LEADER 03658oam 22005774a 450 001 9910796908303321 005 20230804175429.0 010 $a1-60223-258-X 035 $a(CKB)3710000000375274 035 $a(EBL)2006883 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001440548 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12588709 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001440548 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11392231 035 $a(PQKB)10458274 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC2006883 035 $a(OCoLC)904979339 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_98370 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000375274 100 $a20150317d2015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 12$aA Ladder of Cranes$fTom Sexton 210 1$aFairbanks, AK :$d[2015]$cUniversity of Alaska Press, 215 $a1 online resource (70 p.) 225 1 $aUniversity of Alaska Press - The Alaska Literary Series 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-60223-257-1 327 $aReading Housman's "Loveliest of trees, the cherry now"A Needle's Eye; A Little Poem for the Stars; Alder Catkins; Alder Catkins after Rain; Poem Written on the Winter Solstice; On Being Asked to Write a Poem about the Moon; European Starling; American Dipper; Independence Mine, August; The Advent Bear. 327 $aTo the Chinese PoetsBlack Spruce; Fall Migration; To the Poet John Haines on His Eighty-fifth Birthday; Resolution Park; The Man from Here; Galaxies; The Church at Ninilchik, Alaska; Swans on Cook Inlet; Solitude; After Walking in Rain on a Sunday Morning; Reading Li Bai While the Moon Rises; Magpie at Twilight; Looking at the Ferry Museum's Salish Baskets; Starring, Western Alaska; The Loon at Shackford Head; Cow Moose and Magpie; Cloudberry Wine; Our Hand-carved Ornament of a Great Blue Heron; President Harding's Pullman Car, Fairbanks, Alaska; Westchester Lagoon; The Mist Net. 327 $aThe Bird Walkers of Roosevelt Park; Pied-billed Grebe on the Concord River; At the Fruitlands Museum, Harvard, Massachusetts; Blueberry Barren at Dusk; Eastport, Maine; Star Marrow; First Anna's Hummingbird Sighted in Newfoundland; Statue of a Union Soldier; A Ladder of Cranes; White-tailed Buck in a Pasture; Winter Thaw; Glass Eels; Po Chu?-I's Cook; Mozart's Starling; On the Death of Seamus Heaney; Innisfree, Western Alberta; Mundare, Alberta; The Wolf of Gubbio; Gray Wolf; Medieval Bestiary: The Wolf; Killing the Kenai Peninsula's Wolves; Fall Raspberries; Fireweed; Insomnia. 330 $aWhether watching men releasing caged birds at dawn in New York City or a ladder of cranes rising from a field in Manitoba, Tom Sexton is a keen observer of the interconnectedness of the natural and human worlds. The former Alaska poet laureate takes to the road in this new collection, wending a lyrical and at times mystical path between Alaska and New England. Travelers along the way include the fabled wolf of Gubbio, old and lame and long past his taming encounter with Saint Francis of Assisi, and Chinese poet Li Bai chanting to a Yangtze River dolphin. Yet, while Sexton's journey cro. 410 0$aUniversity of Alaska Press - The Alaska Literary Series 606 $aPoetry$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst01067691 606 $aPoesie 606 $aPoetry 608 $aRessources Internet. 615 7$aPoetry. 615 0$aPoesie. 615 0$aPoetry. 676 $a811.54 700 $aSexton$b Tom$f1940-$01468327 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910796908303321 996 $aA Ladder of Cranes$93735745 997 $aUNINA