Research Catalog

Title

Asleep in the lightning fields / Jorn Ake.

Author

Ake, Jorn, 1964-

Publication

Huntsville : Texas Review Press, 2002.

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Details

Description

70 pages; 22 cm

Contents

• Hauling the Dead Horse -- Gray Dipper Song -- Push Boat Morning Blues -- Photograph: Norfolk, VA 1969 -- Learning to Tie My Own Shoes -- Might Have Been That Tractor -- Lost Love of Scissors -- Broadcast on a Brown Radio -- Cut Blue Skin -- Love Song For My Cello -- A Flattened Ball -- Chicken Fried Steak -- The Death of a Tractor's Son -- What Becomes of Distance -- This Poem Was Always About Anger -- We Are Rolled in a Dog like a World -- The Blind De Soto -- My Student Writes of My Death -- Careful Singing -- Another Night Gets It In The End -- Mandelstam in Virginia -- Sunken Deadrise in an Estuary -- Whence I Came -- Small Wooden Elegy -- Lost Snail Song -- Plastic Coffee Cup -- Secret Snapshot -- The Girl Who Sailed Like Kites -- Asleep in the Lightning Fields -- Alcohol -- My Wife Drives The Car Through The Flower Bed While Going in Reverse: Part 1 -- Behind Maggie's Grocery -- I was a Teen-Age Summer Camp -- Kelvinator Moon -- Why My Garage Talks Slowly --
• Fire Sermon at a Burnt-Out Gas Station -- Missing a Piece of Praise -- What Entirely Light -- Black Secret Dog -- Night in the Desert During the Drought -- The Pretty Black Flower Dream -- Egg Bound Cowboy Blues -- I Left a Garage Behind Me -- Mumbling the Family Hymnal -- New Kitchen Gospel Music -- Push Mower Heavenly Body -- Gardening Provencal -- Why Bulbs in the Desert -- Clementine, My Pruning Shears -- How My Wife Saves the Day -- My Wife Drives The Car Through The Flower Bed While Going in Reverse: Part 2 -- Lullaby for a Young Road.

ISBN

1881515443 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2002005123

OCLC

• ocm49531140
• SCSB-4305952

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries