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Title

Down wind, down river : new and selected poems / William Witherup.

Author

Witherup, William.

Publication

Albuquerque, N.M. : West End Press : Distributed by University of New Mexico Press, [2000], ©2000.

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Details

Additional Authors

University of New Mexico Press.

Description

xiii, 177 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Contents

• At Malya, Crete: 1959 -- Three Perspectives of San Francisco -- To a Salesgirl in Juarez -- In a Country of Warehouses -- Freeway -- A Fable -- Messages from a Zuni Fetish -- Columbia River Suite -- Depression -- After My Breakdown -- On the Death of Theodore Roethke -- For a Still-Born Niece -- We Were Each Alone -- Saida -- Siren - Woman and Bird -- Marian at Tassajara Springs -- Marian/"Chama" in Three Mountain Ranges -- For a Lady Who Loves Schubert -- Hybrid Villanelle on a Line by Li Po -- A Day of Scattered Rain -- A Man's Life -- Apricot Tree -- One a Dead Swallow -- At Jeannie's in El Rito -- Rito -- Aspen Ranch Road -- An American Dream -- Coast Live Oak -- Two from the Monterey Hotel -- Portola Cannery Poem -- The Soledad Prison Poems -- Robert Bly at Point Lobos -- Night: Soberanes Point -- To the President of the Company -- John Haines -- Mojave -- Yucca -- Frost -- Alders -- Gathering Wood for the Winter -- For the Alders Again --
• Going Up for the Mail -- Winter Darkness -- Thinking about Suicide -- Sphinx Moth -- Death Is Behind Us -- Hornet's Nest -- At the Sign of the Fish -- Five Fractured Preludes for Blue Bear -- Moonwatching and Steelhead -- Crows -- Prayer for a Young Gray Fox -- October in Appalachia -- Reading High School Poems in Hindman, Kentucky -- Dog Dying -- On Campus in Kentucky -- Dream during First Snow Storm -- How the Jilted Lover Spends His Time -- Shawhan, Kentucky: Winter 1978 -- Western Kentucky Farmer -- Milling Redwood up Vicente Creek -- To Bixby Creek Again, and to You, Raccoon -- April Night -- Sobaka in the Underworld -- Something Wakes You -- Two From Rancho Cieneguilla -- Drunk in Pecos -- Written at Michael Good, Fine Books -- Water Striders on Paper Mill Creek -- Irises -- Amber & Acacia, Reagan & Gorbachev by Starlight -- To Workman's Comp -- My Father Dying: 1984 -- Once by Hanford Reach -- Nuke City Ballad -- A Rufous: Tomales, 1986 -- Working Class Haiku --
• Portrait of S. B., with a Steel Wing -- Egret: Bolinas Lagoon, 1986 -- From the Bed and Breakfast Basement -- Root Hog or Die -- Variations on an Image by W. C. Williams -- Chama -- Mervyn Clyde Witherup -- Sir, if You Are, Sir -- Gathering Blackberries -- Our President Reads a Book - Not Louis L'Amour -- Charlie Parker, 1989 -- The Coming of Desire -- Not-So-Still-Life -- Snow White -- Coda -- At the Poetry Furnace -- Motorcycle Moon -- John Wayne, Gunslinger, R. I. P. -- Late Spring, after the Gulf War -- Nagasaki Journal: August 9, 1945 -- Living by 1-5, August 6, 1995 -- My Grandson at Green Lake -- Still (Active) Life with Plum Tree, Man, and Dog -- Walking Nonseq in New Snow -- For Mumia Abu-Jamal, on Pennsylvania's Death Row -- Two for Sophie Dog -- Salmon Speaks -- The Baker of Pies -- When the Computers Have Crashed -- The Scientific-Technological Paradigm -- Down Wind, Down River -- Envoi: Manic Depression in the Rear-View Mirror -- Some Notes on Translation --
• I Go Dreaming Roads -- Cante Hondo -- A Youthful Figure Comes -- Field -- Songs from the Highlands -- In Memory of Abel Martin -- Song to Guiomar -- Day's Meditation -- Alert -- Star -- Railroad Station -- Horizon -- Sailor -- Universe -- Arctic Seas -- The Dark Room -- Cove -- Rooster -- Mud -- The Invasion -- Market Place -- Cities -- Nathalie -- Epilogue -- Blind Man.

ISBN

0931122996 :

OCLC

• ocm45290502
• SCSB-4011631

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries