Research Catalog

Title

Watch fire : poems / by Christopher Merrill ; with an introduction by David St. John.

Author

Merrill, Christopher.

Publication

Fredonia, NY : White Pine Press, 1994.

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Details

Additional Authors

St. John, David, 1949-

Description

191 pages; 22 cm

Contents

• Introduction / David St. John -- Childhood -- Fable -- A Boy Juggling a Soccer Ball -- Concert -- Children's Suite -- The Parade: July 4th, 1970 -- The Fishing Jacket -- Lessons -- Sacrilege -- Poaching -- The Diver -- The Gatekeeper -- The Knot -- Beliefs -- The Rope -- Notes for a Self-Portrait -- Work Songs -- In Spring -- Epithalamium -- Housesitting Poems -- Workbook -- Prayer -- Nocturne -- The Dancer -- The River -- Autumn in San Francisco -- Morning Song -- Love Songs -- By the Sea -- The Sea -- Words -- Charm -- Catches -- Country Inn -- Discounts -- The Mormon Globes -- In Bountiful -- Cotillions -- Ebb Tide -- Magnolia Bluff -- Three Boats -- The Hurricane -- Scotch Broom: An Inventory -- Early Poems -- Lupines -- Exiles -- Jaime Sabines: from Lost Birds -- Doppelganger -- Laments -- Autumn Sequence -- Immanent -- Old Wives' Tales -- Grace -- The Greenhouse -- Haven -- Winterings -- Andre Breton -- A Primer -- Lines on the Vernal Equinox -- Excerpts from a Commonplace Book -- Presswork.
• April -- Because -- Erosion -- Dog, Howling -- The Sirens -- Breath -- Coastlines -- Three Translations -- Pike Place Market Variations -- Rene Char: Three Poems -- Signals -- Three Riddles -- White Noise -- Luck.

ISBN

1877727431

OCLC

ocm31351492

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries