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Autore: | McKean James <1946 July 4-> |
Titolo: | Tree of heaven [[electronic resource] ] : poems / / by James McKean |
Pubblicazione: | Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c1995 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (86 p.) |
Disciplina: | 811/.54 |
Soggetto topico: | Poets, American - 20th century |
Conduct of life | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Fireflies; Part One; Sow Bear; Teaching Canaries How to Sing; Tell Me,; This Way, Please; The Place of Mosquitoes; Whispering in Leo Kauf's Ear; The Ride Back; Rowboat; Worry Dolls; Heron; The Night before a Morning's Fishing; Your Leaving; Lava Flow, Wahaula; Ice; Part Two; Skin Test; Whale Rock; Les Grues; The Try-Your-Strength Machine at the Tivoli Gardens; House Wrens; Breakneck; Fake ID; Splitting Wood; Reunion, Cannon Beach; A Hawk in the Yard; Net; A Story after Dinner; Two Magpies; Just in Case; Snow Angel; Part Three; Orchard; Tree of Heaven; Concert; Pelican |
In the Mind's EyeFire Line; Silver Thaw; Driving to Multnomah Falls; The Blessing of Habit; First Snow; Quarry; Dead Reckoning; Rider; Hooking Yourself | |
Sommario/riassunto: | This second book by James McKean displays a large, dignified, and precise talent-McKean is always looking and reaching out to the difficult world, pulling it to him for examination. Although beginning with outward themes of travels and crossings, Tree of Heaven circles in the end to the journeys of the inner life: the struggle to understand, the ability to see, to suffer the trials of illness and death, to survive love and longing, learning when to leave things as they are, when to let go. McKean's accomplished voice is quiet but firm, at times full of wonder, exploring the personal and discov |
Titolo autorizzato: | Tree of heaven |
ISBN: | 1-58729-150-9 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910456394203321 |
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