Research Catalog

Title

The house of song : poems / by David Wagoner.

Author

Wagoner, David.

Publication

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2002], ©2002.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Description

x, 180 pages; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Illinois poetry series

Uniform Title

Illinois poetry series.

Contents

• The House of Song -- Moth Flight -- The Words-and-Music Men -- For Laurel and Hardy on My Workroom Wall -- Wallace Stevens on His Way to Work -- The Lessons of Water -- Lachrymals -- The Four Fates -- Forgetting the Magic Words -- High Steel -- Aerial Act -- On Thin Ice -- Landscaping Rocks for Sale -- The Landscaper -- The Joggers -- A Girl Playing in a Sandbox -- God and Man and Flower -- Dr. Frankenstein's Garden -- The Collectors -- Benjamin Franklin and the Dust Devil -- The First Passenger Balloon Ascension, 1783 -- Meeting the Ditchdigger -- Slug -- Meditation -- The Weather Man -- A Homily for the Preservation of the Spirit in a Time of Dread -- Waiting Out a Storm on a Deserted Farm -- Looking into a Crystal Ball -- In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree -- The Book of Moonlight -- My Father and the Hydrostatic Paradox -- Speeding -- Thinking of What to Say -- For a Mockingbird -- In a Country Cemetery -- Wild Cucumber -- The Path --
• Keeping Quiet at the Benedictine Abbey -- At the Ruins of Baalbek, 1971 -- Elegy on the First Day of Spring -- Our Hands -- The End of the Story -- Alexandra and the Thunder -- Dancing Daughters -- Night Light -- In the Snow -- Thoreau and the Stumps -- Thoreau and the Body -- Thoreau and the Crickets -- Thoreau and the Toads -- Thoreau and the Catfish -- Thoreau Wading in a River -- Thoreau and the Cow -- In the Experimental Pool -- Symposium -- Dead Letter from Out of Town -- Howl -- The Son of a Glover -- The Loneliness of the 100-Meter Dash Man -- The Actress and the Rat -- Backstage -- At the Door -- Curtain Call -- Quick Meditation on a Senior Citizens' Drill Team -- Freak -- The Brief Appearance of the Equable Man -- On Seeing a Street Indian Wearing My Old Dress Suit -- In the Kiva at Old Oraibi -- The Houses of the Navajo -- In the Room Next Door -- By the Sea, by the Sea -- Witness Protection -- Making Camp -- Crossing a Path -- At the Edge of a Cliff --
• Making a Browse Bed -- Staying Here -- Found -- Young Raven -- Robber Jay -- Owl -- Rattlesnake Dance -- Cow Dance -- For a Grizzly Bear Sleeping -- In the Duck Blind -- The Teal's Wing -- Critical Distance -- The Principles of Concealment -- Lying in Ambush -- Madstone -- The Murderer -- Dream House -- Telling What Happened -- That Child -- The Sick Child -- Carrying the Fire -- Making a God -- The Elders -- The People Who Ate Snow -- How It Will Be.

ISBN

• 0252027302 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0252070488 (paper : alk. paper)

LCCN

2001003999

OCLC

• ocm47644188
• SCSB-4255306

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries