Research Catalog

Title

A slender grace : poems / Rod Jellema.

Author

Jellema, Roderick.

Publication

Grand Rapids, Mich. : William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., [2004], ©2004.

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Details

Description

xii, 116 pages; 23 cm

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

In the Red Sea : snorkeling off Basata -- Singing in the shower -- The replay -- Caribbean cruise : a letter (appeared as "Caribbean cruises") -- Herm Klaasen to himself -- Young man at the laundromat watching the spinning dryers -- Words take water's way -- The pineapple poem -- Think narrow -- Beneath the signals of the car pool radio, 1999 -- The potato eaters -- We used to grade God's sunsets from the Lost Valley Beach -- Travel advisory -- Letter to Lewis Smedes about God's presence -- Bicycle parts -- Still life waiting for something to start again -- Why I never take off my watch at night -- Getting the picture -- A sighting -- About the summer house -- The car in the snow -- Bix Beiderbecke composing light, 1927-1931 -- Cafe Lejano -- Green beans -- The color of his hunger -- San Carlos potable water in 1985 -- Frisian psalms, 1930 -- Reach -- Van Gogh, talking to himself ... -- Ice age -- Some of the Whats that are in a name -- A word in the glare -- Meditation on coming out of a matinee -- Nightrise from the observation deck of the World Trade Center -- Report from near the end of time and matter -- The potato eaters -- Think narrow -- Young man at the laundromat watching the spinning dryers -- Incarnal rhythm : a kind of counterpoint (original title : Playing it again) -- Bix Beiderbecke composing light, 1927-1931 -- In the dark -- Still life waiting for something to start again -- Why I never take off my watch at night -- Ice age -- Think narrow -- The pineapple poem -- The potato eaters -- Up from the Borinage : there for Vincent Van Gogh -- In North Brabant, 1927, a citizen remembers Vincent Van Gogh -- The potato eaters -- Van Gogh, talking to himself, echoes his letters while surveying his latest works -- In the Red Sea : snorkeling off Basata.

ISBN

0802827829 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2004053277

OCLC

• ocm55744742
• SCSB-5070314

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries