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Title

Locusts at the edge of summer : new & selected poems / John Balaban.

Author

Balaban, John, 1943-

Publication

Port Townsend, WA : Copper Canyon Press, [1997], ©1997.

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Details

Description

ix, 154 pages; 23 cm

Contents

• Speak, Memory -- Lo, He Sees Four Men Loose, Walking in the Midst of the Fire -- Autumn Landscape -- Along the Mekong -- The Guard at the Binh Thuy Bridge -- Mau Than -- Carcanet: After Our War -- The Ship of Redemption -- The Gardenia in the Moon -- The Water Buffalo -- Palindrome for Clyde Coreil in Saigon -- News Update -- Erhart -- Letter from a Bargirl -- John Steinbeck, IV (1947-1991) -- Thoughts before Dawn -- On Reading the Anthology of the Ten Thousand Poets -- For Mrs. Cam, Whose Name Means "Printed Silk" -- After Our War -- Heading Out West -- Hitch-Hiking and Listening to My CB Walkie-Talkie -- Story -- Riding Westward -- Crossing West Nebraska, Looking for Blue Mountain -- Sitting on Blue Mountain, Watching the Birds Fly South and Thinking of St. Julien Ravenel Childs -- Deer Kill -- Chasing Out the Demons -- Journey in the Desert -- Walking Down into Cebolla Canyon -- Kate and Gary's Bar, Red River, New Mexico -- Daddy Out Hitch-Hiking at 3:00 A.M. --
• Passing through Albuquerque -- Portal -- Agua Fria Y Las Chicharras -- Eliseo's Cabin, Taos Pueblo -- Studying the Seasons on Blue Mountain -- Lovers Near Jemez Springs -- A Tiny Bird -- Snowbound -- Three Ways of Looking at Sparrows -- Peyote Villanelle -- The Gift of Morning Water -- Words for the Dead -- For My Sister in Warminster General Hospital -- A Woman Alone on the Road -- That Man -- Some Things That Happened before My Daughter's Birth -- Flying Home -- Words for My Daughter -- Spring-Watching Pavilion -- At 4:00 A.M., Asleep -- In Celebration of Spring -- For the Missing in Action -- Graveyard at Bald Eagle Ridge -- Hissarlik -- Hail to the Chief -- Letters from Across the Sea -- "The Smell of Autumn Rain..." -- The Siege -- All Souls Night -- Inscriptions from the Black Sea Tombs -- Poetry Reading at the Varna Ruins -- Dr. Alice Magheru's Room -- Collateral Damage -- Mr. Giai's Poem -- Dogs, Dreams, and Rain -- The Chess Player --
• Reading the News and Thinking of the T'ang Poets -- Atomic Ghost -- South of L.A. -- Estuary -- Tomato Pickers -- Some Notes on Miami -- Anna Akhmatova Spends the Night on Miami Beach -- Sort of a Gay-Bash -- For John Haag, Logger, Sailor, Housepainter, Poet, Professor, and Grower of Orchids -- Viewing the New World Order -- Locust Ghazal-Dazzle.

ISBN

1556591233 (pbk.)

LCCN

97004654

OCLC

• 36343353
• ocm36343353

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries