Benchmarks : new and selected poems 1963-2013 / / by Richard Dauenhauer

• Autore: Dauenhauer Richard
• Pubblicazione: Fairbanks : , : University of Alaska Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (264 p.)
• Disciplina: 811/.54
• Soggetto topico: Poetry
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Acknowledgments; New Poems, Part One: The Genealogy of Beer; In Praise of the Neolithic; The Genealogy of Beer (A Blend of Beck's and Guinness Stout); Loving in the Autumn Rain; Homeric Erotica; Anna (Feast of the Dormition of Saint Anne, July 25/August 8); Anniversary Poem (1988); Lunchtime at Taguchi's (An idyll for Sam and the Gang); Rissa in the Rain; Mother's Day 1988; Seed Dispersal (Juneau, Alaska, July 20, 1988); Dominic's Poem; Chemawa School Cemetery (Founded 1886); August Afternoon at Helle's Pool, Vancouver, Washington; Jamie, Racing Off; Soccer Squad. ; Red Dogs and OnionsTumor (1996); Croquet, Nickerson Pitch; Breakfast at Grandma Nora's; The Facts of Life; Image of Nora, Rendering Seal Oil; Translating Pasternak; Awaiting Discharge; Based, of course, on hearsay; Epiphany 2008; Sensory Overload (Viewing the Buddhist Tapestries at the Sacred Arts of Bhutan Exhibit, Honolulu Academy of Arts, April 2008); Waikiki, the Breakers; Sonnet on National Security in the Bush-Cheney Reign (Lines Disclosed in a Doctor's Waiting Room); After Finishing an Activities Report for the Dean; Dating Myself. ; Thoughts after Working on Salmon Eggs from our GrandsonForwarding John Updike's "Baseball" on The Writer's Almanac, June 22, 2009; Unfinished Business; Triptych: Easter 2011; Joyriding; Gardening with Elijah; Meditation on Dandelionsin Morning Sunlight; New Poems, Part Two: Juneau Sketches; Daanaawaak / Silver Dollar Eye: Supermarket Satori; Phenomenology of Moss; Shark Fins; Easter Monday; Song Sparrow; Ear-shattering; July 5, 2009; Sunrise; Daybreak; Through Study Window; Iambics for the Southeast Alaska Regional Cross-Country Meet September 20, 2003; Parody of Spring; View of Auke Lake. ; Fleet of Mountain PeaksAll Saints Day (November 1, 2006); November 10; Gift of Bohemian Waxwings; Winter Promise; New Poems, Part Three: Congestive Heart Failure: Letting Go; Landscapes of the Heart; A Meditation: Against the Dying of the Light; A Formal Elegy (Thinking of Dylan Thomas); New Poems, Part Four: Excerpts from the Cycle Lacrimosa: The Social Web of Cancer; Homage to Po Chü-i; Donuts; Tough Guy; Approaching Winter Solstice; Nunc Dimittis; Remembering Ron; Atonement 2009; Basho: Open Road; New Poems, Part Five: Harvesting; First Day of Fall; Foraging; Harvesting Potatoes. ; Digging SpudsOctober Rain; The Tides Forecasting Winter; Potatoes, 2003; Falling in the Garden; Life Support; Harvest Festival; Every Garden Grows One; Selected Poems, Part One:Poems from Little Magazines,1963-1969; The Pall Bearers; Ukrainian Flirtation Dance; At the Spring: Glasby Pond, Fall 1963; Uncle Martin, 1963; Tootsie; Thought and Memory: Finland, Summer 1963; Neva Farm (Finland, 1963); Berrying (Finland, 1963); Ilmatar: Finland, 1966; Full Moon: Finland, 1966; Housewife (Finland, 1967).
• Sommario/riassunto: Russian, German, Tlingit. Like the languages he translates, Richard Dauenhauer's poetry offers unexpected surprises. A prolific translator who also works in Finnish, Swedish, and classical Greek, he has a poetic command of language that has earned him wide recognition over fifty years of published work. Benchmarks spans these decades of writing, and each poem contained within marks a certain place in time and space, like a surveyor's benchmark. The poems play with language while focusing on the land and people of Alaska. And like Alaska itself, this book offers a variety of delights-readers wi.
• Titolo autorizzato: Benchmarks
• ISBN: 1-60223-210-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910828230303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: University of Alaska Press - The Alaska Literary Series