Conflict resolution for holy beings : poems
Record details
- ISBN: 039335363X
- ISBN: 9780393353631
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Physical Description:
xvi, 139 pages ; 22 cm
print - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York ; London : W.W. Norton & Company, [2015]
- Copyright: ©2015
Content descriptions
Formatted Contents Note: | Acknowledgments. -- Part one. How it came to be: "I lay my body down ..." -- For calling the spirit back from wandering the earth in its human feet -- "For any spark to make a song ..." -- Rabbit is up to tricks -- "Listened to an alto sax player ..." -- No -- "Humans were created by mistake ..." -- Once the world was perfect -- "When I woke up from a forty-year sleep ..." -- Cricket song -- "After years you realize ..." -- Entering the principality of O'ahu by sky roads -- "Each human is a complex, contradictory story ..." -- We were there when jazz was invented -- "This is only one of many worlds ..." -- Reality show -- "When I blow my horn ..." -- Beautiful baby, beautiful child. -- Part two. The wanderer: Talking with the sun -- "'One way to look at it, ' he told me ..." -- Spirit walking in the tundra -- "Where we lived, the settlers built their houses ..." -- Mother field -- "Let's not shame our eyes ..." -- Walk -- "Midnight is a horn player ..." -- Charlie and the baby -- "When I walk over to join you in the two-step ..." -- Had-It-Up-to-Here Round Dance -- " 'Through these doors walk some of the finest ... ' " -- One Day There Will Be Horses -- "When I returned to my ancestral grounds ..." -- Goin' home -- "Our Mvskoke new year is inherently ..." -- The first day without a mother. -- Part three. Visions and monsters: Falling, falling -- "Imagine if we natives went to the cemeteries ..." -- In mystic -- "This is the kitchen table university ..." -- Listening to blues in a fish joint, downtown Denver -- "I would do anything for you, baby ..." -- Indian school night song blues -- "Do not feed the monsters ..." -- Suicide watch -- "We all have helpers ..." -- This morning I pray for my enemies -- "Ah, but what about being ..." -- Conflict resolution for holy beings -- "The first horn I played ..." -- Forever -- "And then I argued with myself ..." -- I am not ready to die yet -- "Whenever a saxophone begins ..." -- Report from the edge of a terrible regime -- "In one house lives the sun ..." -- From DFW Airport at dawn -- "What kept me going was that perfect song ..." -- The last world of fire and trash. -- Part four. The world: You can change the story, my spirit said to me as I sat near the sea -- "Those who could see into the future predicted the storm ..." -- Sunrise healing song -- "I knew there was no way ..." -- It's raining in Honolulu -- "The day went on as it always had ..." -- Praise the rain -- "Time is a being, like you, like me ..." -- Rushing the Pali -- "I thought of all the doors ..." -- Surfing canoes -- "I returned to the city of country swing ..." -- Speaking tree -- "I heard a raven cry the blues ..." -- Everybody has heartache -- "Everyone comes into the world ..." -- For a girl becoming -- "I keep thinking of my boyfriend ..." -- Fall song -- "My friend Sarita went visiting ..." -- For keeps -- "I confided in him the longing ..." -- Equinox -- "What are you doing there, soul ..." -- Sunrise. |
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Subject: | American poetry American poetry Poetry |
Genre: | American poetry. Poetry. Poems. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Holdable? | Status | Due Date | Courses |
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Interurban Library | PS 3558 A62423 A6 2015 (Text) | 26040003400476 | Main Collection | Volume hold | Available | - |