03230nam 2200613 a 450 991080801680332120230422041603.00-8093-8501-51-299-05089-10-585-33276-2(CKB)111004368579134(EBL)1354650(OCoLC)856870464(SSID)ssj0000272534(PQKBManifestationID)11215547(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000272534(PQKBWorkID)10322899(PQKB)11511021(MiAaPQ)EBC1354650(OCoLC)45843749(MdBmJHUP)muse25911(Au-PeEL)EBL1354650(CaPaEBR)ebr10654966(CaONFJC)MIL436339(EXLCZ)9911100436857913419990713d2000 uy pengur|n|---|||||txtccrWinter amnesties[electronic resource] [poems] /Elton GlaserCarbondale Crab Orchard Review Southern Illinois University Pressc20001 online resource (90 p.)Crab Orchard award series in poetryDescription based upon print version of record.0-8093-2305-2 Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; One; Clearing the Ground; Hymn and Field Holler; Suppertime; Introibo at 5 a.m.; Epiphany Stick; Dancing Lessons; The Summoning; Seminary Easter; King Cake Party; Somniloquy; American Flyer; Junkyard Blues; Winter Inset; Cradlesong; Two; Crows in a Locust Tree; Turning with the Animals; First Earth; Seapiece; This Late, This Far; Shadows by Giacometti; Freefall at Evening; Nothing of Ourselves; Hibernation; Eine Kleine Nachtmusik; A Little Daymusic; Late Returns in Eden; Bird Lady; Dog Nights; Sunny Side Up; Sub Rosa; UnderfootHalf-Ode at HarvestThree; This Is Your; Zero Summer; Bifocal; Long in the Tooth; The Effects of Myth at Two below Zero; Le Piano Introspectif; The Faith of Forty; Smoking; Dirge in the Chalumeau Register; Spry Declensions; Refusing October; Purge; Principles of Conversion; Forecasts; Last Poem of Summer; Deathbed Edition; Also in the Series; Back CoverWinter Amnesties is a book of origins and endings, griefs and reconciliations. Each poem addresses the dilemma posed by G. K. Chesterton: "One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it." The poems revisit the past, assess the present, and stare hard into the future. At middle age, Glaser remembers his youth in Louisiana and settles into the long stretch of his adult years in Ohio; he makes his peace with "the life that allows." As son, as father, as poet, he looks to his legacy, whatever dim remnant of himself might continue after "all flesh falls backCrab Orchard Series in PoetryNaturePoetryAestheticsPoetryNatureAesthetics811/.54Glaser Elton1663574MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910808016803321Winter amnesties4021854UNINA