reading

Storm Lyrics

Some Day

Polly

Taking It All on Faith

Dancing Below the Curious Hills

Once More Home

Second

Ancestry

I Come to the Garden Alone

Where She Lives

Well Enough

Wake

Headlines

The Door Open

Back to the Garden

Jackson Pollock and the Starlings, Moundsville, West Virginia

Insomnia

Chapel

Tinnitus

Astonished

Flight Behavior

Haying

Politics

Blue in Green

Grandmother Loved to Dance

Late October

Skeletal

Beauty and...

Third

A Breach

Through a Little Hole

Annotated Timeline for "A One Inch Hole"

Dreams Enter Through a Hole in My Head

There's a Hole in Their Arguments...

The Hole that Remembers an Ancient Well

Other Holes in the Ground

A Few Sentences Threading the Holes Together

A Small Hole Where a Last Poem Enters

Fourth

Heart Work

Just Outside the Grocery a Boy with a Gun

April 17, Romney Road

Not a Boy Scout

Surrender

Nowhere Beyond

The News and the History

Reminders

Notes

About the Author.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781959000426

195900042X

OCLC:

1511105095