Research Catalog

Title

Farewell to the starlight in whiskey : poems / by Barton Sutter.

Author

Sutter, Barton, 1949-

Publication

Rochester, NY : BOA Editions, 2004.

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Details

Description

143 pages; 23 cm.

Series Statement

American poets continuum series ; no. 88

Uniform Title

American poets continuum series ; v. 88.

Contents

Sweet Jesus -- The new green -- Consider the lilies -- The daughter of the mother of invention -- The boy birch tree -- Sunday morning -- Peregrine -- Sunflowers -- Before supper -- Anniversary -- Nocturne -- An apple branch -- How the true work of true love truly begins -- Night fishing, Lake Polly -- A circle of rock -- Milk -- The necklace -- Yardwork -- Rose hips -- Reading the anthologies -- The rusty wheelbarrow -- Wordsworth! -- To the author of "I think continually of those who were truly great" -- To a vindictive editor -- Not sleeping at Bill Holm's house -- This -- Driving Kloefkorn to the airport -- Inverse letter to John Engman -- Back in the woods with George W. Bush -- Dick Cheney's heart -- The liberal media -- Flying the flag -- The president's prayer -- Jail time -- Captain Rummy, Henny Penny, Hammurabi -- The neocon con -- Apartments of the dead -- Mrs. Winters -- Dementia -- Wrong number -- Another country -- Block party -- Stress echo -- Sober song -- At Quaker meeting -- The old corral -- Icebreaker -- The thousand-foot ore boat -- Handyman -- Cocklebur -- Topsy-turvy bird -- Whistle dance -- October soccer -- Fall flowers -- Snow -- Lost river -- Jack pine -- Blowdown -- Solo -- Breakfast with pine marten -- A short story about loons -- The otters -- Dead gull -- Chickadee -- Animals glimpsed from the road -- Black bear among blueberries -- Yellow waterlilies on the Langley River -- Little Caesar -- Buddha's fool -- Stony River -- The underword -- Pike Lake lullaby.

ISBN

1929918577 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2004017341

OCLC

• ocm56066421
• SCSB-5115729

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries