Research Catalog

Title

Counting survivors / Walter McDonald.

Author

McDonald, Walter.

Publication

Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, [1995], ©1995.

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Details

Description

82 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Pitt poetry series

Uniform Title

Pitt poetry series.

Contents

• After the Fall of Saigon -- Wishing for More than Thunder -- Harvest -- For Friends Missing in Action -- The Gleam of Silver Wings -- What If I Didn't Die Outside Saigon -- Heirlooms -- Teaching Our Sons Old Chores -- Regular Programming on the Eve of War -- War in the Persian Gulf -- The Price They Paid for Range -- Out of the Stone They Come -- Life with Father -- Boys with Chihuahua Dogs -- Digging in a Footlocker -- Seconds of Free-Fall and Chaos -- Buzzards and Uncle Douglas -- Fame at Eleven -- My Brother and the Golden Gloves -- Father's Mail-Order Rifles -- Rodeo Bulls -- The Clink of Brown Bottles -- Riding Herd -- The Rockets' Red Glare -- The Signs of Prairie Rattlers -- Counting Survivors -- Uncle Philip and the Endless Names -- The Hairpin Curve at Durango -- Uncle Jerry and the Velvet Dog -- The Tap of Angry Reins -- Farms at Auction -- Scanning the Range for Strays -- Hardscrabble, Tooth and Claw -- Witching on Canvas -- Rembrandt and the Art of Mercy -- The Dust We're Made Of.
• Names on the Wrists of Strangers -- Neighbors Miles Away -- At the Rattlesnake Roundup -- Father's Wild Pheasants -- Nights on the Porch Swing -- Dogs in the World They Own -- The Meaning of Flat Fields -- Coyotes and Dogs -- Nights Without Rockets -- To All Friends Fast Asleep -- On Taking a Grandson Hunting -- The Invention of Courage -- Charts -- Geldings on Mountain Ranches -- Letting Go -- Grace and the Blood of Goats -- Under Blue Skies -- Time for the Traction of Docks -- Rocking for Days in the Shade -- Living in Old Adobe -- Stalls in All Weather -- Luck of the Draw -- Someday -- Saying the Blessing -- When the Children Have Gone -- Leaving Sixty -- Mesas I Never Took the Time to Climb.

ISBN

• 082293874X (cloth)
• 0822955555 (pbk.)

LCCN

94043044

OCLC

• 31434677
• ocm31434677

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries