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Carrying Water to the Field : New and Selected Poems.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
2019.
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| Series: | Ted Kooser contemporary poetry.
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Full text (Wentworth users only) |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Selections from Straight Out of View; Straight Out of View; The Farm; Tornado Warning; Feeding the New Calf; My Father Comes to the City; St. Joe, the Angelus; In Black; From Out the Cave; Great Salt Lake; Holland Park at Dusk; Riding East to Dover; Reading Sylvia Plath in London; Edgar's Dream; Death Becomes Me; Suppose Death Comes Like This; What You Wanted; A Kind of Deliverance; In Quest of Agates; Living in the Body; Crossroads; Selections from Coming Back to the Body; Homesteading; Comforts of the Sun
- Girl on a TractorA Poem with My Mother in It; Apple Season; Fields in Late October; Casino; Of Virtue; The Silence Says; A Kind of Villanelle; Her Legendary Head; Not for Burning; The Temptation to Invent; Bookmobile; Rodin on Film; Arrangement in Grey and Black; What the Heart Cannot Forget; Older, Younger, Both; Coming Back to the Body; Into Thin Air; The Assumption; Selections from Naming the Stars; Naming the Stars; Raku Songs; How We Ended Up Together; The Problem Was; Losing Touch; Polaroid # 2; Ever After; The Sound of No One Calling; Aisle and View; The Apostate's Creed; Empty
- What Comes AfterIn the Wake; This Body; Now That Anything Could Happen; What to Pack; Getting the Machine; Some Glad Morning; At the Moment; Now, Finally, a Love Song; Selections from First Words; First Words; The Body I Once Lived In; My Legendary Father; The Kingdom of Summer; The Aunts; My Luck; Just for the Record; Bringing in the Hay; My Dog, Pal; Harrow; The Oat Binder; "H"; What Every Girl Wants; The First Child; My Brother's Hat; These Few Precepts; In Vermeer's Painting; Things You Didn't Put on Your Résumé; How to Listen; The Last Things I'll Remember; Selections from After Words
- A Dream of Empty FieldsTaking Stock; The Scythe; "Perfect Weather for Hanging Wash"; My Mother's Secret Life; The Exam; Grandma Clara; September Afternoon, Writing; My Grandmother Sells Her Strawberry Field; The Queen of Summer Lawns; My Sister's School Papers; Two Girls on a Hayrack; The Blue in the Distance; Things I Know; Bell Bottom Baby; The Suzuki Mother; We Have Come This Far; Next Time; Dominoes; The Last Perfect Season; Selections from Modern Love & Other Myths; Whiteout; On the Shortest Days; Winter's Night; Like That; It's Amazing; The Hampstead Sonnets
- Bird on a Wall in County ClareThe Last Straw; Things to Watch While You Drive; The Idea of Living; The Lost Prophecy; One Thousand and One Nights; The Poem You Said You Wouldn't Write; The One Constant Thing; Death, Inc.; Even in My Time; The Posthumous Journey of the Soul; All the People I Used to Be; For the Evening Light; Say It; The Book of Hours; Selections from The Green House; Irish Suite; A Bird in County Clare; A Postcard from the Burren; At Clonmacnoise; Playing the Pipes; This Beautiful Paper; Snow, Snow, Snow; The Sound of a Train; Writing Poetry; Why We Need Poetry