LEADER 03230nam 2200613 a 450 001 9910808016803321 005 20230422041603.0 010 $a0-8093-8501-5 010 $a1-299-05089-1 010 $a0-585-33276-2 035 $a(CKB)111004368579134 035 $a(EBL)1354650 035 $a(OCoLC)856870464 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000272534 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11215547 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000272534 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10322899 035 $a(PQKB)11511021 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1354650 035 $a(OCoLC)45843749 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse25911 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1354650 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10654966 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL436339 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111004368579134 100 $a19990713d2000 uy p 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWinter amnesties$b[electronic resource] $e[poems] /$fElton Glaser 210 $aCarbondale $cCrab Orchard Review $cSouthern Illinois University Press$dc2000 215 $a1 online resource (90 p.) 225 0$aCrab Orchard award series in poetry 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8093-2305-2 327 $aCover; 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; Underfoot 327 $aHalf-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 Cover 330 $aWinter Amnesties is a book of origins and endings, griefs and reconciliations. Each poem addresses the dilemma posed by G. K. Chesterton: "One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it." The poems revisit the past, assess the present, and stare hard into the future. At middle age, Glaser remembers his youth in Louisiana and settles into the long stretch of his adult years in Ohio; he makes his peace with "the life that allows." As son, as father, as poet, he looks to his legacy, whatever dim remnant of himself might continue after "all flesh falls back 410 0$aCrab Orchard Series in Poetry 606 $aNature$vPoetry 606 $aAesthetics$vPoetry 615 0$aNature 615 0$aAesthetics 676 $a811/.54 700 $aGlaser$b Elton$01663574 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910808016803321 996 $aWinter amnesties$94021854 997 $aUNINA