Reading the water
- Title
- Reading the water / Charles Harper Webb ; selected and introduced by Edward Hirsch.
- Published by
- Boston, Mass. : Northeastern University Press, 1997.
- Author
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- Additional authors
- Description
- xiii, 85 pages; 21 cm.
- Series statement
- The Morse Poetry Prize ; 1997
- Uniform title
- Morse Poetry Prize ; 1997.
- Contents
- The Mummy Meets Hot-Headed Naked Ice-Borers -- Health -- Perspective -- Subatomic Particles -- Flying Fish in the Jet Stream -- The Death of Santa Claus -- Prayer for the Man Who Mugged My Father, 72 -- You Missed the Earthquake, Bill -- Spiders -- Once Bitten -- One Story -- The Crane Boy -- Girl at a Window -- Marilyn's Machine -- Fantasy Girl -- Broken Toe -- The Shape of History -- In Praise of Pliny -- True Prophets -- Twenty Years Late to See The Rocky Horror Picture Show -- My Muse -- The Reasonable Man -- In the War Zone -- The Dead Run -- Eating -- Umbrellas -- Optimism -- Mastery -- Holiday Inn -- Buyer's Remorse -- The Temptations of Pinocchio -- Nature Poem -- Evil Genius -- Invocation to Allen as the Muse Euterpe -- Peaches -- Back Flip -- Without Being a Wimp -- Four-Wheeling -- Behaviorists -- Blind -- How Lizzie Died -- According to the Rule -- Spirits -- Heat Death -- What the Poets Would Have Done for You -- Reading the Water --
- Poem for the Future.
- Owning institution
- Columbia University Libraries