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Ditch Memory : New and Selected Poems.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Davis, Todd.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (0 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, 2024.
- Summary:
- "In thirty new poems, and with ample selections from his previous seven books, Todd Davis's roots run deep in Rust-Belt Appalachia, attending to the harmed but healing landscape, the people whose lives are too often neglected, and the looming threat of climate collapse and extinction"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Foreword: Solaces Gleaned from an Earth Poet's Poem-Stories | David James Duncan
- New Poems
- Midsentence
- Goat Dream
- The Bear inside the Bear
- Tributary
- The Dam on Loup Run
- April Prayer
- For a Stray Dog near the Paper Mill in Tyrone, Pennsylvania
- The Taxidermist's Daughter Retrieves a Head
- Free Write
- Before My Mother's Funeral
- Pit Ponies
- Eclogue for an Extractive Economy
- Silt Psalm
- Fishing with My Seventeen-Year-Old Self
- The Wind Turbine Tech Speaks of Revolutions
- After the Elk Hunt
- Of This Failing
- Vernal Pond
- Apostate
- Reservoir/Crows/Climate Change
- The Doctor Asks My Friend to Follow the Light at the End of Her Pen
- At Last I Can Understand What the Birds Are Saying
- Wayfaring
- Fishing with Nightcrawlers
- Bare Limbs
- This Shared Life
- Deposition: What Was Lost
- Last Baptism
- A Friend Writes to Tell Me How Hildegard of Bingen Cried Viriditas!
- Ditch Memory
- from Coffin Honey
- Buck Day
- What I Know about the Last Lynching in Jeff Davis County
- Ursus in the Underworld
- Coffin Honey
- Possum
- Field Sermon
- Taxidermy: Cathartes aura
- dream elevator
- Mother
- Bear-Eater
- Until Darkness Comes
- In the Garden
- Sitting Shiva
- from Native Species
- Almanac of Faithful Negotiations
- Decadence
- Goat's Milk
- After Twenty-Seven Years of Marriage
- Native Species
- How Our Names Turn into Light
- The Rain that Holds Light in the Trees
- The Turtle
- Coltrane Eclogue
- Gnosis
- Returning to Earth
- Thankful for Now
- from Winterkill
- Homily
- Thieves
- What My Neighbor Tells Me Isn't Global Warming
- Burn Barrel
- Sulphur Hatch
- By the Rivers of Babylon
- The Last Time My Mother Lay Down with My Father
- Poem Made of Sadness and Water
- Canticle for Native Brook Trout
- from In the Kingdom of the Ditch.
- Taxonomy
- What I Told My Sons after My Father Died
- Apophatic
- Fishing for Large Mouth in a Strip-Mining Reclamation Pond near Lloydsville, Pennsylvania
- The Poet Stumbles upon a Buddha in Game Lands 158 above Tipton, Pennsylvania
- Crow Counsels Me in the Ways of Love
- Nurse Log
- The Sound of Sunlight
- A Prayer for My Sons, after a Line of Reported Conversation by the Poet William Blake to a Child Seated Next to Him at a Dinner Party
- from The Least of These
- Doctrine
- April Poem
- Questions for the Artist
- The Face of Jesus
- Ananias Lays Hands on Saul
- Confession
- Puberty
- Accident
- Letter to Galway Kinnell at the End of September
- Tree of Heaven
- from Some Heaven
- The Possibility of Rain
- Somewhere Else
- Prayer Requests at a Mennonite Church
- Sleep
- Jacklighting
- Some Heaven
- from Ripe
- For an Uncle, Twenty-Four Years after His Passing
- Fear of Flying
- Building Walls
- The Blind Man
- Acknowledgments.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781609177713
- 1609177711
- OCLC:
- 1492958235
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